Chinese Food Costa Mesa/Irvine?

[Katy Nicholls]

Hi!

I am looking for a yummy Chinese Food Restaurant in the Irvine/Costa Mesa area. I will be in/around Von Karman. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in Advance!
Katy

[Michael Palero]

http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=ch ... s=1&rpp=40

What are you looking for? Canto? American Style Chinese food? Something more authentic? Dim Sum? Noodles? Hong Kong Style?\

[Michael Palero]

http://www.okidokirestaurant.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Oki Doki Restaurant Costa Mesa looks interesting

http://www.yelp.com/biz/oki-doki-restaurant-costa-mesa" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Robert Puertas]

Hey Katy,

Sam Woo's is just a block away from where I live in Irvine:

http://www.samwooirvine.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It's one of those big traditional dining room places.


If you're feeling brave, I prefer this small and slightly scary place in Fountain Valley, called Foo Wing Low:

http://www.letseatoc.com/info/fuwinglow.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

If you go, tell Kenny I said hi!

[Katy Nicholls]

Thanks for the suggestions guys. All of them look very good.

Katy

[Greg Peng]

I vote for Sam Woo's if it's like the Sam Woo's in other parts of the Los Angeles area.

[Max Hayter]

Outback?

[Mako Koiwai]

ROFL ... Max love all foreign food as long as it's Rack of Lamb, au juice on the side

[Mike Simanyi]

It's certainly not *traditional* Chinese, but Pei Wei is in The District at Jamboree and Barranca... just around the corner from K1!

They offer the option of brown rice with their entrees, and the prices are incredibly reasonable. You can eat there for about $2 more than Baja Fresh.

Mike

[Mako Koiwai]

Henry and I recently finished a Panda Express commercial ... for their new Sweet and Spicy Chicken ... developed by "traditional" chinese chefs. Looks good ... we didn't get to taste it.

Panda Express ... probably near you/Costa Mesa and Irvine ...

New ones not "up" yet.

Here are the last couple of shoots ... the food shots and head gear elements: (their real development chefs doing the wok flips)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6WENRZj ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoYsy5xfBrw&NR=1

[Lily Liu]

Henry and I recently finished a Panda Express commercial ... for their new Sweet and Spicy Chicken ... developed by "traditional" chinese chefs. Looks good ... we didn't get to taste it.

wasn't that good in my opinion. It wasn't bad either though, more like what you'd expect from Americanized Chinese food.

"Dirty" Chinese restaurants serve the best Chinese food IMO.

[Bob Beamesderfer]

Henry and I recently finished a Panda Express commercial ... for their new Sweet and Spicy Chicken ... developed by "traditional" chinese chefs. Looks good ... we didn't get to taste it.

wasn't that good in my opinion. It wasn't bad either though, more like what you'd expect from Americanized Chinese food.

"Dirty" Chinese restaurants serve the best Chinese food IMO.

One of my former Times' bosses used to go to Chinatown and order without a menu. Chicken's feet and the like. Glad I never accompanied him.

[Michael Palero]

One of my former Times' bosses used to go to Chinatown and order without a menu. Chicken's feet and the like. Glad I never accompanied him.

I never developed a taste for chicken feet. It reminds me of baby hands

[Greg Peng]

Chicken feet you can probably get from most dim sum places. The taste of the chicken feet is fine since it's all sauce. But feeling the texture of that loose bumpy skin on your tongue and watching the foot being dissected in stages from being fully intact to just the bone is too much for me to handle.

[Lily Liu]

Chicken feet you can probably get from most dim sum places. The taste of the chicken feet is fine since it's all sauce. But feeling the texture of that loose bumpy skin on your tongue and watching the foot being dissected in stages from being fully intact to just the bone is too much for me to handle.

Tender and juicy. YUMMMMMMMMMMM

All this chicken feet talk is making me think of a bunch other Chinese foods that would gross most people out. Me so hungly now

[Michael Palero]

Me so hungly now

:unimpressed:

[Steve Towers]

There is a P.F. Chang's in the Irvine Spectrum.

[Mako Koiwai]

We were filming in a popular chinese restaurant in China Town/LA. Kitchen REALLY was filthy. Our Fire Inspector said that's the way most of them are ... but you're right ... those are the best ones!

[Max Hayter]

[Michael Palero]

We were filming in a popular chinese restaurant in China Town/LA. Kitchen REALLY was filthy. Our Fire Inspector said that's the way most of them are ... but you're right ... those are the best ones!

Filth is inversely proportional to tastiness.
For Korean restaurants, replace "filth" with "service."

[Jason Flores]

http://www.okidokirestaurant.com/

Oki Doki Restaurant Costa Mesa looks interesting

http://www.yelp.com/biz/oki-doki-restaurant-costa-mesa" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

GO here its good..call and check hours before you go...if you have time there is a climbing gym 2 blocks from it!!!

[Jason Flores]

I vote for Sam Woo's if it's like the Sam Woo's in other parts of the Los Angeles area.

Sam Woo and Irvine should not be said in the same sentence...too bad they are nothing like their LA counter parts..

[Mako Koiwai]

Noodle World is fun ... LOTS of Variety ... we've got three up here ... none down there:

http://www.noodleworld.com/

What thinks Palero ... have you tried them?

[Aaron Goldsmith]

We were filming in a popular chinese restaurant in China Town/LA. Kitchen REALLY was filthy. Our Fire Inspector said that's the way most of them are ... but you're right ... those are the best ones!

Filth is inversely proportional to tastiness.
For Korean restaurants, replace "filth" with "service."

Why do you need service when you're cooking the food yourself?

[Aaron Goldsmith]

I vote for Sam Woo's if it's like the Sam Woo's in other parts of the Los Angeles area.

Sam Woo and Irvine should not be said in the same sentence...too bad they are nothing like their LA counter parts..

Well, there's always the 'ol Seafood Paradise in Westminster if Dim Sum is a must.