Chi Cafe - Chicago

Sizziling beef with saki sauce, mong fish and crab ragoons. I have never had better chinese food. Im eager to go here again and try more on the menu.

The food is good, my favorite is Garlic Fried Chicken. Didn't like the service. Waiters are not friendly.

Very cozy restaurant with a great buzz. Crab rangoons and sizzling beef are just alright, the combination fried rice and the beef crispy noodle and great. I was not a big fan of salt and pepper fried squid, it was a bit rough for my liking. I like the new decoration, the service is quick, servers are medium friendly. They gotta clean up the entrance area though, between the outside door and the inside door there are bunches of cleaning buckets, stacked canned drinks etc. They even had a sign that said “umbrellas here” and there was another used cleaning bucket under that sign which was kinda funny. But yeah the entrance isn’t very welcoming and makes you question the cleanliness of the kitchen and other back rooms. The dining area is pretty clean though. Overall a good choice to eat in chinatown. They are only open for dinner no lunch service, it opens at 4pm.

The food was gross. We ordered at midnight, but they were out of one thing, so I subbed for stir fry roast beef, and it was one of the grossest tasting things I've had from a restaurant. The noodles had a weird aftertaste, and the noodles weren't seasoned or fried. It came with a small amount of unseasoned cabbage on the side and a tiny amount of roast beef that was 75% fat. The curry lamb soup was so unseasoned that it tasted like turmeric and water. We ordered udon noodles, but they gave us some random skinny yellow noodles. It also had raw chuncks of pepper and tomato in it that were flavorless. The only food they had of any redeeming quality was the sweet sake fish. The breading was alright, but the sauce for the fish was really good.

Best value canto diner in Chinatown imo. Their rice platters are under $8 and love the white sauce fish spaghetti.