Chef Fu 洞庭湖 — Restaurant in Monterey Park

Spicy beef noodle soup broth was really good!! Our kinda new favorite Chinese Restaurant (Hunan cuisine) in the MPK area. All the dishes were decent and super flavorful but not overly in any wrong way. Quality flavor.

Cauliflower dish, and the Intestine tofu dish are spicy! For those who like spicy (medium spicy lovers), it's good. But for mild to medium spicy eaters, it was barely doable but with tears and sinus changes. They said to ask them for light mild spicy (translate as small spicy) because maybe the app doesn't allow that choice? Note to self to order small flame/mild spicy next time for my sake.

Spicy beef noodle soup wasn't too spicy. Super great broth! Loved it!! Didn't feel too salty. It was packed with flavor. I would recommend this for anyone craving noodle soup. If you take this to go and leave it overnight, remember to separate the noodles and soup, or else the noodles will soak up all the soup...and leave you soupless haha Its a rare occasion we order beef night soup or carb items but was craving a Chinese noodle soup dish.

Pumpkin Pie dessert was like an air puff with thin flat mochi in the middle. They said no dairy is used but not not too certain if I trust that too much.

Looking forward to coming back and trying...

Liang pi is a cold noodle dish, that became a favorite dish of mine since trying at Xi’an Famous Foods in NYC several years back. I had a hard time finding it back when I was in Cali. But more than 20 restaurants have added it or opened up in the past few years.

I’ve been trying it in multiple places throughout LA, Alhambra, Arcadia...

Qin West’s is good. Not as good as Xi’an’s. And the one here at Liang’s / Cindy’s has better noodles than Qin West, but not as flavorful. Adding some vinegar definitely helped for me! To each his own.

The bamboo shoot side was excellent. I recommend you try those. I’m more speaking to non-Chinese patrons though.

We also got the hot lamb noodle soup. Good. Hearty. Very big for...

Food: 5 stars. The flavor and portion of the food are impeccable. My personal favorite is the cold dish bar, where you can get three combination with $6.99. The flavor of the cold dishes is amazing.

Cleanliness: 4 stars. The current rating from the authority is “B”, but it seems pretty clean inside and I have not had any problem with the food.

Service: 4 stars. The service is good but it has a minimum of $35 purchase for credit card payment, if you wanna pay with your card with less than $35, you’ll then have to pay a $0.75 fee.

Convenience: 5 stars. The restaurant is located in a small plaza and there are quite enough parking...