Joyful Kitchen

1919 Ocean Ave, San Francisco
(415) 239-2388

Recent Reviews

Yuki zhen

The service attitude of this restaurant is not good at all! Don't go! I used to like eating here, and I also liked to order takeout. I found that the soy sauce of takeout and dine-in is different! I don't recommend you to eat rice rolls here at all. Although the rice rolls are delicious, the soy sauce is very unhygienic! The attitude of the waiter is really not good at all! No smile at all, when giving the bill, he just threw it over, and when serving the food, he treated us like dogs. The waiter came to feed us, put us down and left. The first experience was too bad! Don't go!

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Canis Amator (Laurel)

Well clearly I do not know the different varieties of noodles! How could I because they do not have a description on the online menu. When you click on a menu item, it adds it to your cart instead of having a description. I was craving some wet slimey tasty noodles so I ordered what I thought would be a chow mien or chow fun and ordered "Pan Fried Noodles". I get home with my take out order and noodles are dry & crispy in a separate box from the soup. I wondered if it was like ramen and gets soft with the hot liquid. Nope! Crispy crunchy the whole time. Not bad but NOT at all what I wanted. The broth was really tasty & the soup had shrimp, chicken, carrots & bok choy. The chicken was weird and had a lot of skin & fat so I picked out all the chicken meat. Great service cording online. Ready in 15 minutes and the waitress was really friendly when I went in to pick up- in & out in 10 seconds. I did not take off any stars for my own error, just the chicken. They need to add descriptions for clueless folks like me!Parking: What I can't post unless I tie every section?

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Yang Chow Fried Rice

Wil Dong

Very good Asian food parking is easy very small

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Vincent Lau

I personally think that the food is crappy and the service level is average, better than blowing the ceiling down.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 3

Service: 2

Elenor Guilmette

Delicious Chinese food!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Thomas Liang

we found a piece of steel in our food. We noticed the server when we asked for the bill, she was rude and just looked away, no apologies, no nothing. we will never

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 1

Thomas L.

a piece of steel found in the middle of chaofen. this steel wool is used to clean pots in the kitchen. this place got serious health issues here. thumbs down

Zoey F.

Don't expect any service here. Servers are very rude. First of all the noodle was super salty, but we didn't want to say anything. Then we found a piece of wire in the noodle that we ordered, they didn't even apologize. Just unbelievable.

L. C.

The food is okay. Service is always bad. My husband won't be going there again. They take Venmo.

547tedl

Came in for lunch. Metered street parking. Very plain wall decor 10 -20 wood tables and chairs - separated or joined. Condiments on table. Only three other tables and I sat there for too long. Ordered water and tea and water never came. Ordering service very slow with four workers. Indivudual tea came in metal cup. Too hot to sip. Seafood chow fun made things better. Liked how they cooked their seafood.

Erdi Babataş

I was pick up order, she was so rude, speaks by order, politeness zero! ı never go again ?

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Chris Tran

My family and I had dinner here last night, the food was absolutely fantastic! The restaurant owners are very friendly and gracious. Our favorite are: the crab congee (rice soup), the shrimps, the rice cakes and the pig intestines stir fried. We will definitely be back! Highly recommended.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Chris T.

My family and I had dinner here last night, the food was absolutely fantastic! The restaurant owners are very friendly and gracious. Our favorite are: the crab congee (rice soup), the shrimps, the rice cakes and the pig intestines stir fried. We will definitely be back! Highly recommended.

Tessie C.

My sister, who lives out in the boonies in the state of Washington came to visit. Knowing she have not had some decent porridge in years, I got some pork porridge and rice rolls from Joyfull Kitchen for a light brunch. She definitely loved both. There were some rice rolls leftover from our brunch. I microwaved them the following day and the noodle turned tough! I was getting ready to throw them out, but decided to take out my steamer and steam them instead. It was good! If anything I think they were more delicious than when we ate them fresh from the restaurant the day before! Yum! The service was fairly decent. I ordered the food online and it was ready for pick up when we arrived at the store 15 minutes later. Would try their other foods. We did not dine in. But from I can see the place was fairly busy at 10 a.m. The place is well lighted and clean.

Pete L.

Decent hole in the wall for Cantonese food. One of the few places in the bay area that make steamed rice noodle rolls the taishan/hoiping/southern Guangdong style - Where the rice noodles are steamed in super thin sheets and then folded into a roll. Its missing the silky smooth texture that you'd get from actual places in China but still hits the spot if you've got the craving.

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