Man Chan Cuisine

The male owner is very rude.

Home style Cantonese restaurant. Worth a visit.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Wenchang chicken rice numba 1
Coconut jelly and double skin milk are delicious products!
Coconut chicken pot, red bucket onion chicken, delicious pastry!
Delicious. I love it. I will eat it next time.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The fried chicken is delicious. You must eat a Wenchang chicken.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Hainanese chicken is okay. $4.50 for a ice tea is probaly the same price in most places. But their ice tea is not real. Tastes like crystal light and artificial sweetener. The only real ingredient they add to their ice tea is the lemon. Restaurant is and relaxed which is nice. But the food is okay at best.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: Hainan Chicken Rice

Seriously, everything is great. Especially loved the fried rice with salty egg yolk, taro and olives; special chicken w/ red scallion in wood pot; French style of filet mignon with red rice. I just had to visit here whenever I come back to LA. Great food. ? ?

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Hainan Chicken Rice, Salty Fish and Eggplant, Coconut Jelly

I ordered takeout and waited for two hours. It was the first time I could eat such a terrible meal when I was so hungry. The takeout was full of chicken bones, not to mention that it tasted very bad. The portion was extremely short. The Hainanese chicken rice was only 16 yuan including tax. And other fees of 20 are all chicken bones? Can it be eaten?

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

worst food ever. Don’t ever go to this restaurant. Ordered food from them online and charged me 17 dollars for a just chicken bones that taste so bad. The dollar menu at McDonald makes better chicken.

Food: 1

Recommended dishes: Hainan Chicken Rice

Best Hainan chicken rice at LA area, and the desert Coconut Custard/ pudding in a whole coconut is also worth a try. Will definite go back there again!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Hainan Chicken Rice, Spicy Cucumber, Coconut Cake, Salt and Pepper Tofu

Poached chicken (Hainan chicken 海南鸡) is at the best (9/10), most delicious I had in a while, as we always order it as an appetizer in Chinese restaurants.It’s hard to understand the greatness if you have not tried to perfect it as a home chef. Poached chicken is considered one of the most difficult. It needs to be tender, flavorful and juicy. The tenderness comes from the perfect timing in cooking which YouTube has lots of videos I am able to follow. However it’s hard to achieve the rich flavor of the poached chicken at home which requires (1) a rich soup where you repeatedly dipped and poached the chicken (2) sourcing the high quality free-ranged chicken while average home chefs like myself who buys the chicken from Asian market or a butcher in Chinatown. AND the most difficult and missing in most Chinese restaurants is the gelatinous juiciness. It’s a thin gelatinous texture layered between its meat and skin which is done by perfecting the cooling process. I believe most good Cantonese and Shanghainese chef knows how to achieve it but it’s too much of work to do it in most restaurants. I admit I have been little show-off my love and understanding of the poached chicken. But I am really amazed with what they have done here beyond my expectations.The set comes with the tasty chicken rice which is cooked with garlic/ shallots and chicken fat. It can also be order without the rice as one quarter ($12), half ($22) and as a whole ($32, which is little pricey, but definitely worth it as it is the best I had in US. Just a friendly reminder, their chicken is traditionally served with bones, following the customary Chinese presentation found in many Chinese restaurants.The second must have dish/ desert is their Coconut Custard/ pudding（椰子奶冻）in a whole coconut. It’s a first for us. We were surprised to discover it have tow layers, one clear and one milky. It is not so sweet with pleasant aroma of the coconut. As it is presented in a whole coconut makes it very unique and highly recommended. I ordered the takeaway of their ginger milk custard（姜汁撞奶）which is considered another signature sweet of theirs.The other dish we ordered with their French stir fry beef fillet（法式牛柳饭）with onion fried rice in red. It is very tasty. I have had them in some Vietnamese restaurants and couple fancy Chinese restaurants. The meat was tender and the taste were sweet and savory. We enjoyed it.Their house daily special soup is also very delicious to have. The one we had is pork soup with watercress and dry Chinese apricots（例汤：南北杏西洋菜瘦肉）which Cantonese Chinese believes it is good for internal balance of body wellness. The daily special soup（例汤）at most restaurants is cooked for hours. I hav seen they have coconut chicken soup on the menu and wish to order next trip there.We stepped in this pleasant surprise finding by chance. We were at the famous Taiwanese tea shop “Chi Cha San Chan” (8/10) next door. Since we were still full from an over ordered lunch in “Sushi GEN” (9/10 for its food only), we want something simple and comforting. However the menu is nothing simple as we have expected initially. Although it doesn’t have those expensive live sea food, it is a full extended menu with most of the traditional comforting food includes beef briskets noodles, pork wontons, beef stir fry rice noodles and most of the dishes you can find in an authentic Chinese restaurant. The boss lady is very nice speaks both mandarin and Cantonese. She reminds my of one the old TVB movie actress. I highly recommend this place as home chef and foodie.

Vegetarian options: Large selection of vegetarian offerings. However, you needs to explain to the waitress while ordering without confusing

Kid-friendliness: The boss lady is friendly.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Hainan Chicken Rice, Beef Rice, Coconut Cake, Noodle Soup, Coconut Jelly, Sauce

Best white cut chicken in LA!! I’m living Irvine but I keep coming back here over 8 years.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Food was ok, best 6/10. We order Hainan chicken, salt pepper tofu, and garlic hollow veggie. The tofu was good, but the portion was half of what is represented in menu picture. Chicken and veggies taste pretty plain.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 3

Service: 4

I came to eat on Monday during dinner time. There was no one in the restaurant, so the waiter asked me to choose a seat. I ordered Wenchang Chicken, which tasted good. There was an additional charge for swiping the card at checkout, but I was not informed at the time.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Hainan Chicken Rice

4.5 stars, rounded up to 5 stars.

Food: 5

It’s very unpalatable. The braised pork is very salty. Don’t order the double-skinned milk. It tastes terrible. In the end, this store charges arbitrarily. Be careful when paying.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 4