Chan Kee — Restaurant in Diamond Bar

Overall, may come back again but won't recommend it to anyone (& definitely won't order the porridges to-go because it's overpriced.)

Price went up since the "soft opening". I only like their rice porridges and usually visit them early in the morning, because my experiences visiting them around noon (on a weekday!) weren't great and people left plenty of leftovers on the table during those visits. I'd say their rice porridge is worth the try in the restaurant, because the sauce/side dish bar is only available for dine-in customer. didn't try anything outside of the porridges combo though.

Tried most of their teas. Water quality was bad during the soft opening. My last visit was back to see if they took my advice and installed a purifier, and I see the purifier was installed on a poster. xD when I asked for a water with no ice (because the "free"water available in the sauce bar is tainted with lemon. I was bluntly refused.

If they did install and use a water filtration system, the quality is not up by much (based on lemon water available in the lobby). Sauce bar usually is missing some ingredients no matter when I come.

Never really expected a Chinese restaurant with good service, so believe the reviews of bad service but take it with the grain of salt, because they just don't know what is good service. BTW, didn't see any of those who provide good service during the soft opening.

Service is a hit and miss during all visits. They replaced the front desk worker with machine. The guy who made tea were nice and came over when he sees me taking my time with the machine (it's before 8am and no one is behind me). But that middle-aged lady who bluntly refused my request for water was not only rude but also refused to speak English. So keep that in mind if you don't speak Cantonese remembering. This is a " authentic" Chinese restaurant.

Giving my preference for early breakfast and love for the rice porridges, I may settle and come back again. My last visit greatly reduced the chance tho.

p.s. plastics utensil is not very environmentally friendly.

p.s.2. for those who didn't know that CA is one of those states that pays minimum wage for all workers including waiters and waitresses, CA pays STATE min. wage to them all. Tip-flation should be considered in pricing as this restaurant is obviously including the tips in their pricing. So if you included tips (which they told you no need to tip 'extra' properly because it's included), the pricing is average. But given the service received and the fact people probably didn't know about the tip-flation and the tip option is still available, it's...

#update finally they have abalone porridge after couple visit here. This time my mom secretly pay the bill and the server put the tips on the bill and my mom, she do not understand that, so she give the tips again. After paid, she ask me is tips on the bill is the same with the one we leave it on the table? So after litte conversation and check the bill. We found my mom paid the whole bill including tips and she give tips again from the total bill. We did not ask the tips back, what we want just their honest. At least they tell the bill is including tips or some other way. When i ask they just said its write in there. Well my mom 79years old and she did not grew up in here so she not really understand. Well i hope they not try to take advantage from old people.btw our party is 4 adult and 2 kids......so i take 1 star down#old review #Small place, good food, afforable price. 1 order poridge can feed up to 4 people. We ordwe fish poridge. Wonton soup pretty good. Chinese doughnut too much oil. So we squezee with tissue and cut it by ourself. Yes we bring our own siczzor 🤣. Keep try abalone poridge but their always out of order. Do not if true or not. They said come back in 2 day..and still out of order. Pork with resevative vegetable nodlle is a no no for us. Meat is hard, cover in red sauce and very sweet. Bacisally...

Great deal on the AYCE under $25 per person! You can pick whatever your tummy desires from the menu, with over 60 + items, and enjoy the made-to-order food. We started with tease/ light appetizers- rice noodle, fish shumai, takoyaki, fried chicken leg, clamsside up fried eggs then moved to carbs- friend rice, Chan's famous congee, hong kong style stried friend egg noodle, beef stew, shrimp wontons, followed by hand dipped shrimp tempura, edmame, fried scallops, fried oyster, Japanese sake clams and much more. Finished strong with house special ell rolls and a scoop of ice cream. I loved how Chan Kee adjusted the food portion to each order, since we have 3 people in the party, they would offer either 3 pcs of a small protion of the order, they want use to try everything on the menu, and not try to feed us with flavorless carbs. Our favorite item for the night was fried chicken legs; it had crispy skin, but the meat was juicy. Shrimp wontons with nothing but shrimp, we loved it so much and ordered twice. Sake clams were very fresh and flavorful! The AYCE does have a time limit of 100 minutes per visit, but it is still enough time for you to fill your tummy! We do plan to visit again and try the other items that we didn't try...