Indira Fouch
Lots of meat, even for lunch special, including soup and tea, for less than 20usd. Noodles are hand made and very yummy! Best Chinese food for amazing price! Aromatic chicken has veggies and a delicious sweet and spice taste. Can't recommend enough
Rani Tjugito
Traditional and authentic Chinese restaurant you can find near Seattle. The owner is Chinese and most meals can be modified to your taste buds. The owner and staff were super friendly and professional. The restaurant looks old, but it’s fairly clean for a Chinese restaurant. It’s been there at least for 20 years. This is our third time trying out this place, and the food is deliciously steady. Our favorite dish is the Shanghai noodles, you can ask to add spice to some of the dishes if you prefer spicy and hot. Overall, the food was delicious and the atmosphere is homey.
William Gao
I thought the food was okay, my gf really liked the char siu pork bun and soy milk she ordered. The mala beef I ordered wasn’t spicy (neither ma or la). Service was excellent, especially for a dim sum restaurant were folks are usually less than attentive. Atmosphere is very chatty and busy, similar to other dim sum restaurants but not where one would go for a quiet, dimmer atmosphere.
Traveling Wilterry
Food was exceptional, staff were very polite and attentive. Not happy about sitting near the kitchen but that is where the larger tables are. The crispy spicy beef was great. I love that there is a menu for both Chinese and English speakers
Aimee Shen
Food is so tasty, and portions are so big. Servers are friendly, and service is quick even though they are so busy. Parking is available for free.
Linda Chong
Probably one of the tastiest Chinese restaurant in the Seattle area. The exterior of the building is a little off putting as it’s not something you would drive by and think “I have to try that place.”
You have to get past the chaotic-no-wait-list-you-stand-in-line but the food is worth it.
Parking: yes but small lot.
Dog friendly: no
Family friendly: yes even though there is a sign that says no minor
FOOD:
DIMSUM MENU:
1. Fritters of twisted dough with shrimp: 2 star. no price as this was the hostess “recommendation.” I use this in quotes cause it wasn’t a suggestion, more like she’s telling us need to get it. Verbiage of the menu is kind of weird as most people know this as Chinese donuts or crueller. We agreed to get this mostly cause we had no idea what this was.
2. Baked cake wrapped with fritters of twisted dough and egg $7: 5 stars! This was like a massive hot pocket-sandwich. The “cake” is kind of like a less buttery puff pastry that flakes with sesame seed. It was sliced in half length wise and stuffed with 3-4 pieces of crueller and scrambled egg. Was probably the best thing and definitely worth the price.
3. Crispy biscuit wrapped with shredded turnip (2) $6: 5 star! This was actually really good but wish it was bigger or came with more pieces. The exterior was nicely pan seared and turnip was very tender and had great flavor tho a tad bit heavy handed with white pepper but I liked it!
4. Pan fried pork bun (3) $6.50: 3 star. It was decent - good sear on the bun but it was pretty small and the flavor was okay. The best part was the bun to meat ratio.
5. Pan fried leek bun (2) $4.00: 3 star. I think this was more like the garlic chive then leek. Similar to the pan fried pork bun but one less piece but cost less.
6. Steam chicken feet (Phoenix feet) $6.50: 5 Star! Holy hell these were really good! The feet most have come from some steroid chicken cause they were massive! The flavor, the sauce, and the perfect tenderness!!
REGULAR MENU:
1. Green onion pancakes $10: 4 star - these were not the tradition scallion type pancake were you had the scallion all over and you could see the swirl. This was more like scallions we’re packed into a dough ball and completely rolled flat then deep fried. Super crispy and hot which was nice to know it was fried to order.
2. Fried tofu $11: 3 star - they were okay. The best I’ve had so far is at King’s in Bellevue (but I think they’re now called Royal Kitchen). The menu just said “fried tofu” with no added description. So it wasnt the salt and pepper style or anything.. just deep fried tofu squares with some scallion bits.
RESTAURANT AND MENU:
For dimsum, they have a 1 pager, double sided, menu. The front page is more like Asian street food and the back page has more of the dim sum items. It was really confusing reading their dim sum menu because it’s not really dim sum and their description isn’t like how you’d find at other restaurants.
They have a full lunch/dinner menu as well. Hence why I broke up the food description so you know where to find it.
The restaurant is small, pretty tight with the number of booths and tables. The tables are all the larger style for big parties of 6 or 8 people.
Like most chinese restaurant, they don’t have a great entrance way/waiting area. They didn’t have a waiting list so there was just a bunch of us crowding in the door way in line. There wasn’t a separate line for to-go/pick up either. It was really confusing.
SERVICE:
They seemed understaff. I honestly felt bad for the workers because they were hustling when they were so busy yet so behind. We only really interacted with the hostess who also turned out to be the waitress taking our order. She’s provided typical Chinese customer service when you speak Chinese - she told us what we really wanted, judged what we ordered and made edits to our order without telling us lol
ニッコル猫
A really good place for traditional Shanghai-style breakfast. The 咸豆浆 油条 咸饭团 & 冰豆浆 are really good! We expected the咸豆浆 to have shrimp and seaweed in it, but it is still good!
A good reachable breakfast place! I would come back if I want to seat down to have some comfortable breakfast.
In comparison, tofu 101 might have better quality, but it’s a long drive, a long line, and you cannot seat down there.
Paxton Schwarz
I drove past it for years, not thinking twice about it. But after several visits it's become my favorite Chinese restaurant in the area. What it lacks in curb appeal, it makes up for with excellent food and reasonable prices. Highly recommended!
Emelina Wang
Authentic Chinese breakfast and great Shanghai dishes. I used to eat here when I was in UW. Today I went for breakfast. But they don’t have enough help today so the owner might be confused. I stood at the door and in front of two women came after me. These two women were clearly a regular here and they talked to the owner across me. So I didn’t want to be misunderstood and being forgotten, so I immediately talked to the owner that I need a table of two people. And the owner just asked me or the women behind me who come first. I felt insulted. I am literally stepped at the door step and these two people were behind me. But I still wanted my breakfast after a 30 mins drive, so I replied, it was me first. And that was the only thing this owner talked to me. She didn’t bring me menu, didn’t take my order, didn’t give me tea and didn’t check in even once. So I am a little confused with the comment about the friendly owner.
But besides that, everything just went well. I had to talk to the young waitress to get menu and place order. The breakfast is great. But I don’t recommend soy milk. I recommend Shanghai fried noodle, sweet rice roll with seaweed, and Chinese fried donut.
So, this experience was not perfect and I am sad because I heard the owner speak Shanghainese and I came from Shanghai, but I am apparently not welcoming here.
But this is still a good restaurant and I recommend it with a five stars because I couldn’t blame my own people.
S H
Chiang's did not disappoint, and I look forward to another visit!
Pictured: 1) Homemade noodles, ground pork & diced dried bean curd w/ bean paste sauce 炸酱面 2) Dry sautéed string bean w/pork 干煸四季豆 3) Pan-fried rice cake Shanghai-style上海炒年糕
Favorite was easily the rice cake since it is such a comfort food (if you like chowfun, get this); it had a light soy sauce flavor and not too oily; would definitely come back for this dish in particular. The zhajiangmian was an amazing stand-alone dish. The green beans were not spicy but still tasty. Price was reasonable since the portions were generous...excited for leftovers later. Also, the lunch menu is a bargain for the low price and big portions (saw other patrons enjoying this). It also sounded like there are some good vegetarian options.
Truc
Best Chinese food I’ve had in the area . We got the handmade steamed dumplings and noodles, Mongolian beef, and dry sauteed green beans. All delicious. Fast and friendly-enough service. Will make the 45 min drive just to eat here again.
Susy Kings
I order noodles and General Tso and noodles very good and authentic food.
I went earlier and it was packed.
I decided to come back later.
Pingguo Han
I didn't expect to be able to eat such authentic morning tea and provide a variety of snacks in Seattle. I recommend the beef pancake, which is crispy on the skin and sandwiched with large pieces of beef. It is very delicious. Salted rice balls and sweet rice balls are also very good. With freshly boiled soy milk to meet the happy needs of the day.
F. Tiffany
One of my favorites (if not, my favorite) Chinese restaurant in Seattle. The food never disappoints. Pictured are: five star chicken (best!!!), mongolian beef, string beans. It’s best to eat with at least 5 people or it can get pretty pricey.
Nikolai Ivanovich
Food: The food is DELICIOUS. It can definitely add up if you're not careful, but in my opinion the price is SO worth it.
Service: It's pretty good, we went during busy hours and it took approximately an hour to get our food, however the place was packed and the taste definitely makes up for that.
Atmosphere: Definitely a very loud and chatty type of place, lots of overlapping voices and oftentimes you see kids. If that doesn't bother you, you'll fit right in.
TLDR: Great place if you've got a bit of money to spend, I'd highly recommend doing your best to go at times when the place is not busy.
Kris
Chiang's has big plates of delicious Chinese food, and it is very affordable for what you get. There are a lot of options on the menu, but you can also choose a family style meal with preselected dishes if you just want to be brought food for about $15-$20 per person. We did the sechzuan dinner. It is a bit of an older building but the service was excellent and the food was great.
Aura Davis
Best Chinese food in the city I swear. The dim sum is amazing. The menu is a little hard to navigate but the wonton in hot and spicy sauce and spicy sauce and any of the baked cakes are amazing savory options. Fritters of twisted dough are so crispy it's incredible, and salted egg custard buns are a great sweet option.
Sam Strauss
Absolutely love this place. A ton of menu items that are not typical of Chinese American cuisine (I think it’s authentic Chinese but I don’t wanna say without knowing). The tea smoked duck and the spicy fried frog were both delicious and new and exciting. The building looks a little beat up, but the food is great.
Jackie Wong
My friend and I split salt and pepper fried chicken and zhajia mian, carried it over to Project 9 brewery, had enough leftovers for lunch! It was perfect. The noodles were so good - bouncy and fresh and really flavorful sauce.
G ER Rome
My favorite Chinese place in the city. It's a authentic, always packed, and damn delicious. Get the pan-fried noodles. Just do it. And the peanut tofu and scallion pancake are bangin' too. 100% recommend.
Dan Garlington
Dan & I joined many of our Memento Meal compatriots for a dinner out at Chiang's Gourmet - a Chinese restaurant with two menus: one for dishes familiar to the American palate, and one of less familiar dishes.
Gastrolust
Chiang’s Gourmet receives much fanfare, especially from folks on the northside who don’t want to travel to the International District or Bellevue for Chinese food. I’ve had brunch there and found it consistently, well, brown. Not bad, but as with all the
Hytyou
How did this restaurant get on best restaurant list?. This was absolutely the worst Chinese food I've ever eaten. Prawns were tiny, breaded and so over cooked I couldn't tell what they were supposed to taste like. Even the rice was bad. Terrible food.
Katie
I love this place. The Shanghai noodle is absolutely perfect, the triple chili lamb and the Szechuan crab are fantastic, nothing I've tried has ever been bad. Just plan ahead and don't use the restroom ;)
Jane Doe Eats
The dining room greeted me with a slightly depressing dinginess. The well worn crater in the chair forced me to perch on the edge, lest I slide uncontrollably into slump like a tiny child sitting at the grown-ups table, eyes barely peeking out above the plates. Thick white paper jutted out at harsh and uneven angles from underneath the lazy susan, protecting the white table cloth that covered the large round table. Service was delivered to the entire room of diners by a young, solitary waiter, drifting around us in a slow-motion, ultra-familiar auto-pilot. All the dishes were better than average, including appetizers of jellyfish and tendon, green noodles with pork and chicken, eggplant, dry cooked string bean, a plate of leek, squid specks of dried shrimp. Only bummer was the pepper chicken that was missing Sichuan peppercorns. I would return every day of the week based on what came out of their kitchen, but I cringe at the memory of their bleak dining room and that muffed-up old chair.
Craig Slits
Great authentic chinese food. Order off the authentic menu.<br/><br/>You get chastised for ordering the americanized menu.
BenW
Real Chinese food! Don't come here if you want white linen service and beautiful ambiance. This is the perfect Chinese restaurant -- they put money into the food versus what's hung on the walls and the napkins you use. This is authentic and well made Chinese food. Five star chicken, cold spicy beef, spicy fish noodle, Chinese brocolli with garlic, beef noodle soup are amoung my favorite. Family owned and operated -- support this place!
Marianne Petitt Chandler
The service was poor, I felt like we were inconviencing the staff. The ambience felt awkward. We ordered the Sechwan dinner for three. Very typical Chinese. But nothing outstanding. We won't be returning.
Jonas
No reason to recommend. Below average food, very poor service, etc. can't find any reason to recommend this restaurant to anyone who likes good Chinese food.
Fooddude
Excellent and Authentic. Have tried this place several times and will keep coming back. The dishes are all prepared well and are authentic. There are two menus, Americanized and Traditional. Try the traditional and you will not be disappointed. The beef tendon is awesome for an appetizer and the spicy pepper chicken is great too. Braised pork belly is incredible and the Pork with Yellow Leek and Tofu fantastic. <br/>There are enough "Tame" dishes for those that do not want spicy items like the Bean Curd Sheet Roll with Enoki Mushrooms and Gai Lan.<br/>Best North of the I-District Northern Chinese Restaurant.
AhoyAhoy
Five Star Spicy Hot Chicken. This is the best dish they have! So good! Not as spicy as the name would suggest, you MUST order it.
Andrew Purvis
My wife and I are on a once-a-month dim sum exploration of the greater Seattle area, and this was a wonderful find. The dishes are à la carte, rather than on a cart, but with some intuition and a little help from our server's suggestions, we went 5 for 5. The Shanghai style noodles were amazing. While I could run through everything, but just trust yourself and your server. You'll do fine and be satisfied.
PeterNBiddle
Totally loving that there are separate gwailo and native menus at Chiangs. Gwailo sample items: Mongolian beef, Moo Shoo pork, & Gen Chos chicken. Native items include fried pigs intestine, cattle tendon w/hot sauce (which I just ordered), and the true differentiator: odor tofu! Vying with Shanghai Garden as my favorite Chinese food in Seattle.
Saigon
Taiwanese Dim Sum on the weekends. If you want something different, try the dim sum on the weekends. I've had a lot of dim sum in my life, including in Hong Kong (where it claims to originate), but Chiang's offers Taiwanese style and it is radically different from what most people have had. Wow. There are no carts, just a menu with vague descriptions. We tried about 10 different dishes and loved every single one with each being entirely different than steam cart style dim sum. Seriously worth checking out. A long chaotic line can ensue and service can be spotty so go early or go after 1pm, when I noticed the crowd was thinning. We went at 11am and that was a huge mistake - a 30 minute wait and than another 45 minute wait at the table just to get our order in. I'd say don't go, if it wasn't for the food! We had forgotten all about it by the time we ate
Krista
Very Tasty and Authentic Chinese Food!. This is one of the best Chinese restaurants in Seattle! Next time you want authentic Chinese food, venture out of the Int'l District and come here. I have eaten here several times now, and have yet to be disappointed! If their awesome noodles are not your thing, ask for suggestions, the staff is always ready to recommend something tasty. I will be coming back here often!
Darthbunni
Go for the chewy pan-fried, handmade noodles!. Or pretty much anything else they have on the breakfast menu :)<br/>Everything is pretty much described as a "cake" or "biscuit" or "bun" but you can't go wrong with any of them. It's a lot of fun to order and explore, not really knowing what it was I'd end up with. Try the "baked cake wrapped with sliced beef stew", it's a crispy thin pastry folded around tender slices of five-spice stewed beef brisket. They also have the best "xiao long bao" I've had of any dim sum restaurant in the area.
The J Man
It's authentic, and you don't have to eke out parking in Chinatown. What else to be said?. For a long time, I'd come to loathe Chinese food. I associated it with the insipid chunks of mystery meat swimming in a gelatinous sauce that can be found at grocery store delis, and even more upmarket Chinese joints. PF Chang's did nothing to help. Fortunately for me, a riding buddy asked me one night, when we were raising hell on our sportbikes, where we could get some good Chinese food. I surmised Chinatown, so we headed down that way, annoying people in every neighborhood intervening. Following an excellent meal at a place called Ocean City involving dim sum and crispy fried duck, and a year later when my bike was no more, and parking not so easy, I was inclined to search for something similar but not in the bowels of downtown. I was directed toward Chiang's, and that same experience I had in Chinatown was replicated tenfold.<br/><br/>Every single item I've had has been nothing short of delicious, and I've made an attempt to have something new every time. Wasabi-spiked string beans with little bits of sausage, thinly shredded splinters of beef with a scorching but flavorful sauce, spicy fried scallops bursting with flavor, and maybe the most delicious dish of all, a casserole of chicken in sweet basil sauce. Wow! The menu is enormous and one will not be easily bored with this place. One oddity is the "odor tofu" whose name gave me a chuckle, but proved apt when the waitress walked by and for a split second, I assumed she had committed a gastric faux pas, only to realize what it was. The occasional bizarre entree is a small price to pay for such authenticity and flavor.
Fritz
Great authentic, not "American" Chinese. First try and loved it -- very authentic. We had pig intestine with blood cake, shanghai noodles, seaweed soup, lamb with cumin, and the jelly fish appetizer. Everything was so good!
Discobee
Authentic chinese breakfast/brunch. I'll go to Chiang's for some homestyle authentic chinese breakfast. The must-try items include: warm sweet soybean milk and you dip it with chinese doughnut....mmmmm (like a chinese cereal), the thin crispy sesame pastry with the scrambled green onion egg, oh soooooo good (like a chinese breakfast egg sandwich), the sweet rice rolls with the doughnut, sugar and peanut filling, yuuuuummmy (it's hard to describe this one but it's good!) and last but not least the handmade shanghai pan fried noodle with bits of pork(so full of flavor!).....remember that the chinese breakfast menu is only on Sat and Sun, so hurry and go this weekend!
LauraMac
My mistake.... I saw this tagged as Dim Sum and headed up there imagining the clanging of carts, steamy Har Cheung Fun, and a quick fix of sticky rice with pork and mushrooms wrapped in lotus leaves. I somehow forgot that dim sum is of Cantonese origin and the dim sum I was pining for was Hong Kong style. How could I be anything but disappointed in Chiang's "order off the dim sum menu" offerings?<br/><br/>That being said: Onion pancakes...YUM. Hot wanton in chili oil YUM. Actually, my mouth is watering again already for those pancakes....
Laurel Fan
Taiwanese breakfast!. I've been to the Renton location for Taiwanese breakfast... sweet or salty soy milk, yui tiau (literally "oil strip", kind of like a deep fried baguette), sesame biscuit things, tea eggs, etc. The breakfast menu might be only in Chinese. From when I was in Taiwan I learned that I know enough Chinese to order food but not very precisely.
Benny
Direct quote from the Seattle Times:. I've never eaten here, but the Seattle Times reviewer has:<br/>Crispy Pig's Intestine in Garlic and Hot Pepper: Soul-food lovers will delight in this Chinese version of chitterlings. The deep-fried intestines are chewy and come with a heavy dose of dried red pepper that cuts nicely into the intestines' richness.
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