Good food, a little expensive for the fare they offer!
Karina Lorenzana
Good Chinese food. Can’t go wrong here if you’re experiencing a craving for something.
Zhijian Jiang
Food is really good.
Po Chiu
Very good foods. I live the roasted duck very much.
Ilya e
If you are looking for upscale Chinese restaurant at affordable price, this is the place! This hidden gem located on water front with majestic view. The food definitely on another level, with presentation and taste incomparable with anything else I've tried. Come at lunch time a get the taste of their signature dishes for half dinner prices. Must have dish: Chicken and mushrooms with XO souce!
Lina M
Not like it used to be. Quality down, prices up. Overseasoned noodles $16 with little meat and veges. I've been coming here for the last 10 years but time to find a new place.
Zhi Fan
I don't know what happened. It used to be my favorite place to have authentic Cantonese food, now it's completely off. Probably not going back.
Urvi Kolhatkar
Horrible food, went for an authentic Chinese food experience. Food quality was really bad, chicken was stale and chewy. Taste was truly bad by all means. Total waste of $36 for two dishes. Never going here again.
Austin Wang
Oh my God. From 626/socal. First Chinese restaurant in bay area that I've tried that was worth while after being here for 4 years! Definitely returning. I got the 1) roasted duck, 2) beef brisket egg noodles soup, and 3) the crab tofu soup. 1) the roasted duck had amazing, in depth flavor that blew my mind. 2) beef brisket noodle soup - decent beef flavor and beef was tender. Soup and noodle was good. 3) crab tofu - holy cow! There were huge, generous pieces of crab that you can actually taste. One was as big as my finger! Great, perfect flavor. This restaurant is highly recommended!
Herman Lee
The salt and pepper pork was almost all fat. No apology; just offered to substitute with chicken wings (qty.4) for a table of 10 people.
All the old delicious dishes disappeared. Won't go there anymore.
Thomas Nash
New ownership appears to have killed this place. It had been one of our favorites in the Bay Area. Today, bbq pork belly was tough and nothing like the traditional quality here, shrimp wontons had small amount of overcooked shrimp, poor wrapping, and a soup that tasted of fish flakes but not a decent stock, and ghastly XLBs with tough doughy wraps and tasteless filling. This is very sad. Service was better than it used to be, but the place was empty not packed at lunch as it used to be. Very very sad.
kgv2828
Cooking Papa is one of my favorite go to restaurants when I need my fixing of Cantonese-Hong Kong food. They recently underwent a change of ownership in April and unfortunately the food has gone down hill. It may be due to the fact that they are still trying to pull it together. The menu has shrunk significantly with many of my favorites dishes gone. Other favorite dishes have been simplified with key ingredients removed and with that the flavors have taken a hit. An example was my won ton-sui gow noodles. This came with a lots of vegetable, plenty of won ton and sui gow with a tasty soup base and nominal noodles. Now it is just won ton with a lot of noodles, some vegetables and a bland soup base. To compound things, they have raised the prices by about 10% to 12%. So at the end of the day, you are getting less tasty food, less variety and having to pay more. If you absolutely need a Cantonese meal, this may be your only choice but this is no longer my go to place. Maybe in time they will sort things out and realize that the old Cooking Papa had a winning formula. It will be a while before I come back.
604eileenp
Looking for a dim sum experience we went for a quick lunch to Cooking Papa. We were Sent to a table next to the window with a beautiful view but “Sorry” removed 2 min later as a client had been offered that table. We ordered a dim sum appetizer ( the only one available) and two dishes. Clay pot Chicken and eggplant and meat chow fun. Chicken was loaded with fat skin and the beef chow fun was greasy. I cant say Service was excellent so I would only miss a nice view of Edgewater and my lunch partner in Foster City.
EstnetKualaLumpur
Quite a shock to see new menu, prices up about 30% and lots of new faces. Place was pretty empty at lunch (usually full) and now I know why. Food was terrible! No relation to how it was for the last few years. Many items no longer on menu, a dessert "signature" dish was "not available". Apparently new owner and ?new chefs (or maybe they kept the ones who couldn't cook?). So sad - had 4 different dishes - ones with meat had huge bones and gristle and almost no meat (for $18), portions were ridiculously small (eggplant dish was about the size of a small eggplant for $16ish) - which I guess was alright since the food was mostly tasteless. Used to be a go to place - now it's a "I won't be back" place :(
Good food, a little expensive for the fare they offer!
Good Chinese food. Can’t go wrong here if you’re experiencing a craving for something.
Food is really good.
Very good foods. I live the roasted duck very much.
If you are looking for upscale Chinese restaurant at affordable price, this is the place! This hidden gem located on water front with majestic view. The food definitely on another level, with presentation and taste incomparable with anything else I've tried. Come at lunch time a get the taste of their signature dishes for half dinner prices. Must have dish: Chicken and mushrooms with XO souce!
Not like it used to be. Quality down, prices up. Overseasoned noodles $16 with little meat and veges. I've been coming here for the last 10 years but time to find a new place.
I don't know what happened. It used to be my favorite place to have authentic Cantonese food, now it's completely off. Probably not going back.
Horrible food, went for an authentic Chinese food experience. Food quality was really bad, chicken was stale and chewy. Taste was truly bad by all means. Total waste of $36 for two dishes. Never going here again.
Oh my God. From 626/socal. First Chinese restaurant in bay area that I've tried that was worth while after being here for 4 years! Definitely returning. I got the 1) roasted duck, 2) beef brisket egg noodles soup, and 3) the crab tofu soup. 1) the roasted duck had amazing, in depth flavor that blew my mind. 2) beef brisket noodle soup - decent beef flavor and beef was tender. Soup and noodle was good. 3) crab tofu - holy cow! There were huge, generous pieces of crab that you can actually taste. One was as big as my finger! Great, perfect flavor. This restaurant is highly recommended!
The salt and pepper pork was almost all fat. No apology; just offered to substitute with chicken wings (qty.4) for a table of 10 people.
Restaurantji Recommends
All the old delicious dishes disappeared. Won't go there anymore.
New ownership appears to have killed this place. It had been one of our favorites in the Bay Area. Today, bbq pork belly was tough and nothing like the traditional quality here, shrimp wontons had small amount of overcooked shrimp, poor wrapping, and a soup that tasted of fish flakes but not a decent stock, and ghastly XLBs with tough doughy wraps and tasteless filling. This is very sad. Service was better than it used to be, but the place was empty not packed at lunch as it used to be. Very very sad.
Cooking Papa is one of my favorite go to restaurants when I need my fixing of Cantonese-Hong Kong food. They recently underwent a change of ownership in April and unfortunately the food has gone down hill. It may be due to the fact that they are still trying to pull it together. The menu has shrunk significantly with many of my favorites dishes gone. Other favorite dishes have been simplified with key ingredients removed and with that the flavors have taken a hit. An example was my won ton-sui gow noodles. This came with a lots of vegetable, plenty of won ton and sui gow with a tasty soup base and nominal noodles. Now it is just won ton with a lot of noodles, some vegetables and a bland soup base. To compound things, they have raised the prices by about 10% to 12%. So at the end of the day, you are getting less tasty food, less variety and having to pay more. If you absolutely need a Cantonese meal, this may be your only choice but this is no longer my go to place. Maybe in time they will sort things out and realize that the old Cooking Papa had a winning formula. It will be a while before I come back.
Looking for a dim sum experience we went for a quick lunch to Cooking Papa. We were Sent to a table next to the window with a beautiful view but “Sorry” removed 2 min later as a client had been offered that table. We ordered a dim sum appetizer ( the only one available) and two dishes. Clay pot Chicken and eggplant and meat chow fun. Chicken was loaded with fat skin and the beef chow fun was greasy. I cant say Service was excellent so I would only miss a nice view of Edgewater and my lunch partner in Foster City.
Quite a shock to see new menu, prices up about 30% and lots of new faces. Place was pretty empty at lunch (usually full) and now I know why. Food was terrible! No relation to how it was for the last few years. Many items no longer on menu, a dessert "signature" dish was "not available". Apparently new owner and ?new chefs (or maybe they kept the ones who couldn't cook?). So sad - had 4 different dishes - ones with meat had huge bones and gristle and almost no meat (for $18), portions were ridiculously small (eggplant dish was about the size of a small eggplant for $16ish) - which I guess was alright since the food was mostly tasteless. Used to be a go to place - now it's a "I won't be back" place :(
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