Chef Chao Restaurant — Restaurant in Moraga

The absolute worst food experience ever. First it’s my first time in Moraga and I was starving! Had a flight from east coast that was delayed — so it was like 11 hours of a trip!!! could not eat indoors Bc my friend forgot their vaccine card — so we ordered to go. I ordered nearly 100 dollars worth of food! It was prepared in less than 15 minutes!!! HOW? There was absolutely no flavor NONE! It was absolutely inedible and outside of the fried rice, I couldn’t eat any of it! The phrase rice really wasn’t barely but cooked so it really wasn’t what I would call fried it was more like it just had a layer of oil on it!!! All of it was heavily breaded in a way that makes absolutely no sense! There was absolutely NO flavor whatsoever which tells me that this was food that had been from another day and they just heated it up quickly and threw it in a bag. I am so upset about it that I paid $100 for my first meal after a near 11 hour flight and there was no care whatsoever given to this food. They should not be in business and add to this that they don’t automatically include white rice with Chinese food which I guess that’s a thing here in California but that’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard in my life!! like HOW?! can you live with yourself at night you don’t include white rice as part of the meal? add a dollar or two to the cost and put some white rice in with your food please. It was truly the worst experience imaginable and I just can’t understand it because it had very high ratings. There is no way they prepared food fresh for us there is just absolutely no way this was yesterday’s food . My first meal of the new year! I should not have paid a dime for that food and honestly it should be...

Spent $192 on a takeout order, they wanted us to prepay before making, didn’t go over the order because it was “too long” for them to recite (the cashiers words), went to pick up at the allotted time, they handed me 2 bags of food, didn’t go over the order (again), I asked for a receipt, they gave me a receipt with just the total cost on it, not itemized, came home, missing 2 pork orders (2 of each, so 4 boxes total), the orange chicken and lemon chicken ordered tasted the same, the only difference is they put lemon slices on the “lemon chicken”, had a plate with a scoop of rice and a scoop of veggies (which was not ours and it just looked like someone’s leftovers), called them to talk and get the rest of the pork order, the cashier said they were closing and to call and speak to the manager the next day. It has been 3 days and nothing has been made right. Never...

Johnny, Kenny, Amy and the gang make dining here special. It's like the local diner in most small towns across America only they serve House Special Chow Mein not meatloaf.

Every dish is solid, maybe not knee buckling, but solid. Won Ton and Sizzling Rice soups are great. The salt and pepper pork chops are a must and I'd suggest Beef Chow Fun with black bean sauce. Spicy tofu-eggplant is a newer favorite (last 5 years) and the Black Pepper Prawns and Green Beans are a kids hit.

If you like sweet and sour pork and spicy orange chicken you won't be disappointed but you better order 2 cause they tend to get a lot of attention from guests of all ages.

If you are in a pinch ask what Dean usually orders and they help you out. Shoot, just ask the nearest Asian dude and it will probably be me. For a small sample, I'm always...