Poached chicken was really tender, but roasted duck had a little too much skin and bones compared to meat. Awesome sauces, really authentic flavors. Peanuts were freshly roasted. A little too pricey for the portion size.

EXCELLENT foodI live literally down the street from Cooking Papa and finally made it over there this last week.My first impressions - ambiance leaves a lot to be desired, really not much to look at in there or reason to stay and relax at your seat (at least at this location). A touch on the pricier side but that’s what you get with Mountain View.The food, however, was incredible. Very, very tasty. I know they have some Michelin mentions and it’s apparent why. The beef, the rice, the chicken, the pot stickers - everything was clearly made fresh and handmade. Could’ve ate until I was sick.Service was very fast - you can actually just choose your items on the electronic menu they leave at your table and they’ll come by and send it to the chef and you use it to pay as well. Very efficient.Would definitely go back! (Or at least order online)

Clean simple decor. The appetizers were average. The lobster with rice noodles were delicious, fresh lobster, tasty noodles, not sure it was a whole lobster though for $25. The fish fillet was above average, but the dish was like warm, not sure why. The fried tofu was good, but a bit too salty. The sweet and sour spare ribs was thin, but flavorful.

Decent Cantonese food! And their seafood is fresh not frozen you can tell from the crab and crawfish!!! Plus free soy milk beverage and 10% off for first time order in app!!!

Friendly place and great customer service. The food is great here. The top 10 choice menu made it easier to order random food that is great.

Weve tried this place a while back and thought it was really good! Back then, it got pretty crowded and it was really popular. So we decided to try this place again on Christmas day since it was one of the few restaurants that were open. We expected a large crowd at the door but surprisingly,not wasnt that busy. When we first came in, we were sat immediately but needed a high chair, which took a while to get. After we got the high chair, we were not handed the menus until we asked for it. They offer complimentary tea as well. However, our service was lacking. A lot of times we had to wave down a server to get something we needed. For the food, we ordered 3 different dishes. Egg and Prawn chow fun, Peking duck and house pan fried noodles. The food was pretty good, especially the Peking duck. Skin was crispy and best of all, no bones! Then wife and kids enjoyed the prawn and eggs, but I found the pan fried noodles just ok, not exemplary. Overall, not a bad place if you are in the mood for some Hong Kong food! Give this place a try!

Such a decent place for HongKong cuisine! Fish soup is so yummy that my eyebrows start dancing.

We did dinner for 4, and....ugh. Ill give them one star for getting the order that we placed correct, but thats the end of it. The food was bleagh - 3 main dishes 2 soups, and nothing good came from it. Not one person in our party liked the food, which is an absolute first for us eating Chinese in over 30 years. NEVER had universal agreement the food was a no-go.Save yourself the headache. Go somewhere else.

Food is just okay. The traditional Cantonese duck is good. The thing that made me disappointed was we waited 20 minutes before the first dish was served. People at next table came 10 minutes late than us but got their dishes faster than us. When asking them why our dishes are so slow, they gave no explanation.

This place deserves a higher rating. Very decent Cantonese/Teochew food with reasonable pricing. Hard to find an alternative in the neighborhood.

Taste excellent, exceed expectation for Hong Kong style Chinese food.

This is a clean place with excellent service. The food, however, is maybe a little bit too authentic -- not the traditional Americanized Chinese food you are used to!

Great food, tremendous selection. Decent parking.

Just moved to Cali from Toronto, Canada and was missing HK food already. Glad to have found this spot for delivery. A bit pricey though.

Love them! Great services and great Chinese food. I love to order their whole roast duck. The skin is so crispy and inside is very tender. Dont forget to ask for sauce, they are adding different layers of flavors.Their service is awesome too. Sometimes we get free snacks like handmade soy milk, or sweet soup.

Definitely authentic Chinese dishes.

Awesome canto food in mountain view!

Peking duck was good for the price, though the crispy noodles are not very crispy, more hard and doesnt really have a crunch.

I ordered the claypot chicken with a side of rice for delivery. The flavor was good, though mostly garlic and ginger without many other flavors.The dish had bones, which I was unaware of when ordering.The food came packaged nicely and was hot when it arrived.Edited due to kind response from restaurant. I didnt enjoy this dish due to the bones, and other customers may not as well. A boneless version being available would be great!

Good food good service

I have to say, I was so very pleasantly surprised with the quality of the food and the portions were perfect! I dont get to treat myself very often and Im so glad I chose this place. The next time I get the chance to suggest a restaurant, Ill be sure to suggest this one!

Popular restaurant for Chinese food

Can you give 0 stars???Ordered to-go, paid more than the online menu, ok might be a mistake, got home, container is half empty... Rang up, told them, they hung up on me!Really?

Very good egg puffs, which are hard to find. The chicken chow mein, with thin noodles, was also very tasty. The place is known for good Cantonese village cuisine. It is clean and orderly. I recommend this small restaurant chain. 1/2/20.

Delicious Cantonese food! Try the steamed fish!!

I like to go with friends to this place with my highest recommendations. I go to this restaurant often. This recommendation is always successful. The the food there is great and the crew is welcoming and cooperative. always when we visit this place we enjoy a splendid time. I recommend this place with pleasure.

Authentic Hong Kong dishes.. I like the Salt and Pepper crab, the kids love the Chinese donut (yao char kuai) and the roasted meats arent too bad.

A reasonable set of dishes. Lately I found some of them on the oily side. I miss the sit-in experience better.

Good comfort food with extensive Cantonese menu. A rare place in the area with porridge/congee for sick days. Love their black sesame pudding dessert.

This place clearly knows how to take care of their clients. Consistently with a very nice approach. The food is affordably priced, always delicious and clean.

Delicious Hong Kong Cantonese cuisine with lots of vegetables and awesome soups,yummy stirfry dishes.

Great Cantonese style cooking.Our party of five enjoyed a broad sample from the menu. Hong Kong style oysters in the shell, honey BBQ pork, and so on. Friendly service, reasonable price s, traditional family style portions.

Food is fine but nothing out of the ordinary. When we were the place was packed and the environment was a bit crowded and convulsed. Nevertheless staff were prompt after we ordered and the meal was fast and smooth. I would consider this place since us not in Castro street and they close a bit later than other places. Consider bringing tgem a coupon

Very popular with Uber eats customers. I am never eaten there. But my customers in joy their food there so it must be good.Another fine review from MCF

I have come here few times with my family for dinner, the foods is good, and they all pretty friendly nice, we would like to back again!

The food is OK, but will not be returning because it is not worth suffering through the service. Long waits and staff that dont seem to understand English and dont seem to care to try to communicate. I ordered take out and thy said 20 minutes, 40 minutes later, they come up to me pointing at I-pad they use to make orders and one of three dishes was wrong. No apologies, just walked away. 10 minutes later received the order, no receipt, not idea if they charged me correctly. They did get that incorrect dish right, but gave me the wrong dish that was correctly ordered. Geez. Putting up with the service is not worth the quality of food they make. Poor management and staff.

I tried to call to make an order. They intentionally hand up on me because I asked them what vegetable do they have this season. I called about 10 times after that and no one answered. Then I came physically and the receptionist was right there. In her own word: I don’t answer, go check the menu first. Okay, you the boss.

Mediocre at best. They changed to this weird iPad menu and ordering system. It doesnt work well and is annoying to find items. The egg puffs were clearly refried and stale/greasy. The green beans were good. The salt fish and chicken fried rice tasted great but they didnt even bother to debone the fish bits. We were picking bones out of every bite. A distinct lack of care about the quality of food these days.

Large portions for the prices.Chow fun with spare ribs and black beans is very nice. Salt and pepper shrimp and wonton noodle are bland.Main selling point is value, but dont expect fine dining experience.

Dinner last night at Cooking Papas was delicious. In particular, the broccoli with garlic was cooked perfectly - fully cooked but still very crisp and fresh. They have a new menu with three types of tea, at $3.50 per pot. Everything we tried was good.Cooking Papa is embarking on a soft opening as a cashless restaurant, and will not accept cash any longer. You must pay with a credit card or debit card. I think they also take Apple Pay. The waitress was very helpful in showing us how to order using an iPad. The service in general was very good. The food arrived promptly. They have applied for an alcohol license which they hope to have soon.They are also now open 7 days a week. Prices seemed a little higher but given the increase in minimum wage and difficulty in finding help, it is understandable and still more affordable than most. We spent $130 for five people, but it included fresh Dungeness crab.

Most dishes are very well made with good temperature. Authentic HK food for fair price

Good menu selection. Pretty good quality food with good portion. Service is generally good. Food comes out fast. Has parking. Gets busy.

(Latest inside scoop: it may reopen again after all this time. Let us hope the kitchen area will have great improvement. No more unpleasant surprises on the dishes.) Latest update: there was a fire recently and I have heard that would be closed permanently. Probably too expensive to rebuild it and meet the regulations. Too bad. Not much real good Chinese restaurants in the area now compared to other cities a little bit north.Ok. More update. The place has reopened. Probably under different management.Lots of things have changed, very hi-tech but I am afraid the dishes are a step backwards. So so menu choices. I guess there are not that many decent Chinese restaurants around the area.

New management after fire. They modernized on ordering process but the menu was cut. Many food items were not offered, just the basic ones are offered now. If you order take out, also use the new system, and one of the lady server asked for tip. I normally will tip, but hated it when she specifically asked me to add to the electric payment. What type of service is this?

Great service and good selection of food. A bit hectic during its busiest times, but otherwise a good environment.

My fiance and I (both non-Chinese) went here and loved it. The portion sizes were bigger than we expected and very tasty. Our waiter was very polite.

Chicken was not as fresh and stir fried vegetables are clearly can food. Why would I need can food if I sit in a restaurant?The duck was good, that’s the only thing I would be approval of.

Great so far. The beef fish is too sweet. The puff is a must have.

A great dim sum place. Make sure to try their pork belly. Its a little bit fatty, but its delicious. Food comes out very quickly after you put your order in.

Horrible service. I didnt even get a glass of water. Indeed they didnt have even enough glasses. Very slow ordering as you have to use an iPad to order food. Ridiculous system. And then the servers are no where to be found.

Reasonable price for a high quality of food. Meanwhile, theyre rude and very disrespectful in manner. It seems like some of the workers are racist. It was last december when came here and got an undeserved service. Theres three option for the tip amount that we could choose, but the waiters pick the highest one without giving us any information. They even started to clean up our table while were still eating.

Still decent, new menu seems healthier but less selection and missing of old favourites

Great overall Cantonese restaurant with ample parking and good service, despite the fact we came on one of their busiest days of the year, Christmas Day. All the dishes we tried were above average quality. I especially liked the Fried Egg Tofu with Vegetables dish, and the Wonton Noodles soup and Lobster Yee Mein were also very good.

One of the restaurants that I visit the most. Delicious congees and clams, I love the staff as well! Theyre so efficient, and they will give your food once you blink. I will come back soon!

I used to like this restaurant a lot until the new owner took over end of 2018. The selection in the menu is significantly less now. Dim sum is no longer in the menu. But they keep my favorite dessert.

After reading on Yelp and hearing from multiple people that Cooking Papas quality has decreased since the renovation, my husband and I decided we needed to try it out for ourselves. We went to Cooking Papa Express maybe 2-3 days prior to visiting this place, so I am familiar with the family of restaurants. Sad to say, we agree with our friends/family and other reviewers.I have very minimal expectations of service at Asian restaurants. (tbh, if an Asian restaurant has too *good* of customer service, I find that their food isnt that great.) However, the service here is as awful as other reviews state. We were handed an iPad and told to pick our food off that iPad, and then flag down a server for help. Kinda inefficient IMO. We ordered multiple dishes that were all subpar. As each dish arrived, it was slammed haphazardly on our table without a second thought. The prawn/egg chow fun and congee were bland. We ordered a rice roll with a Chinese donut inside - the donut was stale and cold. The pea shoots we ordered were just OK. The biggest disappointment was the roast pork, which came out dry and sour.Eek! Methinks not sums out how we felt about this place.

Went to lunch today with friends to check out Cooking Papa that reopened again. It was still under a soft opening with new management. No dim sum carts like before and very limited dim sum selection until the soft opening is completed -- so service is slow in one aspect. Food is Cantonese style that was delicious and priced reasonably. Crispy pork, black peppered beef, shrimp egg chow fun, dried shrimp fried rice, snow pea shoots with fish broth, stirred fried pork with inoki mushrooms, and egg custard donuts were some of the items ordered. The tablet ordering system takes getting use to; but should go faster once you figure out how to use it. If you add another order later in the system it goes to the bottom of the queue. Cashless payments by credit /debit card or smartphone payments -- all worked. Oh yeah, they charge for hot tea.

1sr time back since they reopened after the fire last year, found out chain of 3 restaurants were sold to a new owner, no dim sum as they were still in soft opening mode, dishes are now 1/3 less than the portions they used to serve, prices went up 3 - 4 bucks a plate, kitchen prep had no “wok hey”, very very disappointed, never going back again. Too bad, was a great restaurant before.......

We ate here Christmas day and had a nice lunch. Service was very easy ordering through an iPad, and food arrived promptly. I thought a few dishes were overly salty, like the garlic green beans, but the congee, duck, and bok choy were great. I only wish the baos were available to order.

Although missing some Dim Sum types, like the steamed (or fried) chives with shrimp, they do have the steamed turnip cakes which are delicious, and Hong Kong style egg puffs, which are a great dessert. Service is fast and efficient and Ive yet to see them make a mistake translating the order. Near Mountain View this is definitely the better place to go to.

Really good food. Easy menu to order off of. Great rice noodles, chow fun, and fried rice.

One of the best spots in the bay area

Fast service for fans of Cantonese food. Tasty and good portions. Many choices. Arrive early as it can get busy for lunch or dinner.

Ricepo delivery

Food typical of a Chinese diner. Lots of comfort food variety to satisfy everyone, but if course service is not so hot. On this particular night it took forever for someone to take out order - we had to flag someone multiple times!

Operations arent as well run as the San Jose branch, and the dishes feel more pricey at $12-15 with smallish portions. $50 for dinner for 2! Our food came out but we had to wait a while for rice to follow... and it took a few asks before we got water. Overall value doesnt feel great.

Very good Cantonese, fast and flavorful! We loved it- definitely coming back & highly recommend. We waited for 15 minutes on busy Saturday night at 7pm to be seated, served within 15-20 minutes.

Food quality is slightly behind the Santa Clara location but still good. It has the benefit of being pretty easy to get a table due to the large space.Occasionally dishes can be more greasy or salty than desired.

I go to Chinese restaurants all the time and I must admit that I am picky.We ordered a seafood pan-fried noodle with one other dish. The quality of the seafood is mediocre, and portion is certainly small by any standard. The worst thing is it has WAY too much MSG, in both dishes.Service is below par, and I cannot rate it 2 star.I dont think I will go there again.

Decent Cantonese, this location has a very limited menu thus only 3 stars. Service is bad when the place is busy. Some dishes could be too oily for some, certainly too oily for modern Cantonese sophisticated kitchens, but this place is not about sophistication.

Old cooking papa was so much better. After renovations, wait is much longer, food is not steamy hot, less selection, more expensive, and please get rid of the tablets

Good place for a quick and generous portion plates (assuming you make it through the long waiting line.) Food can be a bit salty. My favorite are: chicken fried rice, anything rice roll, vegetable dishes. The noodle and wonton can be a little on a salty side. Roasted duck is good, but too fatty for me.

Michelin star suggestions. Great chinese food and fast service.

Long waiting, normal quality food and super high price. Not recommend and will not come back again

Casual cantonese restaurant with good service and nice food. Nothing out of the ordinary though.

Excellent service! Cute Cooking Papa mascot. Genuine cuisine!

Good food, ordering platform like no other Chinese restaurant. SILICON VALLEY STYLE!

Good food with big tables for friends gathering

Service was very good but lobster very disappointing. It was soft and slimy, and we decided not to eat it. Gave feedback to the server.

Food is okay in taste. But bad service, and one of my dish is not even fully cooked!

The new management had taken this place up a notch in service and food quality.

A cooking papa with more food options than the Santa Clara one! Overall the food quality between the 2 are very similar. Classic Cantonese food albeit expensive thats pretty good in the area

Food was fresh. BBQ pork was very tender and well worth the order.

This is the worst one. High price, cook is not good and the service is so bad. Just like high price fast food.

This is one of those dim sum places that you order from a menu and they bring you the food. Quality is good, everything is fresh and tasty but I wish they had more variety.

Most their dishes are above average. Occasionally got some not-so-satisfying ones. PS, as a Cantonese restaurant, they shouldve done a better job in clay pot rice...

Love most dishes here. Clean and comfortable dining place with a big parking lot. The only issues here is that some dishes are very Hong Kong/Guangdong style - means almost no vegetable inside.

The food is good, although not so good as the other one near SFO.

Just demoted this place from 4 stars to 3 stars. I generally love this place. Go to place for quick and great quality dim sum. However, today...I found a cockroach in my hau gao. It was steamed to death beneath the shrimp dumpling. Gross! It wont stop me from going back but I will be paranoid from now on. I hope this is a one off otherwise Ill report.

Others have commented that being white at this place means you will get poor service. I hesitate to make such sweeping claims, but that seems to have been my experience. When I arrived there were 2 other groups. I ordered immediately and it took several minutes for someone to come pick up the order. After about 20 minutes, everyone around me had been served (a couple of large groups of Asians with the same items I ordered) and I was still waiting. After I complained, it was another 10 minutes and by this time there were about 20 tables with people and food. Perhaps I just fell through the cracks, but no one was even polite about it. For the first time in my life, I did not leave a tip. The food was good.

The food was quite tasty, congee, BBQ sampler, rice noodle rolls stuffed with BBQ pork, but the portions were small and overpriced. The BBQ sampler plate, which had 4 slices of roast pork, 6 slices of BBQ pork, 5 bone-y pieces of roast duck, totaled no more than one pound of meat and cost $22!

Their food is always consistent. Something thats not easy to do. Our Waiter was very attentive. Shout out to the young gentlemen who wears black frame glasses.

If youre not Chinese, this is a good place to fill your belly. If youre Chinese I wouldnt recommend this restaurant. Not good on tasty and price.

Great food, great prices, fantastic service!

The BBQ platter and Salt & Pepper shrimp were decent but the dungeness crab fried rice really lacked flavor. As for value for your dollar, I wouldnt rate this spot very high compared to similar in the area.

I came here for dinner, and the food here was a hit or miss for me. The hot and sour soup wasnt right, the soup dumplings didnt seem fresh.. and the place seemed dirty. Overall, I was pretty disappointed, knowing that their counterpart in Foster City is Michelin Guide Recommended. I dont think I will be coming to this location again unless Im feeling adventurous enough to try their dim sum.

Even in these trying times my food was perfect and exactly on time

Food is average and service is below average. Around lunch time they are clearly understaffed. While we were talking about some business and didnt actively get their attention, but they ignored us till the next table, which arrived after us, almost finished their lunch. I finally flagged someone down to take our order. Check didnt come either, I had to walk to the cashier to pay.Food isnt bad - somewhat authentic but nothing outstanding.

Mid-range authentic cantonese foods. A little bit salty for me.

The food I had today was too salty and the service was not good. Won’t go there again!