Ah Fong Kitchen Menu

  • Lunch Specials
  • Appetizers
  • Soup
  • Wonton Boiled Noodle Soup
  • Seafood
  • Beef
  • Chicken
  • Pork
  • Vegetable/Tofu
  • Sizzling Platters
  • Chow Mein & Chow Fun
  • Fried Rice
  • Special Clay Pot
  • Combination Plate
  • Family Style Dinners
  • Side Orders
  • Misc.
  • Drinks
  • Place Settings And Utensils
  • Discounts And Credits

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  • Lunch Specials
  • Appetizers
  • Soup
  • Wonton Boiled Noodle Soup
  • Seafood
  • Beef
  • Chicken
  • Pork
  • Vegetable/Tofu
  • Sizzling Platters
  • Chow Mein & Chow Fun
  • Fried Rice
  • Special Clay Pot
  • Combination Plate
  • Family Style Dinners
  • Side Orders
  • Misc.
  • Drinks
  • Place Settings And Utensils
  • Discounts And Credits

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  • Dick D.

    This is one of the places which they will give you a different menu depended on who you are. Due to Dick Darlington's noble bearing they automatically assumed that I wanted an Americanized Chinese menu. Lucky, I rectified the situation and they brought me the authentic Chinese menu. They were concerned that I couldn't read Chinese. Little did they know that I am a worldly gentleman who is fluent in multiple languages both in their oral and written forms. I ordered a set of authentic Chinese dishes from their Chinese menu and they did not disappoint. The food arrived quickly and was all well executed. Mind you that this is not fancy food just basic yet authentic Chinese family cooking. Warmest regards, Richard Edward Rupert Darlington

    (4)
  • Cindy G.

    Stopped in for lunch today. Really fast service. Food was good. The chop suey was excellent.

    (5)
  • Xavier B.

    Best Chinese food! Asian friends love it! Great prices and great service! Might look sketchy on the outside but awesome on the inside!

    (5)
  • Benjamin K.

    After living near Ah Fong for some years we finally tried it tonight and were delighted by hands down some of the best Chinese Food we have had in Portland. Usually with Chinese there will be one item that's so so but everything here tasted great and the quantities were large. I really enjoyed the Mongolian Beef and Sweet and Sour Chicken.

    (4)
  • Nick W.

    When we went to Ah Fong, we were expecting dive-y but at least somewhat authentically chinese-american (as far as that will get you) Chinese food. Unfortunately, we got some sort of muddled mess, which came with ketchup and yellow mustard in a yin-yang dish, very bland food (I ordered something labeled as "spicy" which was not even mildly so (I dunno, do green peppers and onions count as "hot"?); my wife asked for chili oil and got siracha sauce), and forks after we specifically declined. Then a chinese group sat down a table or two away, and we realized they got a completely different menu and we realized that our menu hadn't had any chinese on it. I'm used to going to places like this where there are occasionally things where you need to ask specifically for them or where the waiter will suggest you won't like it/ask if you've had it before, but I've never felt more talked down to in a dive in my life. The staff was relatively fast/pleasant, though, and I'd recommend the mongolian beef as pretty good (though not remotely hot) if you happen to go there.

    (2)
  • Michael B.

    This is 4 stars for what it is./ Quick, pretty good Chinese food on 82nd. The building is a bit run down but the waitress was super nice and funny. Again I was hassled for ordering too much food. This is a running occurrence at Chinese restaurants for me. We had the beef fried rice, general Tso's chicken, and some dry fried green beans. Everything came out pretty quickly and had good flavor. The green beans were the standout. I do not like them but these were pretty tasty. They had very little to no sauce but an intense flavor. This will be my new go to "just got off an airplane and need to eat now" place.

    (4)
  • Bachtuyet L.

    I've had two things here. One is good. One is terrible. Let's start with the good. 1. Snow pea leaves with garlic. Realistically, this dish couldn't be butchered and if a restaurant manages to fudge this one up. Man... they should get a gold star for failure. Anyway, the dish is good. If you are feeling lazy and you want some veggies I'd recommend this dish. It's just what the name implies... snow pea leaves with garlic. At home I'd add chopped garlic to oil until slightly golden and then add the leaves. I'm assuming they do it the same here and then flavor it to taste. Yep.. can't mess it up. 2. The bad. The horrible. The WTF. Spicy crispy squid. YUCK. We asked for it extra crispy and it was STILL soggy. Terrible. Really, truly, terrible. Only saving grace was that the white onions were sweet. The batter was not good, the seasoning was too salty and unevenly distributed. I had a hankering for salted peper squid and this place totally disappointed me :'( Overall, in a bind, I'd come here for the snow pea. However, I forgot to mention that it costs $10! WTF, that's a lot for a veggie dish. So, I wouldn't do it often. Other than that, I probably wouldn't try anything else here.

    (2)
  • Julie C.

    We are Ah Fong's regular customers. The out side of the restaurant may not look very attractive, but the cook really know how to cook a lot of yummy Cantonese food. YOU have to ask for the special Chinese menu. Their salt n pepper fish, Singapore chow fun, chinese bok chop n mushroom, Peking pork (extra crispy) n many other dishes in that menu r delicious. Even if u can't read chinese just ask the waitress to translate for u. All the good dishes r in that menu n most dish only cost 7.95 each. The waitress is really nice every time we r here. Jc^^

    (5)
  • Winnie F.

    This review is 100% based on the Chinese-Chinese food. Family style. None of those American-Chinese sweet and sour chicken stuff. The kind where you DON'T get a fortune cookie. Here it goes! You can bring your own seafood and the chef can cook it for you, which is amazing! Love Chinese style seafood. Their fish/oyster dishes are awesome- great price and good portions. Special pricing dishes are around $7-8, generous portion and cooked fresh. Not refrigerated, fresh out of the kitchen. All of the items on the special pricing are delicious. Pretty much tried them all. Unlimited rice, attentive and funny waitress, free long soup (which is AMAZING!), fruit and/or Chinese dessert. Never met the chef/owner but he can definitely cook some traditional Chinese dishes. The interior looks like it could use an upgrade or remodeling, but it's very family friendly and it's cleaner than most restaurants!

    (5)
  • Katherine M.

    I was feeling extremely lazy the other night, so we decided to get some Chinese food from Ah Fong Kitchen through Delivered Dish. We got the kung pao shrimp, vegetable chow mein, and crab puffs. All of them were your standard Americanized Chinese fare: greasy and satisfying. One thing that I really liked was the amount of food you get. The kung pao shrimp I got could last me at least four meals with rice. It was mostly vegetables though, but I still got a decent amount of shrimp. I'll definitely get delivery from them again since they have decent prices, good food, and big portions.

    (3)
  • Mic R.

    Just tried to call in a take out order. 3 calls over 10 minutes and no answer. Last one rang for 2 minutes straight. Are they out of business? Food was decent last time, but if you can't order it then.... Still trying to find my go-to Chinise place near 68th & E Burnside after 8 months :(

    (2)
  • Bogdan N.

    Some (admittedly subjective) tips: 1) avoid dishes with the word "sizzling" in them (especially if it concerns beef). They either don't "sizzle" those enough or it feels like those cows have been freely roaming the vast South-American pastures containing life-threatening quantities of Hevea brasiliensis (rubber) trees. 2) go for less-authentic dishes on the menu (general tso / orange / kung pao chicken, spring rolls, etc.) since it's awfully hard to screw those up. 3) if you must have meat, go for either chicken or pork, unless you have time you are willing to devote to digesting their jaw-stretching beef offerings. But then again, if you "must" have quality meat in your daily ration, Chinese restaurants are probably not of particular interest to you. This would be a perfect date spot for those introverts among us (myself included). Order beef and you can chew your way through the entire date without saying much and stressing out. At least you'll have something else to blame it on besides your questionable personality traits.

    (3)
  • Jodi C.

    Ah fong! I forgot to put the load of laundry in the dryer... Ah fong! Did you see that guy just totally cut me off? Ah fong! That is a buttload of fried rice on your plate. Can I have some? Every time I drive past the ginormous Ah Fong (!) sign on 82nd Ave, a bit of my road rage is depleted temporarily. Basically because the name on the sign sounds like some form of censored expletive. Fong! I stubbed my toe. Know what I'm saying? So as I drive the long, tedious pedestrian- and street light-crammed hellacious road known as Shady Second, I entertain myself with that one colorful word: Fung. "What the fung are you doing? Use your turn signal next time!" "That is one funging ugly crackhead..." "When the fung did that coffee shop open?" It's miles of entertainment. But perhaps I shouldn't poke fun of the word, as I believe it's the name of the family who owns the restaurant. I finally made it out to Ah Fong with the intention of doing more than creating slander out of the name: I was on a Chinese food bender, and I went to the right place. It IS a bit funky when you walk in, through a corridor, pass a video poker room, and go through another door. As an added bonus to the ethnic cuisine, apparently guests also get to enjoy this free "maze" upon coming and going. Yey! It's a traditional Chinese restaurant: Cute, giggly Chinese server, one lone Chinese chef slaving away in the kitchen (no doubt shouting "Ah fong!" every time he burns a finger...), Chinese and non-Chinese patrons shoveling mounds of Chinese food into their cheeks. It's all very... Chinese. Which is cool with me. I've always been a fan of the Chinese style of serving food. It's something I can't do at home because a.) I'm limited to maybe three bowls, b.) glass and I don't get along. We're bitter enemies, and I'm very skilled at breaking glass. So to go out to a traditional style restaurant that has the red lanterns hanging from the ceiling and the white table clothes dressing the round tables and the rotating centertpiece so everyone can share the diverse food... Well, it's a joy. The ambiance is a bit funky and small, but it suits me just fine. The server and chef were more than happy to assure all of my food was made without egg. And the amount of food that ended up on the table was enough for a small village. We almost had to move to a bigger table. Seriously. My friend got a heaping pile of kung pao chicken, pork fried rice, sweet and sour chicken, and an eggroll for $7. My fried rice, vegetable soup, and spring rolls were all yummy. Not mind-blowing, but not dull either. A few hours later, I've still got a distended abdomen and two full containers of food awaiting the Second Coming. Ah fong, look out...

    (4)
  • Phoebe T.

    For a place that looks really raggedy & jacked up this place served A-OK chinese food. The only reason why I didn't give it a 4 or a 5 is because it's REALLY greasy & honestly, I've had better chinese food. I went here with a couple of my girlfriends & my boyfriend (of course; like always) & I had ordered the "#1", which was fried rice, sweet & sour chicken & this chow mein noodle thing (can't remember)... For only $8.95, it wasn't bad... It was very filling, but idk if I can say that it was a good filling because a couple hours later... I had the "runs"... Literally. The waitress there was very friendly, but I noticed that since there wasn't that many people there she was very chatty & kept coming to our table to chop it up lol. But that was fine with me. :) Overall this place deserves a 3 star... 1 for service, 1 for food, 1 for price. 'Nuff said.

    (3)
  • Clarkitty C.

    Don't let the shabby exterior fool you. This place is wonderful. The waitress was super friendly and helpful. The food was hot, fresh, crispy, and delicious. They let us modify any dish we wanted without any complaints and the food is very inexpensive. The inside is definitely nicer than the outside, but hey who cares....if they have great food then thats what I came for anyways right? The General Tao's Chicken was fantastic featuring all white meat chicken with the perfect amount of batter surrounding cooked to crisp perfection. Don't get me started on the sauce........makes your mouth moan. I added broccoli to mine for a small charge and it was even better. Salt and Pepper Calamari was great as well as the Shrimp Stuffed Eggplant. I recommend this to anyone in the area who is looking for a great chinese food restaurant. Even better is the fact that you can now have Ah Fong Kitchen delivered to your front door through Delivered Dish. So if you would rather eat from your own couch or table you can!

    (5)
  • Jando S.

    Ah Fong is your average standard mom-n-pop Cantonese & Seafood Chinese dive. It's one of those places that is frequented more for it's Chinese-American variety, but they also have the "other menu" for their Chinese patrons. The bottom line? Everything is cheap and good. The decor won't impress anyone, in fact, I would say minimalistic is a great / wrong way to describe this place. It doesn't look like the fast food joint that used to occupy the spot, that's for sure. I still think there is a drive through window on the left side of the restaurant, but that might be sealed up already. The place despite being on the smaller side, is well equipped to handle larger groups though anything beyond 6 may be pushing it. The tables are clean and the place is well maintained, even the bathrooms are solid. The food is good and the prices are extremely reasonable. A large hot and sour soup only ran us for $5.99 and an entire Crispy Chicken (Zha Zi Ji) was a mere $10.95. That sounds like a lot, but the portion size was good enough to feed 5 people, so that works out just fine. Also on their hot list is a decent attempt at Honey Spareribs (Tian Dao Pai Gu) and Fish Beancurd Soup (Mei Yu Dou Fu). However, the rest of the stuff that I've sampled here was pretty subpar to say the least. That said, on their busiest nights they have quite a few Chinese customers. And on their empty nights, this place is nearly dead. Don't let it stop you from wanting to come out here. The exclusive parking is spacious and the service is fabulous. They try hard to please the customer, but make sure to ask about the specials or recommendations from the staff. Don't be discouraged to order Chinese American dishes either, as I'm told they make a mean General Tso / Kung Pao Chicken.

    (3)
  • Yeah I.

    Great service and food

    (5)
  • fon z.

    We found this place purely by accident a year ago coming back from a hike on mt hood. The road was blocked from some accident/construction and we couldnt make it to the place we wanted to go and ended up here. Judging from the exterior of this place, I would have never stopped in. It looks like a very bad american chinese place. The sign looked like one of those chinese take outs from that movie "dude where's my car." ( dont judge me for watching that movie cuz I watched after surgery and being heavily medicate). The food here however is really authentic. The price is so good we generally order 2 dishes per person (again, dont judge me, I just love to eat). The food is pretty authentic cantonese style food. I love the fact they serve you a free chicken/herb soup at the beginning for free, which they do in canton/hongkong. Everything is pretty good, but the fish here is aweful. It's frozen fish thats seved hard and dull. Avoid the fish if you come here. If I was to rate this place based on the quality found in china I would give it a 1 star. 2 star if I was comparing to chinese food found in North America. 3 star if compared to most big cities in America. and 4 stars in portland.

    (4)
  • Al M.

    So my girlfriend and I were very hungry yesterday. I set out to get food at Ah Fong Chinese restaurant, and it was a good decision. We ate so much that I'm pretty sure my stomach was full the next day. She is sitting there on the bed right now, laughing at me as I'm dictating this. But in fact the the case remains that there was a shit-ton of food, it was delicious, served hot, and served to the specifications that we ordered it in. Yet there she is, still looking at me like "you, crazy man." So yes we got the beef fried rice, chicken fried rice, Shezuan(?) beef, broccoli beef, and hot and sour soup. She also got an order of crab puffs which I thought were fortune cookies when they came, which was really funny because in fact there were no fortune cookies in the order. Even though they were given to us in a big box labeled "Chinese fortune cookies, box of 350". How ironic. When I called for the pickup order I asked for the food to be extra spicy. I actually told the woman on the other end of the phone that if I was crying and there were tears streaming down my cheeks I would be a happy man. They did this, even for items that were normally supposed to be spicy such as my broccoli beef. I'm very pleased with this. Altogether, this massive amount of food cost is a whopping $42.00, which is absolutely acceptable for the massive amount of food that we got. We got so much food in fact, that my beagle ate the pizza from two days ago, because neither of us wanted it and he figured out how to jump up onto the counter, again... Delicious food, piping hot, close, reasonably priced, and generally superior to anything else in the immediate vicinity. Not to mention, they have a funny name which makes me laugh. It may be the massive amount of alcohol talking, but I have no problem going back there over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over again.

    (5)
  • Rebecca H.

    This is the kind of place that you drive by and say, "Ick, I'd never eat there." It looks grimy, like it was a different restaurant eons ago and it went out of business and then became Ah Fong. There's a 21 and older room for gambling that looks like a converted utility closet. It's just weird. That being said, the people working there are really nice. We got there a little after 3 pm, and the lunch menu stops at 3pm, but they still let us order from the lunch special menu. +1 had the Hong Kong beef, he said it was like tomato beef and way too sweet. I had the Mongolian Beef and Sweet and Sour Chicken. I love the sweet and sour sauce; there is no food in nature that has that sickly pink glow and I derive great pleasure from eating a substance that must be constructed of nothing naturally occurring on this planet. It was good. The Mongolian Beef was ok, definitely a less than prime cut is used because the beef has that chewy, gum like quality that makes lunch last awhile. The hot and sour soup was surprisingly good. I can't argue with the price, under 12 bucks for both of us, pre tip. Would I go back? Probably not. We noted that there were people there who spoke Chinese, and they could have been Chinese, although I suck at guessing Asian nationalities so I'll leave that for somebody else to decide. The Chinese speakers seemed to be eating things we didn't see on the menu. That seems to be our experience of most Chinese restaurants; what everybody else is eating looks so much better than what we are eating. Like when we go to dim sum with our Chinese speaking friend we get stuff that never seems to be on the carts being wheeled around, and always tastes better than the stuff we order when we go by ourselves. Anyway, it looks like there could be some really great stuff there, we just don't know how to get it. They do have dim sum, but we got there too late to try it.

    (3)
  • Susan M.

    I have been eating at Ah Fong now for the past thirty five years.... they have very good fresh made dishes. The service is very quick and the atmosphere it okay.... so I usually order to go and pick it up. The make the very best egg foo young in the city and family fried special rice by far! You can go many places and spend more and get less with not even the flavor this place has. If you want a good meal .... don't miss Ah Fong! Susan M

    (5)
  • Coco L.

    hole in the wall kind of place. Decent food for the price, picked up some to go from here. Their Peking ribs is not bad :) fast and quick service!

    (3)
  • Don B.

    I moved in 2 doors down from this place and was immediately skeptical. Looks old and dingy and americanized like many of the "Chinese and American" food places on 82nd. Well, it's not. I am pretty stoked to have this place on my block. They do a pretty good job of avoiding the usual greasy-noodle-and-salty-sweet-stir-fry paradigm of Portland Chinese food.. They have a dry sauteed green bean dish that is the closest thing I have found to real Chinese here (yeah, I have been to China, the food is WAY better there). Their Kung Pao is pretty decent. They have a super veggie with tofu that's medocore, but still blows the pants off the MSG laden crap that is usually passed off as Chinese here. With 100+ choices on the menu, I have not even scratch the surface of what they have to offer, but the fact that they can get kung pao and green beans right makes me curious to try for more. Thank god I am finally finding some decent Chinese food here in Portland. Most of the Chinese I have sampled in this town is pure crap (similar to PF Changs and worse). I may up my rating to 4 star once I try more (if the Green Beans are any indication of what is to come). Oh, and avoid the Saigon Style Rice Noodles. Fairly tasteless.

    (3)
  • Minna S.

    Personally, I would give this place a solid three stars, but the extra star is because every time my parents are in town, we always end up eating here. Like everyone else has already observed, Ah Fong is a bit dingy/sketchy looking from the outside. Inside (once you get past the retro-fitted 21+ entrance to the lounge area) is much better. They have what is probably the strongest AC unit on all of 82nd (avoid the table near the middle of the room off to the right if you are sensitive to gusty cold air blowing on you constantly!). You can tell that the Chinese menu of dishes posted on the east wall is much longer than the one in English post on the west wall. My father noted on our last visit that the price on at least one of the dishes was also different. He didn't really make a big deal about it (or ask about it) though, because he likes the people there. We always get the clay pot dish with eggplant, chicken, and little bits of salted fish. The salted fish is incredibly potent (I think it's slightly fermented/preserved in salt) so a little goes a long way - and it is what lends the dish almost all of its flavor. Dad wrote me a cheat sheet of some more of the dishes we tend to get there (usually a steamed fish of some sort, and then another dish with black bean sauce (sometimes beef, this last time it was clams)). You can order good food here without the translator present (and we have) but I feel more comfortable when the 'rents are making the selections. Now I can just point at my ragged little notebook like a loon to get the dishes I want. The slight embarrassment is totally worth the food. Another dish we get pretty regularly is the beef and bitter melon. This last time the bitter melon was pretty daggum bitter, though, so caveat comestor.

    (4)
  • Jme P.

    its good and the costumer service is amazing!! If your'e looking for traditional american style you wont find it here.

    (4)
  • Erin O.

    Located on scenic SE 82nd, this place looks like a run down, long vacant burger king, the employees speak as little English as I do Chinese, and the decor is ghastly. The food, however, is cheap, plentiful and yum-tastic.

    (4)
  • Jeffrey L.

    Food was better than average Service was excellent Cleanliness seemed fine Price is affordable

    (3)
  • Erin O.

    Located on scenic SE 82nd, this place looks like a run down, long vacant burger king, the employees speak as little English as I do Chinese, and the decor is ghastly. The food, however, is cheap, plentiful and yum-tastic.

    (4)
  • Jeffrey L.

    Food was better than average Service was excellent Cleanliness seemed fine Price is affordable

    (3)
  • Dick D.

    This is one of the places which they will give you a different menu depended on who you are. Due to Dick Darlington's noble bearing they automatically assumed that I wanted an Americanized Chinese menu. Lucky, I rectified the situation and they brought me the authentic Chinese menu. They were concerned that I couldn't read Chinese. Little did they know that I am a worldly gentleman who is fluent in multiple languages both in their oral and written forms. I ordered a set of authentic Chinese dishes from their Chinese menu and they did not disappoint. The food arrived quickly and was all well executed. Mind you that this is not fancy food just basic yet authentic Chinese family cooking. Warmest regards, Richard Edward Rupert Darlington

    (4)
  • Cindy G.

    Stopped in for lunch today. Really fast service. Food was good. The chop suey was excellent.

    (5)
  • Xavier B.

    Best Chinese food! Asian friends love it! Great prices and great service! Might look sketchy on the outside but awesome on the inside!

    (5)
  • Benjamin K.

    After living near Ah Fong for some years we finally tried it tonight and were delighted by hands down some of the best Chinese Food we have had in Portland. Usually with Chinese there will be one item that's so so but everything here tasted great and the quantities were large. I really enjoyed the Mongolian Beef and Sweet and Sour Chicken.

    (4)
  • Bachtuyet L.

    I've had two things here. One is good. One is terrible. Let's start with the good. 1. Snow pea leaves with garlic. Realistically, this dish couldn't be butchered and if a restaurant manages to fudge this one up. Man... they should get a gold star for failure. Anyway, the dish is good. If you are feeling lazy and you want some veggies I'd recommend this dish. It's just what the name implies... snow pea leaves with garlic. At home I'd add chopped garlic to oil until slightly golden and then add the leaves. I'm assuming they do it the same here and then flavor it to taste. Yep.. can't mess it up. 2. The bad. The horrible. The WTF. Spicy crispy squid. YUCK. We asked for it extra crispy and it was STILL soggy. Terrible. Really, truly, terrible. Only saving grace was that the white onions were sweet. The batter was not good, the seasoning was too salty and unevenly distributed. I had a hankering for salted peper squid and this place totally disappointed me :'( Overall, in a bind, I'd come here for the snow pea. However, I forgot to mention that it costs $10! WTF, that's a lot for a veggie dish. So, I wouldn't do it often. Other than that, I probably wouldn't try anything else here.

    (2)
  • Julie C.

    We are Ah Fong's regular customers. The out side of the restaurant may not look very attractive, but the cook really know how to cook a lot of yummy Cantonese food. YOU have to ask for the special Chinese menu. Their salt n pepper fish, Singapore chow fun, chinese bok chop n mushroom, Peking pork (extra crispy) n many other dishes in that menu r delicious. Even if u can't read chinese just ask the waitress to translate for u. All the good dishes r in that menu n most dish only cost 7.95 each. The waitress is really nice every time we r here. Jc^^

    (5)
  • Winnie F.

    This review is 100% based on the Chinese-Chinese food. Family style. None of those American-Chinese sweet and sour chicken stuff. The kind where you DON'T get a fortune cookie. Here it goes! You can bring your own seafood and the chef can cook it for you, which is amazing! Love Chinese style seafood. Their fish/oyster dishes are awesome- great price and good portions. Special pricing dishes are around $7-8, generous portion and cooked fresh. Not refrigerated, fresh out of the kitchen. All of the items on the special pricing are delicious. Pretty much tried them all. Unlimited rice, attentive and funny waitress, free long soup (which is AMAZING!), fruit and/or Chinese dessert. Never met the chef/owner but he can definitely cook some traditional Chinese dishes. The interior looks like it could use an upgrade or remodeling, but it's very family friendly and it's cleaner than most restaurants!

    (5)
  • Nick W.

    When we went to Ah Fong, we were expecting dive-y but at least somewhat authentically chinese-american (as far as that will get you) Chinese food. Unfortunately, we got some sort of muddled mess, which came with ketchup and yellow mustard in a yin-yang dish, very bland food (I ordered something labeled as "spicy" which was not even mildly so (I dunno, do green peppers and onions count as "hot"?); my wife asked for chili oil and got siracha sauce), and forks after we specifically declined. Then a chinese group sat down a table or two away, and we realized they got a completely different menu and we realized that our menu hadn't had any chinese on it. I'm used to going to places like this where there are occasionally things where you need to ask specifically for them or where the waiter will suggest you won't like it/ask if you've had it before, but I've never felt more talked down to in a dive in my life. The staff was relatively fast/pleasant, though, and I'd recommend the mongolian beef as pretty good (though not remotely hot) if you happen to go there.

    (2)
  • Michael B.

    This is 4 stars for what it is./ Quick, pretty good Chinese food on 82nd. The building is a bit run down but the waitress was super nice and funny. Again I was hassled for ordering too much food. This is a running occurrence at Chinese restaurants for me. We had the beef fried rice, general Tso's chicken, and some dry fried green beans. Everything came out pretty quickly and had good flavor. The green beans were the standout. I do not like them but these were pretty tasty. They had very little to no sauce but an intense flavor. This will be my new go to "just got off an airplane and need to eat now" place.

    (4)
  • Mic R.

    Just tried to call in a take out order. 3 calls over 10 minutes and no answer. Last one rang for 2 minutes straight. Are they out of business? Food was decent last time, but if you can't order it then.... Still trying to find my go-to Chinise place near 68th & E Burnside after 8 months :(

    (2)
  • Phoebe T.

    For a place that looks really raggedy & jacked up this place served A-OK chinese food. The only reason why I didn't give it a 4 or a 5 is because it's REALLY greasy & honestly, I've had better chinese food. I went here with a couple of my girlfriends & my boyfriend (of course; like always) & I had ordered the "#1", which was fried rice, sweet & sour chicken & this chow mein noodle thing (can't remember)... For only $8.95, it wasn't bad... It was very filling, but idk if I can say that it was a good filling because a couple hours later... I had the "runs"... Literally. The waitress there was very friendly, but I noticed that since there wasn't that many people there she was very chatty & kept coming to our table to chop it up lol. But that was fine with me. :) Overall this place deserves a 3 star... 1 for service, 1 for food, 1 for price. 'Nuff said.

    (3)
  • Katherine M.

    I was feeling extremely lazy the other night, so we decided to get some Chinese food from Ah Fong Kitchen through Delivered Dish. We got the kung pao shrimp, vegetable chow mein, and crab puffs. All of them were your standard Americanized Chinese fare: greasy and satisfying. One thing that I really liked was the amount of food you get. The kung pao shrimp I got could last me at least four meals with rice. It was mostly vegetables though, but I still got a decent amount of shrimp. I'll definitely get delivery from them again since they have decent prices, good food, and big portions.

    (3)
  • Bogdan N.

    Some (admittedly subjective) tips: 1) avoid dishes with the word "sizzling" in them (especially if it concerns beef). They either don't "sizzle" those enough or it feels like those cows have been freely roaming the vast South-American pastures containing life-threatening quantities of Hevea brasiliensis (rubber) trees. 2) go for less-authentic dishes on the menu (general tso / orange / kung pao chicken, spring rolls, etc.) since it's awfully hard to screw those up. 3) if you must have meat, go for either chicken or pork, unless you have time you are willing to devote to digesting their jaw-stretching beef offerings. But then again, if you "must" have quality meat in your daily ration, Chinese restaurants are probably not of particular interest to you. This would be a perfect date spot for those introverts among us (myself included). Order beef and you can chew your way through the entire date without saying much and stressing out. At least you'll have something else to blame it on besides your questionable personality traits.

    (3)
  • Susan M.

    I have been eating at Ah Fong now for the past thirty five years.... they have very good fresh made dishes. The service is very quick and the atmosphere it okay.... so I usually order to go and pick it up. The make the very best egg foo young in the city and family fried special rice by far! You can go many places and spend more and get less with not even the flavor this place has. If you want a good meal .... don't miss Ah Fong! Susan M

    (5)
  • Coco L.

    hole in the wall kind of place. Decent food for the price, picked up some to go from here. Their Peking ribs is not bad :) fast and quick service!

    (3)
  • Jodi C.

    Ah fong! I forgot to put the load of laundry in the dryer... Ah fong! Did you see that guy just totally cut me off? Ah fong! That is a buttload of fried rice on your plate. Can I have some? Every time I drive past the ginormous Ah Fong (!) sign on 82nd Ave, a bit of my road rage is depleted temporarily. Basically because the name on the sign sounds like some form of censored expletive. Fong! I stubbed my toe. Know what I'm saying? So as I drive the long, tedious pedestrian- and street light-crammed hellacious road known as Shady Second, I entertain myself with that one colorful word: Fung. "What the fung are you doing? Use your turn signal next time!" "That is one funging ugly crackhead..." "When the fung did that coffee shop open?" It's miles of entertainment. But perhaps I shouldn't poke fun of the word, as I believe it's the name of the family who owns the restaurant. I finally made it out to Ah Fong with the intention of doing more than creating slander out of the name: I was on a Chinese food bender, and I went to the right place. It IS a bit funky when you walk in, through a corridor, pass a video poker room, and go through another door. As an added bonus to the ethnic cuisine, apparently guests also get to enjoy this free "maze" upon coming and going. Yey! It's a traditional Chinese restaurant: Cute, giggly Chinese server, one lone Chinese chef slaving away in the kitchen (no doubt shouting "Ah fong!" every time he burns a finger...), Chinese and non-Chinese patrons shoveling mounds of Chinese food into their cheeks. It's all very... Chinese. Which is cool with me. I've always been a fan of the Chinese style of serving food. It's something I can't do at home because a.) I'm limited to maybe three bowls, b.) glass and I don't get along. We're bitter enemies, and I'm very skilled at breaking glass. So to go out to a traditional style restaurant that has the red lanterns hanging from the ceiling and the white table clothes dressing the round tables and the rotating centertpiece so everyone can share the diverse food... Well, it's a joy. The ambiance is a bit funky and small, but it suits me just fine. The server and chef were more than happy to assure all of my food was made without egg. And the amount of food that ended up on the table was enough for a small village. We almost had to move to a bigger table. Seriously. My friend got a heaping pile of kung pao chicken, pork fried rice, sweet and sour chicken, and an eggroll for $7. My fried rice, vegetable soup, and spring rolls were all yummy. Not mind-blowing, but not dull either. A few hours later, I've still got a distended abdomen and two full containers of food awaiting the Second Coming. Ah fong, look out...

    (4)
  • Clarkitty C.

    Don't let the shabby exterior fool you. This place is wonderful. The waitress was super friendly and helpful. The food was hot, fresh, crispy, and delicious. They let us modify any dish we wanted without any complaints and the food is very inexpensive. The inside is definitely nicer than the outside, but hey who cares....if they have great food then thats what I came for anyways right? The General Tao's Chicken was fantastic featuring all white meat chicken with the perfect amount of batter surrounding cooked to crisp perfection. Don't get me started on the sauce........makes your mouth moan. I added broccoli to mine for a small charge and it was even better. Salt and Pepper Calamari was great as well as the Shrimp Stuffed Eggplant. I recommend this to anyone in the area who is looking for a great chinese food restaurant. Even better is the fact that you can now have Ah Fong Kitchen delivered to your front door through Delivered Dish. So if you would rather eat from your own couch or table you can!

    (5)
  • Jando S.

    Ah Fong is your average standard mom-n-pop Cantonese & Seafood Chinese dive. It's one of those places that is frequented more for it's Chinese-American variety, but they also have the "other menu" for their Chinese patrons. The bottom line? Everything is cheap and good. The decor won't impress anyone, in fact, I would say minimalistic is a great / wrong way to describe this place. It doesn't look like the fast food joint that used to occupy the spot, that's for sure. I still think there is a drive through window on the left side of the restaurant, but that might be sealed up already. The place despite being on the smaller side, is well equipped to handle larger groups though anything beyond 6 may be pushing it. The tables are clean and the place is well maintained, even the bathrooms are solid. The food is good and the prices are extremely reasonable. A large hot and sour soup only ran us for $5.99 and an entire Crispy Chicken (Zha Zi Ji) was a mere $10.95. That sounds like a lot, but the portion size was good enough to feed 5 people, so that works out just fine. Also on their hot list is a decent attempt at Honey Spareribs (Tian Dao Pai Gu) and Fish Beancurd Soup (Mei Yu Dou Fu). However, the rest of the stuff that I've sampled here was pretty subpar to say the least. That said, on their busiest nights they have quite a few Chinese customers. And on their empty nights, this place is nearly dead. Don't let it stop you from wanting to come out here. The exclusive parking is spacious and the service is fabulous. They try hard to please the customer, but make sure to ask about the specials or recommendations from the staff. Don't be discouraged to order Chinese American dishes either, as I'm told they make a mean General Tso / Kung Pao Chicken.

    (3)
  • Yeah I.

    Great service and food

    (5)
  • fon z.

    We found this place purely by accident a year ago coming back from a hike on mt hood. The road was blocked from some accident/construction and we couldnt make it to the place we wanted to go and ended up here. Judging from the exterior of this place, I would have never stopped in. It looks like a very bad american chinese place. The sign looked like one of those chinese take outs from that movie "dude where's my car." ( dont judge me for watching that movie cuz I watched after surgery and being heavily medicate). The food here however is really authentic. The price is so good we generally order 2 dishes per person (again, dont judge me, I just love to eat). The food is pretty authentic cantonese style food. I love the fact they serve you a free chicken/herb soup at the beginning for free, which they do in canton/hongkong. Everything is pretty good, but the fish here is aweful. It's frozen fish thats seved hard and dull. Avoid the fish if you come here. If I was to rate this place based on the quality found in china I would give it a 1 star. 2 star if I was comparing to chinese food found in North America. 3 star if compared to most big cities in America. and 4 stars in portland.

    (4)
  • Al M.

    So my girlfriend and I were very hungry yesterday. I set out to get food at Ah Fong Chinese restaurant, and it was a good decision. We ate so much that I'm pretty sure my stomach was full the next day. She is sitting there on the bed right now, laughing at me as I'm dictating this. But in fact the the case remains that there was a shit-ton of food, it was delicious, served hot, and served to the specifications that we ordered it in. Yet there she is, still looking at me like "you, crazy man." So yes we got the beef fried rice, chicken fried rice, Shezuan(?) beef, broccoli beef, and hot and sour soup. She also got an order of crab puffs which I thought were fortune cookies when they came, which was really funny because in fact there were no fortune cookies in the order. Even though they were given to us in a big box labeled "Chinese fortune cookies, box of 350". How ironic. When I called for the pickup order I asked for the food to be extra spicy. I actually told the woman on the other end of the phone that if I was crying and there were tears streaming down my cheeks I would be a happy man. They did this, even for items that were normally supposed to be spicy such as my broccoli beef. I'm very pleased with this. Altogether, this massive amount of food cost is a whopping $42.00, which is absolutely acceptable for the massive amount of food that we got. We got so much food in fact, that my beagle ate the pizza from two days ago, because neither of us wanted it and he figured out how to jump up onto the counter, again... Delicious food, piping hot, close, reasonably priced, and generally superior to anything else in the immediate vicinity. Not to mention, they have a funny name which makes me laugh. It may be the massive amount of alcohol talking, but I have no problem going back there over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over again.

    (5)
  • Rebecca H.

    This is the kind of place that you drive by and say, "Ick, I'd never eat there." It looks grimy, like it was a different restaurant eons ago and it went out of business and then became Ah Fong. There's a 21 and older room for gambling that looks like a converted utility closet. It's just weird. That being said, the people working there are really nice. We got there a little after 3 pm, and the lunch menu stops at 3pm, but they still let us order from the lunch special menu. +1 had the Hong Kong beef, he said it was like tomato beef and way too sweet. I had the Mongolian Beef and Sweet and Sour Chicken. I love the sweet and sour sauce; there is no food in nature that has that sickly pink glow and I derive great pleasure from eating a substance that must be constructed of nothing naturally occurring on this planet. It was good. The Mongolian Beef was ok, definitely a less than prime cut is used because the beef has that chewy, gum like quality that makes lunch last awhile. The hot and sour soup was surprisingly good. I can't argue with the price, under 12 bucks for both of us, pre tip. Would I go back? Probably not. We noted that there were people there who spoke Chinese, and they could have been Chinese, although I suck at guessing Asian nationalities so I'll leave that for somebody else to decide. The Chinese speakers seemed to be eating things we didn't see on the menu. That seems to be our experience of most Chinese restaurants; what everybody else is eating looks so much better than what we are eating. Like when we go to dim sum with our Chinese speaking friend we get stuff that never seems to be on the carts being wheeled around, and always tastes better than the stuff we order when we go by ourselves. Anyway, it looks like there could be some really great stuff there, we just don't know how to get it. They do have dim sum, but we got there too late to try it.

    (3)
  • Don B.

    I moved in 2 doors down from this place and was immediately skeptical. Looks old and dingy and americanized like many of the "Chinese and American" food places on 82nd. Well, it's not. I am pretty stoked to have this place on my block. They do a pretty good job of avoiding the usual greasy-noodle-and-salty-sweet-stir-fry paradigm of Portland Chinese food.. They have a dry sauteed green bean dish that is the closest thing I have found to real Chinese here (yeah, I have been to China, the food is WAY better there). Their Kung Pao is pretty decent. They have a super veggie with tofu that's medocore, but still blows the pants off the MSG laden crap that is usually passed off as Chinese here. With 100+ choices on the menu, I have not even scratch the surface of what they have to offer, but the fact that they can get kung pao and green beans right makes me curious to try for more. Thank god I am finally finding some decent Chinese food here in Portland. Most of the Chinese I have sampled in this town is pure crap (similar to PF Changs and worse). I may up my rating to 4 star once I try more (if the Green Beans are any indication of what is to come). Oh, and avoid the Saigon Style Rice Noodles. Fairly tasteless.

    (3)
  • Minna S.

    Personally, I would give this place a solid three stars, but the extra star is because every time my parents are in town, we always end up eating here. Like everyone else has already observed, Ah Fong is a bit dingy/sketchy looking from the outside. Inside (once you get past the retro-fitted 21+ entrance to the lounge area) is much better. They have what is probably the strongest AC unit on all of 82nd (avoid the table near the middle of the room off to the right if you are sensitive to gusty cold air blowing on you constantly!). You can tell that the Chinese menu of dishes posted on the east wall is much longer than the one in English post on the west wall. My father noted on our last visit that the price on at least one of the dishes was also different. He didn't really make a big deal about it (or ask about it) though, because he likes the people there. We always get the clay pot dish with eggplant, chicken, and little bits of salted fish. The salted fish is incredibly potent (I think it's slightly fermented/preserved in salt) so a little goes a long way - and it is what lends the dish almost all of its flavor. Dad wrote me a cheat sheet of some more of the dishes we tend to get there (usually a steamed fish of some sort, and then another dish with black bean sauce (sometimes beef, this last time it was clams)). You can order good food here without the translator present (and we have) but I feel more comfortable when the 'rents are making the selections. Now I can just point at my ragged little notebook like a loon to get the dishes I want. The slight embarrassment is totally worth the food. Another dish we get pretty regularly is the beef and bitter melon. This last time the bitter melon was pretty daggum bitter, though, so caveat comestor.

    (4)
  • Jme P.

    its good and the costumer service is amazing!! If your'e looking for traditional american style you wont find it here.

    (4)

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Opening Hours

  • Mon :11:00 am - 9:00pm

Specialities

  • Takes Reservations : Yes
    Delivery : Yes
    Take-out : Yes
    Accepts Credit Cards : Yes
    Accepts Bitcoin : No
    Good For : Lunch
    Parking : Private Lot
    Bike Parking : No
    Wheelchair Accessible : Yes
    Good for Kids : Yes
    Good for Groups : Yes
    Attire : Casual
    Ambience : Divey
    Noise Level : Quiet
    Alcohol : Beer & Wine Only
    Outdoor Seating : No
    Wi-Fi : No
    Has TV : No
    Dogs Allowed : No
    Waiter Service : Yes
    Caters : No

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Chinese Cuisine

The popularity of Chinese food in America can be adjudicated by the appearance of China Town in many major cities in the United State of America. The popular trend of ordering or opting for Chinese take away food isn't unknown in America. Chinese take away food comes to rescue when you're too tired from work or too exhausted to cook. No one can resist the temptation of eating spicy noodles, shrimp, chicken, beef or pork cooked in the sweet and spicy sauce. The cooking method of authentic Chinese food is a lot different compared to what is served in America.

Generally, Chinese use dark meat small bones and organs to cook dishes but this changes when you are eating American-Chinese fusion food prepared using white boneless meat cooked with broccoli, carrots and onions. Back in China, the food is less spicy and oily as they favor steaming and braising method for cooking the most popular dishes. So, if you have a taste for authentic Chinese food, then try finding a real Chinese restaurant in the city. You can also try the most popular fusion Chinese food like Pecking Duck, Chicken Feet, Hot Pot, Shrimp Dumpling Soup, Mapo Tofu, Wontons, Chop Suey, Egg Rolls and not to forget Fortune Cookies.

There are not many restaurants in America serving authentic Chinese food. A little research on Restaurant Listings directory can help you locate the best Chinese restaurants in the city. Chinese cuisine is continuously evolving, and you can find a variety of dishes categorized as the food for lactose intolerant, gluten intolerant, vegan, vegetarian, and diabetic friendly. So, if you have a group of friends with different taste patterns, save the hassle and visit the nearest Chinese restaurant in your city.

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