No.1 Chinese Food — Restaurant in Costa Mesa

this is not an exaggeration. This is definitely not an ad although I guess you could take it that way but I'm not paid by these people at all this place has been in the corner of the shopping mall on Fairview and Baker for just about as long as I can remember and for my money there's only one other Chinese food place that I would even consider going because I consider this the best Chinese food place in the entire world. now that's saying something the only other option I would say is Lucky Chinese which is in Huntington Beach off of Ellis. highly highly recommended everyone is so nice there and so sweet. I'm pretty sure it's a family operation and the young girl that works there man I've been working up the courage to ask her out forever. Not like she's super intimidating or anything but I'm a white dude and she obviously is not super Americanized they came across bad she is an amazing English speaker and extremely polite but the whole cultural thing might be a problem LOL so if you meet her can you just do me a favor and not ask her out? I want my chance LOL seriously though go to this place oh my God everything they make is the best the only thing I could say is not the best change through the world but it's still incredibly good in the above 9 out of 10 range is the Chow mein noodles and fried rice simply the chow mein which is a little bit thin everything is so delicious though who...

I typically don’t leave reviews but I was so upset about this experience I felt it would be wrong not to.

I originally ordered from No. 1 on uber eats and was disappointed with my first order. The flavor was decent but the sauce was extremely watery. Because of this I decided to give them a 2nd chance.

Today I went in person and ordered from them face to face. I explained about my last order and specially requested they make the sauce thicker and complimented the original flavor profile.

Upon checkout they had me take a quick look and from the 2 second glance I had, it looked fine. When I got home I realized that all the water was settled at the bottom. Google won’t let me upload a video but when I tell you this food is swimming. On top of that it is super bland and doesn’t even have the decent flavor profile I originally complimented. You can’t taste garlic at all.

Not only am I disappointed, hungry, and out $14… I feel disrespected like they played in my face. I will never order from them again and I warn the rest of you to think twice before...

We order from here all the time but this will be the last time we order. We ordered online and received the wrong plates. After calling the restaurant, I was yelled at for causing a scene and if I wanted to right food I should come in instead of ordering online. Not only was I refused a refund but the owner wouldn’t even send the right food over after I spent $60 after tipping my driver and online delivery fees. He claimed the delivery driver was at fault because he plated our food? Come on man, just take responsibility. The food here ain’t even that good, we order cause it’s cheap. Cheap food = bad service + low quality food. Find a...