CHILI PALACE

Business Hours:: Sun.-Thurs.:
11:30am-2:30pm
5:00pm-9:30pm
Fri.-Sat.:
11:00am-2:30pm
5:00pm-10:00pm

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Cuisine: Mandarin; Hunan

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Top 100 Overall Excellence (2010)

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	Reviewed by : Tj L. On: 2/17/2013 6:37:00 AM I really enjoyed coming here for take out. The food is somewhat spicy, but was very good. My favorite was the Mandarin Chicken. They offer many choices to choose from and it did not take us long to receive our order. I will definitely be coming back especially if I can find something for my Daughter on the menu that will not be as spicy.
	Reviewed by : Nicole R. On: 2/9/2013 1:35:00 PM This is the place to come for authentic Hunan style Chinese food in the South Bay!Every year my lab and I come for Chinese New Year and this year did not disappoint! I am the solo white person who came so we only got the Chinese menu. My personal favorites include:Green beans with pork-crisp green beans, with finely chopped pork sautéed, very savory!County style pork- thinly sliced pork with thinly sliced bell pepper and squash.Chicken with red peppers- this you have to try! The chicken is fried with the mouth numbing spice. A strange and unique experience. Follow it up with...Wild Carrot (turnip) salad- crisp and fresh, good way to end the meal.Check your receipt. They charged us for something we ordered that they did not serve. Out the door for $15 a person!
	Reviewed by : Hui L. On: 2/9/2013 9:11:00 AM good choice of szechuan food
	Reviewed by : Prince A. On: 1/22/2013 1:19:00 AM SPICY (HUMM).It was a lunch event, two people, three dishes, no drink - $39.The spicy is OK, but the grease level was a bit much.Service - OK, english is not great, but it is workable.Timeliness for lunch - awesome.Flavor - two starts - spicy but greasy (maybe it is expected).Salnuts Prawns, Seasame Chicken - and soup.it maybe right for the original flavors..
	Reviewed by : Peggy S. On: 1/11/2013 4:17:00 PM My parents love this place, and they love taking my most current boyfriend to this restaurant just to see if they'd last (and if they didn't pass the chili challenge, well, they probably don't get a seat at the next family dinner).The dishes here were consistently good, and always very spicy. Thankfully not as spicy as their very first establishment in San Leandro (I think), but still enough to make me drink five glasses of water and eat a ton of rice... more than I should in a week.We almost always order the sizzling pot of pork intestines, but substitute the "blood chocolate" with tofu. We also like their chicken wings with chili pepper - they give you a big plate of chopped up wings with full sized dry chili peppers! My parents love taking the chili peppers home and cook them with other foods at home... it's their recycling program. The chicken wings were very tender even though they were fried to a crispy perfection on the outside, the meat itself was still juicyMy dad is also a fan of the crunchy intestines (I think that's what they are) with sweet bell peppers. Don't let the word "sweet" fool you. The peppers themselves are sweet, but the dish is SPICY!We ordered this smoked pork belly with smoked fish dish... don't get it. It was way too smokey and salty, we couldn't finish it. My dad ended up taking the dish home and he said he's gonna make some Napa cabbage soup with it to dilute the smoky flavor.Get their Chinese menu... they got tons more authentic stuff than their English menu!
	Reviewed by : keith c. On: 1/4/2013 7:45:00 AM Take out and so disappointed. I really like the #39. Crispy Fish Fillet with Special Sauce. The Moo-Shu beef was tasty, the lemon chicken ok... but it's always the little things.Standard white rice, too dry almost like it was reheated.Moo-Shu no plumb sauce and the "pancakes" were cold tortillas. Bleh skipped them.*no white vinegar and chili for the pot stickers which were cooked on one side and rewarmed?for the money , go elsewhere. It's close so I go there for the convenience...
	Reviewed by : Xin W. On: 12/31/2012 7:49:00 AM One of the best spicy Chinese restaurants in the bay area. Very authentic, fast service, price is average compared to the other places. They may not have super spicy foods, but you can always request a dish to be more spicy. Definitely one of my all-time favorites!
	Reviewed by : Kevin T. On: 11/29/2012 5:13:00 AM This place is infested with cockroaches! There was a cockroach crawling on the wall when we dined there next week. I squashed it and found more crawling on the floor. We reported the cockroach sighting to the waiter, who was unfazed.Then they slammed us the bill with 15% mandatory service charge. The entire meal should have been free!I don't know why cockroach seems to follow me to restaurants (see my previous Amarin Thai review). I have had enough of it. I am going to file a complain to the local Department of Environmental Health.
	Reviewed by : Michael G. On: 10/18/2012 1:21:00 PM Nothing special but good and spicy. Fair prices.
	Reviewed by : Sean B. On: 10/4/2012 12:01:00 AM Overall, I found this place to be quite average. The authenticity is not in question, the quality... I don't know. Didn't blow me away. And I'm rather a purist when it comes to ethnic cuisine.Flavors, textures, nothing really popped. I could take it or leave it. It was average in cost, the aesthetics of the place were very middle-of-the-road-busy-Chinese-restaurant.Nothing really compelled me to return.
	Reviewed by : Eric T. On: 9/28/2012 1:28:00 PM Food here was sure very spicy! Not for people who couldn't take it. I almost died +_+. But, the taste was not bad!
	Reviewed by : Darren S. On: 9/25/2012 3:15:00 PM We went back last night and ordered some food. DRY BRAISED PRAWNS, PORK FRIED RICE, and BROCCOLI W/GARLIC. Oh, and PORK FRIED RICE. I liked everything, especially the prawns. I will keep going back to explore the menu.
	Reviewed by : Shelly C. On: 9/20/2012 11:54:00 AM Enjoyed the dishes very much and chatted with the owner. Very impressed to learn that they only have two chefs for such a decent sized restaurant. The owner said, in the busiest time, they calculated that each chef could make 80 dishes/hr. They mix all the sauce on spot. I can't imagine how they do it. The owner is one of the chefs and he makes authentic Hunan food.
	Reviewed by : donna t. On: 9/5/2012 6:56:00 AM It is one of the best Chinese restaurants in Bay Area.It has authentic Chinese foods. The food is not as spicy as before, but it is still better than other Chinese restaurants.Recommend: seafood tofu; white pepper and five layer pork(belly)
	Reviewed by : Yiran W. On: 8/9/2012 2:49:00 AM The dishes is authentic Hunan cuisine. The dishes are good, based on the price level.A point is that this place is not so crowed, maybe because of not at a convenient location.
	Reviewed by : Nidhi J. On: 8/6/2012 12:27:00 PM Went here with for a team lunch and what a disappointment.We had two separate tables since the party was a big one, the order was placed at the same time for both the tables but not sure why our table had entrees sent in installments. We got served one entree at a time with no rice or noodles. The service was questionable and the staff seemed to be over worked.The food quality was equally questionable, the Mongolian Beef was cold and the meat was not even cooked fully. All the entrees were tasteless. We didn't get a few entrees we ordered and still got charged for them. We had to remind to have our missing entree served to us.A very bad Hunan Chinese Cuisine experience.
	Reviewed by : R N. On: 5/22/2012 8:56:00 AM Husband and I were planning to go to Layang Layang, which is right next door, but we got there he changed his mind and wanted to go here instead.We ordered Fish in chili sauce (item 114 in the menu) and General Tso chicken. The lady got us us beef in chili sauce instead of fish. When I told my husband he's like "no this must be a different kind of fish, just eat". Mind you this is coming from a guy who grew up vegetarian and only started eating meat and fish in college, needless to say I did not trust him. When pointed out to the lady (who seemed like the owner) she took it away and brought us fish. It was really yummy, and if cannot handle spicy food this is not for you. Lots of oil, but yummy.General Tso's chicken on the other hand, was meh. My husband liked it, but I thought I spelled the old oil it was deep fried in, and also it was not appetizing to look at.
	Reviewed by : Nityananda J. On: 5/7/2012 4:27:00 PM This is place is seriously Chinese! They have menus in Chinese, have those big round revolving tables and serve hot Chinese tea when you sit down and complimentary Hot and Sour soup when you order. Its my colleague's favorite chinese place near work (he happens to be a middle aged man from China and a long time bay area resident, so I reckon he has searched around for good restaurants - besides, he is also that type :-P)They have pretty comprehensive menus with every kind of legal meat available (i think). Ambiance is pretty impressive with the decor being mostly Chinese. They also have a large fish tank in one-corner where they keep poor suckers before taking them in for the kill.The food was great. Although they had a section for veggie food in the menu, the waitress offered to customize my order even if it was not in the menu. Since I had a bunch of other veggies with me, we ended up ordering stuff from the menu: string beans, eggplant, braised tofu along with chow mien and fried rice. The portions are very big (we realized this after they brought in our first order). They also give free white rice with the order. You end up feeling very stuffed and still have plenty of food to take-home (or back to work). Constantly sip on the hot tea as is done traditionally. The food was kinda greasy, so I would not recommend this as a regular lunch spot.Prices are very affordable. We had a mix of vegetarians and non-veggies (around 10 people). The tab turned out to be around 20 dollars a head. For the quantity they serve, its definitely great value for money.All in all, Chili palace is definitely a must try at least once kinda place. Since I work nearby, its an explore the menu kinda place :-P
	Reviewed by : Anthony L. On: 5/1/2012 6:20:00 PM We came here for lunch because it was our 2nd choice. We originally wanted to have one of the other places in the same plaza, but the long was too long.We stopped into this place because the line was shorter but that wasn't such a good idea.The service was quite slow and they made us share a table. The food was only ok. I wouldn't say it was anything special.The part that bugged us the most is that they already brought us our bill and put it in front of us before our food was served. We noticed the other couple which we had to share a table with got their food before us, but they didn't get their bill to the end.
	Reviewed by : Warren M. On: 3/12/2012 8:37:00 PM Ok I usually don't find Chinese food spicy... but yes these guys do make it to a level that I would really appreciate. We took one Mongolian Lamb and one hot chili sauce fish fillet. I was hoping for spicy hopping mad chili when I saw all the red sauce but it was alright thats why - the one star less of five.The Mongolian lamb was good in quantity and I loved the spring onions that come mixed with it. The fish fillet hot chili sauce came in a huge bowl and when my friend was done with the fish, I think we could still feed a small village somewhere back home in India.If there is anything I won't try its the iced coffee it tastes like cough syrup :P.The ambience is more life a family restaurant.. pretty casual ... I guess we were the only Indians in the restaurant. And yes we did behave :)
	Reviewed by : william808 On: 2010-05-31 This restaurant is famous for the fine preparation of dishes, which are seasonable and excellent in colour, smell, taste and form.

Reviewed by : Tj L. On: 2/17/2013 6:37:00 AM

Reviewed by : Nicole R. On: 2/9/2013 1:35:00 PM

Reviewed by : Hui L. On: 2/9/2013 9:11:00 AM

Reviewed by : Prince A. On: 1/22/2013 1:19:00 AM

Reviewed by : Peggy S. On: 1/11/2013 4:17:00 PM

Reviewed by : keith c. On: 1/4/2013 7:45:00 AM

Reviewed by : Xin W. On: 12/31/2012 7:49:00 AM

Reviewed by : Kevin T. On: 11/29/2012 5:13:00 AM

Reviewed by : Michael G. On: 10/18/2012 1:21:00 PM

Reviewed by : Sean B. On: 10/4/2012 12:01:00 AM

Reviewed by : Eric T. On: 9/28/2012 1:28:00 PM

Reviewed by : Darren S. On: 9/25/2012 3:15:00 PM

Reviewed by : Shelly C. On: 9/20/2012 11:54:00 AM

Reviewed by : donna t. On: 9/5/2012 6:56:00 AM

Reviewed by : Yiran W. On: 8/9/2012 2:49:00 AM

Reviewed by : Nidhi J. On: 8/6/2012 12:27:00 PM

Reviewed by : R N. On: 5/22/2012 8:56:00 AM

Reviewed by : Nityananda J. On: 5/7/2012 4:27:00 PM

Reviewed by : Anthony L. On: 5/1/2012 6:20:00 PM

Reviewed by : Warren M. On: 3/12/2012 8:37:00 PM

Reviewed by : william808 On: 2010-05-31