Tai Ping Sa Choi Kee — Restaurant in La Puente

Major selling point of authentic taste, and that promise was mostly delivered.

Three dishes are excellent, better than anywhere else, and will return for more: Shredded chicken has very good texture and excellent flavor. No ginger dip provided because it's already mixed in. Beef offal has sweetbread (pancreas ) , tripe and stomach. Very good flavor and good sauce. Lamb hotpot is very good to excellent, miso dip will persuade people who don't like the lamby gamey to love it.

Three are recommended, but similar could be available elsewhere : Stir fry pork liver has good temperature control resulting in good texture, but the sauce is a little heavy for my taste. Long beans with minced pork was good to fair. Hot pot rice was fair. Good flavor but I want more crispy burnt rice at the bottom.

Only dish I don't recommend is the noodles in Peking sauce. The flavor was off, not what I expected.

Also tried beef offal rice noodles soup. Good to very good. And the serving is huge. Best buy.

The steamed egg white desert is fair to good. Not too sweet.

The chef has a tendency for bigger flavors. Perfect for anyone who does not like blandness. Overall strongly...

there are several reasons I will only be giving this place 1 star (pitty i cant give it a zero).

i ordered pork kidney on rice and the kidney came out bloody and raw. when i complained about it the response is this is how we eat it in canton. i don't care how you eat your food in your own city but here i would like my food cooked properly. i have never heard you can eat pork raw anywhere in the world.

what really annoyed me was when we left without leaving a tip (we are tourist and sometimes forget about the tipping thing in America) the owner/cook ran out screaming at the top of his lungs, shouting at us for not leaving a tip. to be fair i honestly forgot but even if i didn't i would be very reluctant to leave a tip for a dish i hardly touched. my friend gave him some money to avoid any confrontation because he saw i was getting angry.

i stayed in america for 1 month, ate out for a whole month and this is by far the worst restaurant i visited. I'm surprised the health department haven't shut this...

After poking at the old stomping place to see what's left after COVID, this is still there and it's very good for a quick meal. The plaza is desolate and this is the only place with customers. Front end shui mei wasn't what it was before. Fish ball shop for what it is at doubled the price tag from before COVID and the menu price floats with tagged on fees. Unbelievable! Walked away from that. Choi Kee staff speak Cantonese and Mandarin fluidly and cover old fashion non fusion stuff. Beef innards called as I smell it in the air so had to get one. $8!!! First bowl had some portion challenge but it was adequate, but over-done it by ordering a second. Why not? It was a very authentic street vendor taste. Tree huggers please look elsewhere as all dining ware were disposable. Couldn't eat anything else after that so couldn't tell you more. Sat in the "mall" isle. This shop was doing okay with the amount of steady customers on a Sat lunch. Highly recommend avoid the restroom as it shares...