Albert M.
Yelp
My favorite Chinese restaurant in California, by a long mile.
So I am biased, it's my hometown food. The place is very nice, busy, with the most extensive selection of cold dishes right when you walk in. That is where you start, just pick with your eyeballs, everything is simply amazing because this place is packed with Chinese people.
The place is clean, spacious, and fun. The service is super fast. The first dish will hit the table and make your head spin. The the next, and the next. I ordered 5 dishes and they all came with in 20 minutes. Unbelievable.
If you have not eaten Yunan food, try the rice noodles. It's served in a delicious chicken broth with veggies, tofu skins, chicken chunks, ham, and quail eggs. My sons has been eating this all their lives and they don't get tired of it, now they are in their 20's. I always orders the cured pork, that is what everyone ate back home, ordered it with leak or peppers, if you are from Spain or Italy, you know cured pork is king.
The dry pot beef has a ton of veggies seasoned with cumin, served over a fire box. It's tender and full of flavor.
Then the classic fish filet, lightly breaded fish over cabbage in a sea of chili!
Laoganma squid is an interesting trendy dish as well.
I will always bring my family here. They are so popular they just opened a second location in Alhambra!