Old Chen Chinese Restaurant — Restaurant in Fremont

The selection is often wonderful, and the service is pretty good, too. The food is very well done, for the most part, but there is simply far too much preservative content added. It often ruins the meats' textures (especially the chicken), provides a moderate bother in the flavors, and in my own relative visit frequency over the last 12 years or so, it's been rare that I didn't have somewhat of a stomachache for a few hours afterward. It's not powerful, but not exactly pleasant, either.

Aside that, there's a small dessert buffet to the side. While most foods on it are easy to identify, there are some selections of sushi to the side which never have labels, and it becomes difficult to select any of the rolls if you're somewhat picky (if you're VERY picky, it becomes almost impossible). They're all very basic rolls which never have any sauces or meats or whatnot on the outside, so it's difficult to identify any without putting them in your mouth (and even then, they can be tricky). The only roll I've confirmed, myself, is crab.

The atmosphere is spectacular, though, in various ways, depending on the time of day and which day of the week. Midday hours are generally very well-lit by the sunlight and make for a sort of cheery refreshment, while late hours and low business effectively...

Update 2025: food good but won't eat here anymore because since covid they no longer have buffet, it is take out only, this makes it Very expensive when youre only feeding one or two people.. you have to order full orders of each item you like and most of it goes to waste or isn't very good reheated! To get all of the items I normally enjoyed eating in the buffet it is easily 70$. I miss the buffet! I assume they never brought it back because increased profits bc people have to order a whole container of each item. Atmosphere one because take out only is no atmosphere at all

2019-Very tasty, how ever I'd like to be able to have them deliver but when I tried this before they have hard time with directions and it took an hour to get here. Only 5 min. Away :( much needed interpreter at least for driving. I've chose to go other places because of it. But the food...

A pice of metal in my food with nothing more than a thanks thanks thank you for telling her.

I stopped in while I was in town visiting my girlfriend, I found a small piece of metal in my garlic chicken. I said something to the server and she thanked me 4 times and never asked it I was injured by the foreign object in my food, I stayed away for that dish and when I went to pay for our meals she never offed any discount for a meal that had a metal in it... I Normally don't leave bad reviews but between the metal in my food and the lack of taking it as serious as it is, I would never go back and eat there because I feel metal in food should be taken more seriously than it was taken by...