Ding How Restaurant — Restaurant in Davis

There’s some variation in food quality on a day to day, but if you catch them on a good day, you won’t be able to get a better Chinese takeout meal in Davis. As someone who has lived in Hong Kong and whose family is from there, this is my favorite Cantonese-style American Chinese restaurant in Davis. Their chow mein is such a comfort with good wok hei. I also love their orange chicken with real mandarin peel in the sauce. Like any restaurant, if you go in ordering the wrong stuff, you won’t get the most out of your meal. Sweet and sour pork lunch special is solid — more moist and flavorful that the chicken counterpart. The lunch specials in general are such a great deal. I love that we can dine-in again because I enjoy getting a hot & sour soup with my meal. Skip their mapo tofu and west lake soup if you’re looking for something more traditional (they’re not done correctly here). Get to know which chef you like and try to order on the days that they’re working. For the dishes that are tasty, there isn’t a better place in Davis for them. Service is stern, but good. That’s how a classic Asian restaurant operates. I don’t pay money for warm and fuzzy vibes; I pay for the food. That being said, I enjoy dining in. The restaurant interior is calm and relaxing. Bonus: They have an EXTENSIVE vegan menu that includes a plethora of imitation meats (similar to the kind you often find in Asian Buddhist monasteries). It’s a hidden...

Sigh. I want to love this restaurant. This place does have an expansive vegetarian and vegan menu, and the dishes I've tried tend to be quite tasty. However, three times now I've gotten meat in my order despite ordering vegetarian items. One time was probably a misunderstanding (mistaking a veggie soup with the meaty version), but the other times were obviously due to a lack of cleanliness and/or attentiveness (scraps of meat in the item - they didn't mistakenly make a meaty version, they just didn't clean the wok). It's disappointing that the restaurant with the "best" vegetarian menu in town has such low standards. I can't recommend this place.

Also, one of the waiters tends to reek of cigarettes. As in, that smell dominates all others when you're within 6 feet of him. Really puts a damper on your appetite when he brings your food. Or when he passes by your table. The service is not great in other ways, which I typically don't mind for a hole-in-the-wall place like this, but that odor is...

I love to support small family owned restaurants and was in the neighborhood with my daughter and needed to grab some food. We stopped by between lunch and dinner. The atmosphere reminded me of stepping back to 1999. We were the only ones in the restaurant and the service was very slow. We enjoyed watching YouTube shorts on the dining room t.v. with the employee's children who were watching t.v. and in the restaurant during summer break. That did not bother us at all. However, the food was disappointing. The hot and sour soup was good but the friend rice was the worse I have ever had. It smelled burned and spoiled. My daughter and I tasted it and could not continue eating it. The honey walnut shrimp was delicious. I am not sure if the rice was leftover and they tried to re-cook it or if the wok they cooked it in was burned already. If they improve their food, I would give them a...