China House — Restaurant in Oakdale

Last week on the way back from Yosemite late evening, we're hungry and wanted to have dinner before getting home late. We searched on the map and we found this restaurant in Oakdale. It's in a huge parking lot that is easy to find a space, it was a Friday and quite a few people in the restaurant, good sign. This seems to be a family owned restaurant, the 2 brothers seem to take care of everything from busting the table to serving. They're both quite pleasant and attentive. Looking at the menu, the prices are quite reasonable, every dish is under $18. We're hungry and tired so we ordered the wor wonton soup to start, our favorite Chinese soup, we got the medium but quite large for both of us since we wanted to order something else. The soup is quite tasty although the color of the soup isn't as clear as other restaurant, the wontons are over cooked and the skin are falling off the meat, everything else is good. Mu Shu pork: it came with 5 chinese tortilla, quite large, a little thick but eatable, the stir fried ingredients are quite flavorful. It's also huge, I think it's intended for 5 people as appetizer. Beef Chow Fun (dry) which we like, came out very good and the portion is also big. It looks like we're going to take a whole bunch home. The Sizzling combo plate is quite sizzling and very tasty, but we could only try a few bites because we're full. This restaurant is quite amazing for the area. We're glad we found this place, everything is inexpensive and quite excellent. Next time if we go to Yosemite, we...

Gross garbage... Should have taken a hint when I went in the restaurant and the place smelt of burning food. I have been to a lot of Chinese resturants. Good and bad. Even the worst of them the food is usually edible. The honey walnut shrimp was fine, the hot and sour soup was good.. (best thing in the order) the broccoli beef was edible, Not good, pretty bland but edible. However the orange chicken was tough / chewy, bland and tasted like fish for some reason. The spicy garlic chicken was chewy, burnt, bland, NOT spicy, and.... Tasted Like Fish. Seriously don't fry your chicken in the same pan as your Tilapia. It was very clear that the food we got was old and reheated... Most likely multiple times. And yet way overly expensive. We spent $80 on the worst meal we have had in a long time. We ate the walnut shrimp, hot and sour soup and some of the broccoli beef. Threw away the other half of the broccoli beef, all of the spicy garlic chicken and the orange chicken. Could have gone to Panda Express. Paid half the money for more food and actually been able to eat all of of it.

Most of the Chinese resturants I have been to cost less and provide a far...

Great friendly customer service with food to match, This was a very delightful food stop from the suggestion of a few locals. I was really amazed that you found a restaurant that serves fresh bao buns, They were steaming hot, fresh and just a delight from the normal Asian fair foods you would normally find. I really appreciate it my conversation with the gentleman up front he was very helpful and suggested a few dishes with one being the cashew chicken that I chose. The food was hot, fresh and worth the wait. If you are a person who's in a rush my suggestion to you would be either to dine in or order ahead as they are fast but orders come in fast and furious. This is a restaurant that's definitely worth additional visits in the future and I'm happy that I took a suggestion from the locals.

Pro tip If you are there doing lunch hours, check out the lunch menu as they have great deals on so many...