Uncle Wong's — Restaurant in El Cerrito

I have been eating here off and on for about ten years. I have had bad service a couple of times, but this time I am done. The couple of times I did have bad service my food was less than subpar. One time I asked for chicken breast and received a fatty questionable meat and the other my fried rice was over cooked. This time I called and asked for bbq pork fried rice, then I said nevermind give me chicken breast but I remembered the bad experience I had with the chicken and asked for shrimp because you can't mess up shrimp. When I got to the restaurant to pick up my food. I said hi, I'm here for the shrimp fried rice. The lady at the counter said, are you sure you want shrimp fried rice. I laughed but she did not. Seemingly bothered. So I continued to talk about why she said that to the cashier which cut me off by saying..that will be $9.10 ....so I paid and also said to her that was rude, I was talking to you. Then she just turned and walked away. When she brought me my food I noticed it was in a smaller than usual to go box. So I asked of the size had changed and she began to snap at me. So of course I asked for my money back. I will never eat here again. Rude for the last time. The food here isn't very good anyway. I urge you not...

Dinning room appear to be leftover from covid and being used for storage really only to go food.

Fried wonton was just that. Came with sweet n sour but had a weird taste. We fell for this thinking it was like crab rangoon without meat.

Eggrolls were small like a spring roll for almost 8 bucks for 4 a bit over priced.

Mo shu pork needed less mushroom parts and cabbage with more pork. Tortillas was a real tortilla not a rice paper tortilla like we would expect. There was a sauce appeared to be hosin but was weird tasting and jelly like icky.

The other items snow peas with prawns were just so so and the meal with veggies and seafood was just so so too. Sesame chicken sauce was weird.

It was also odd that for the price the meals did not come with a rice option we ordered pork rice rice and that was good.

You could see the food was freshly prepared.

Spent $100 and just not...

An american chinese restaurant, that is unable to deliver the basics

Very Good: hunan beef (slices of beef surprisingly fried in a ginger orange beef style sauce... Not at all what I was expecting but very good and crunchy)

Good: Mu Shu pork (This does not have the classic taste of mushu but it is chock-full of fresh veggies and oddly paired with thinly sliced barbecue pork which works fine though especially when you just want some nice crunch.)

Very bad: General tsos chicken (don't judge, I figured that if I was ordering American Chinese food I should get it... It was horrible, it's embarrassing when a guilty pleasure like this is not done well)

Uncle Wongs Chow Mien: Once again it's pretty shocking to have a simple noodle dish like this done so poorly. I've had better bland chow mein in Midwestern malls. Bland, brown, and greasy with really awkward cuts of meat...