Reviews for Chef Chao Restaurant in Moraga, CA

This place serves soup for my soul. It revives you. Mushu pork is amazing. Johnny is the greatest. I would give my first born... for another won ton soup. Peace and love!!!! Read more

Super friendly staff--Bill was our waiter. Food was great with exception of crab dumplings... they tasted like mozzarella... cheese in wonton-- could not taste a bit of crab... Read more

Nice ambience. Tasty and good amount of food. Still able to box up leftovers.

Spent $192 on a takeout order, they wanted us to prepay before making, didn?t go over the order because it was ?too long? for... them to recite (the cashiers words), went to pick up at the allotted time, they handed me 2 bags of food, didn?t go over theorder (again), I asked for a receipt, they gave me a receipt with just the total cost on it, not itemized, came home, missing 2pork orders (2 of each, so 4 boxes total), the orange chicken and lemon chicken ordered tasted the same, the only difference isthey put lemon slices on the ?lemon chicken?, had a plate with a scoop of rice and a scoop of veggies (which was not ours and itjust looked like someone?s leftovers), called them to talk and get the rest of the pork order, the cashier said they wereclosing and to call and speak to the manager the next day. It has been 3 days and nothing has been made right. Never going hereagain. Read more

I have come here with my family since I was young and the quality of the food never ceases to amaze me, I wish everyone here the... best of lives. Read more

Food was super salty and expensive now. I picked what looked like one of their more authentic dishes, the Szechuan Beef,... believing I could try something new. When I started wolfing down the food I felt the meat was way too salty. This was muchdifferent than what I experienced before. I think they changed owners or chefs. Looks like one place is off my list. Read more

The absolute worst food experience ever. First it?s my first time in Moraga and I was starving! Had a flight from east coast... that was delayed ? so it was like 11 hours of a trip!!! could not eat indoors Bc my friend forgot their vaccine card ? so weordered to go. I ordered nearly 100 dollars worth of food! It was prepared in less than 15 minutes!!! HOW? There was absolutelyno flavor NONE! It was absolutely inedible and outside of the fried rice, I couldn?t eat any of it! The phrase rice reallywasn?t barely but cooked so it really wasn?t what I would call fried it was more like it just had a layer of oil on it!!! Allof it was heavily breaded in a way that makes absolutely no sense! There was absolutely NO flavor whatsoever which tells me thatthis was food that had been from another day and they just heated it up quickly and threw it in a bag. I am so upset about itthat I paid $100 for my first meal after a near 11 hour flight and there was no care whatsoever given to this food. Theyshould not be in business and add to this that they don?t automatically include white rice with Chinese food which I guessthat?s a thing here in California but that?s the most ridiculous thing I?ve ever heard in my life!! like HOW?! can you livewith yourself at night you don?t include white rice as part of the meal? add a dollar or two to the cost and put some white ricein with your food please. It was truly the worst experience imaginable and I just can?t understand it because it had very highratings. There is no way they prepared food fresh for us there is just absolutely no way this was yesterday?s food . My firstmeal of the new year! I should not have paid a dime for that food and honestly it should be refunded to me ! Read more

Loved it. The service was great, our drinks never stayed empty but the service was never intrusive. There is a kids cocktail... menu which is pretty cool. The onion cake appetizers were great and served with very pungant chinse hot mustard. Our entreeswere delicious but definitely required rice which is ordered separately. The honey orange fish filet was amazing and I willdefinitely come back to order it again. Read more