Taste of MP

415 W Garvey Ave, Monterey Park
(626) 307-7338

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My family and I had a wonderful time at this restaurant! We ate here a total of 3 times during a 5 day trip as it was so delicious each time! We ordered the french style filet mignon, fried fish with corn sauce, steamed organic chicken, fish maw soup, shrimp with yau choy, and steamed meatloaf with salty fish. I highly recommend the lunch special as it ranges from ~$12.99-$16.99 and it includes soup and rice. For a Chinese restaurant, the service was above average. We appreciated the knowledgeable staff about their dishes, and great service when serving soups. I highly recommend this restaurant for any occasion. They have open area seating as well as private rooms for your needs.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Maria Lara

We love going to this restaurant because the lobster and orange chicken is delicious. On Sunday I went in to buy take out and the gentleman that helped me was so rude and obnoxious that I just felt like leaving. He started speaking his language to the other employees and looking at me laughing. I felt so uncomfortable because I knew he was talking about me. It’s unfortunate that because I didn’t speak his language he felt it was okay to talk about me.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 1

Goose McSausage jr

I placed an order over the phone for pick up, which didnt take much time at all. when I entered the establishment, I was greeted immediately. The woman working the front desk was polite and friendly. The food was very well made and delicious. They even included free desserts with my order. I would 💯% recommend this place to anyone that enjoys good Chinese food, in a great atmosphere with amazing service.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

E Yen

The food was tasty. I enjoyed everything we ordered. The wait staff was very friendly. Thinly thing we didn't enjoy was the red bean soup. It wasn't sweet st all.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 3

Elizabeth Wong

This is one of our go-to places for authentic Cantonese food. We also like our special occasions celebrated here because you can secure a private banquet room for free!! I was here for my aunts 97th bday. My cousins ordered more traditional foods for the elders table. Mainly seafood dishes. The more Americanized of us got chowmein with chicken and sweet n sour chicken. The other table got noodles with seafood and cold boiled chicken, traditional for a bday celebration. . The highlight was the crispy whole piglet. Big hit for everyone. Also the shrimp with candied walnuts. And the French style filet mignon with mushrooms, always a yummy choice here. I enjoyed the sweet and sour soup. The owner was on hand to make sure all's well. The service was swift and efficient. Another great private room dining experience. It's not a fancy place but who cares ...the food is goooood. Highly recommend per usual. Dedicated parking lot is free. Credit cards accepted.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Ricky J

Price is fair but too much people….

J Y

Love this place, excellent comfortable Hong Kong banquet style Chinese dishes to celebrate with family and loved ones. You can rsvp private rooms for parties. They served complementary slow cooked house soup and red bean dessert with dinner! Great place.

Oh, their steamed live fish and crustacean are highly recommended.

Ody Onyx

better than chinatown food is good too

K Chan

Able to accommodate 14 people at 8:30 on a Sunday night.

Gilbert Reyes

The Good is the best Chinese you can get Amazing Taste

Diana Wei

11am-5pm Daily Lunch Special with rice and soup. Our favorite simple Canto LUNCH SPECIAL restaurant, and just takeout Chinese restaurant overall!! Its not the best, but quality is decent, and they have the variety I like.

Depending on what you order, it can be oily, especially the dishes we ordered this time. This visit, it felt like Chinese fast food but better quality. Maybe it was a different chef today? Many places offer too much meat, become a carbo load place, or it's just more mainland China taste and dishes. This place is typical OG Canto lunch specials. They give alot of meat and veggies.

Lunch special prices:
1. Pan fried String Beans with Minced pork $12.99
3. Eggplant and Minced Pork with Garlic Sauce $12.99. Forgot this dish here is too oily and soggy for us.
29. Beef with Bitter Melon in Black Bean Sauce $14.99. We've been trying to get into the bitter melon life for better health.
32. Fish Filet with Black Bean Sauce $14.99.
57. Preserved Vegetable with Pork Intestine $15.99. Will order again because we love intestine. They give alot.
We ordered to a certain point where lobster was an additional deal for us...$30 lobster.
Lunch Special soup is always the typical light version. Rice is typical, nothing special, nothing bad.

This visit, we ordered pretty oily items. In previous visits we ordered different dishes. Lettuce and tofu, and shredded bamboo tofu fungus we're not for us last time. We're not into sweet and sour dishes, sweet, spare ribs but we have tried it here; it's not for us but good for those who usually like those dishes. I'll probably order the house special dish (lotus, sausage, fungus), seafood crispy chow mein, crispy intestine, walnut shrimp, jelly fish again.

I'm not a fan of the new popular fad of Canto breakfast specials around 626 SGV. My mom loves deals and loves lunch special...but I think her social circle has changed (with age too) to breakfast special.

We also order (full price) takeout too.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 4

Linda Thieben

it was ok..

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 3

Service: 3

Vorence Shoshi

Went for Father's day, got 4 items
Item 1: black peppered beef (forgot what it was called on the menu but that's the gist of what it was)
Item 2: chicken (I assume it was Hainan style chicken but it tasted like it was just boiled/steamed and it came with some aromatics emulsed in oil for a sauce.)
Item 3: Fried squid with spicy salt (tasty for what it was but was unevenly seasoned)
Item 4: Bean curd with fried scallop and Abalone sauce (came with some broccoli and was by far the best item of all of them)
Each item seems to come with an order of rice.

Each item in the menu was approximately $12-$22 dollars with the majority of the food items ranging from $17-$22. This excludes drinks and deserts.

When it comes to the food, I cannot recommend Items 1 and 2 at all. Item 2 was especially problematic given the ratio of meat provided to bones. Either they have used a tiny chicken or something weird is happening with the chicken. You can get better quality food of that description in most other Chinese restaurants even on the same street. Item 3 is recommended because it was fried well and was very tasty with rice. Item 4 was the highlight of everything that was ordered. Bean curd was fried well and paired with the sauce perfectly all of which is highlighted when consumed with the rice.

Parking lot was of good size so unless there is a lot of people eating there at the time of your arrival you should easily find parking.

Wait time after ordering the food was a bit long for my group but considering the restaurant was full and I enjoyed at least some of the food moreso than what I have had at other establishments of this cuisine I found it tolerable.

Parking: The restaurant has a parking lot of decent size I didn't bother counting the numbers of parking spaces but it had a good amount considering the size of the restaurant.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Jie Gong

We came here for a group dinner and they offer a private room setting. The food is 潮汕style from Southern China, so they have lots of seafood in the menu such as fresh water shrimp, scallop. They also have pig stomach soup which sounds weird but really tasty!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Dem B

One of the best Kung Pao I’ve had.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Seafood Chow Mein

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