Reviews for Ho Sum Bistro in Newport Beach, CA
The best Chinese chicken salad there is based on 20+ years of eating there. Great food at a very fair price.
We ordered the full size combo salad between the two of us. It was a huge salad. I'm not a salad for dinner person, I usually... only have it as a side to dinner, but I just about filled up on a half size of their salad. Dinner's mainwas a full order ofShanghai noodles split between two of us. That was a much smaller portion but we still had leftovers of both salad and main.They have green, chamomile, jasmine tea and I got the green. Read more
The Sesame chicken salad has a better dressing than the Ho Sum (ginger) chicken salad. But the Ho Sum salad has better... ingredients. So I recommend getting the combination salad. The hot kitchen operates way slower than the cold kitchen, so Ihighly recommend starting with a salad first, and feel free to order everything at the same time because the hot items willarrive way after the cold items. Also get a side of sesame dressing because it goes great with everything from the lettuce wrapsto the dumplings. The salads are huge - a half size salad could easily feed 3 to 4 people. While the full size salad feeds 6 to8 people! The soups are nice too. The hot and sour soup is great. The wonton soup has a nice rich broth and comes with the softboiled chicken dumplings that are also available as Dim Sum. I love the red sauce that comes with the "Poached Wrapped Wontons"(which is really dimsum soft boiled chicken dumplings), and it's only mildly spicy. The quenelles have the same great chickenfilling inside but are just different shape. The chicken potstickers are good, while the shrimp potstickers are average. The HoSum dumplings are just average and have somewhat of a Greek flavor to them with the minced herbs sauce. The combination friedrice is somewhat flavorless and needs soy sauce. The Lo Mein noodles are also somewhat flavorless, but are improved by askingfor a side of Ho Sum BBQ sauce which is actually their home made version of Asian Hoisin sauce. By the way this place is veryloud. It's a small place, but the sound bounces off the walls in a major way. Read more
Stopped in while walking by for happy hour. I had some dumplings that were tasty and a glass for wine for a special deal. ... They also had a chopped salad that looked very good and they kindly gave me a little sample.l and it indeed tasty. The placelooked like it was a local favorite with plenty of people coming and going and getting take out. Read more
Obsessed with this place and can't wait to go back!!! The ho sum salad is to die for and that's only a half order so can't... imagine what a full order looks like!! And only salad I've met that tastes even better the next day..dressing on and all.. friedrice probably one of the best I had..chicken schuwein amazinngg as well as the dumplings...literally cannot wait to go back toget the other half of the menu..can't forgot about the pork Lo mein..SO GOOD!!! Read more
This place is absolutely amazing. If you haven't been here before, you must try it out! The staff is incredibly friendly and the... food...well let's just say it's "heavenly". If you haven't been here before, make sure you get the Combo Salad (the large ishuge!). Two of my favorite must-gets every time I go, is the Combo Salad and Poached Wrapped Won-Tons (If you like spicy)! Youhonestly can't go wrong with anything! Read more
January 2017: 4-stars for what it is - a low key, fun, casual, salad and California-Asian cuisine restaurant very popular with... locals for dine-in and take out. The restaurant recently reopened after being closed for over a year following a kitchenfire. Prices are reasonable, customers are nice, and service is friendly. Their salads are large (overflowing) and extremelypopular. People also love their dumplings, noodle dishes, and California-Chinese preparations. Read more
We have been eating here for longer than I want to admit, food is always great. When we have family celebrations with large... numbers of people we bring the food in. Everyone loves it! Read more