Oriental Kitchen

Great prices and amazing variety, but it’s not the best quality sushi around. It honestly tasted like it had been sitting in a refrigerated case for a few hours even though I saw them cook it. Basically you get what you pay for.

Just as the people were saying above. Probably the BEST service around. Called in about 40 minutes before they closed and I know it’s late so I’m expecting less than stellar service. But they were even engaged with us. Making sure we were having a nice meal. For the price and the food you get. You can’t best it. He said he imports the ramen noodles from Japan too. Will be back to try other plates

Oh wow, this little gem in Daly City! How come I’ve never know?
It was another sushi roll craving time, after searching on Unilocal,my friend and I have decided to try Oriental Kitchen. Saturday evening and street parking was fairly easy. The restaurant was small but in a good size.
We ordered 4 rolls and they were pretty good. We asked the server (looks like the owner) for recommendation and he recommended us a fried sushi roll which was so different than we expected. Overall the experience was great, it’s not the best sushi rolls I’ve ever had but it was pretty good for the price. We enjoyed the server’s company and would love to come back and try other sushi rolls next time!
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This has been my favorite place to eat for the last 5 years!!! Best prices, different sushi dishes and most of all I love there combination fried rice!!! Best rice! And they’re sushi rolls!

Small intimate dining area. My wife and I discovered this place about 4 years ago for a date night. Since then it’s our GO TO for sushi. It always hits the spot. Great food that doesn’t cost you your paycheck. Karaage chicken is crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside with just the right spice. The sushi is all good! I’m a BIG fan of their dragon rolls. John the Owner/​Chef/​Server is excellent! He is a knowledgeable owner that truly appreciates his customers. His personal service along with the food quality makes this the best Sushi Restaurant!

Good ramen, good chicken wings, good sushi, good spam musubi. The owner and chef came out to check on us, very friendly and pleasant to converse with!

I frequent this place from time to time and must say that although it may not be the highest quality of sushi the owner is very passionate about the food he puts out and is always trying to invent new rolls for his menu. If you’re into super spicy food there is a spicy menu with several rolls that will make your mouth feel like it’s on fire.
The restaurant is a very small hole in the wall that can be easily missed. As I said the owner is very active and will come out and ask if you’re enjoying the food from time to time.

Kinda expensive for average lunch box bento in city. They gimme only little bit of wasabi and poor service. Not recommended.

Food: I ordered an OK Crunchy Roll to-​go, which was made up of 8 tiny pieces. It was pretty good, maybe because I was super hungry! I’ve definitely had way better, but this was still appetizing for a quick stop for lunch.
Price: I would definitely come back because many of the items on the menu are less than $ 10 and definitely affordable for my college student budget! Seeing as it was pretty simple, this particular roll was among the cheapest at $ 4.99.
Service: They said 15 minutes, but it came out within 3 – 5! Yay! Friendly staff who personally hand you your order.
Location: Extremely cramped inside, so I don’t recommend bringing a huge group. Might also be difficult to find parking if it’s a busy time, considering the street is lined with meters.
Other: They have a spicy challenge for some of their specialty rolls. If you win, you get the roll free of charge and your picture goes on their wall!

For being in Daly City, this place is good if you don’t want to drive outside of Daly City. A plus is that they have a variety of food to eat: ramen, sushi, bento boxes, phở, etc. all in 1 menu! So bring your indecisive friends and go to Oriental Kitchen, everyone will have something they’d want. Also, pretty cheap prices compared to the city (of course), so ball on a budget here, it’s A-​OK!

A secret sushi spot to get your craving on. I’m not a sushi snob, more like a tourist, and this place fits the bill without breaking the bank or making me feel stupid.
Wait staff were nice without being pushy or ignoring us. Altogether, it was a nice place to slip in for lunch.
At least during a holiday, parking was no problem.

If you or a group of your friends are looking for a decently priced place to eat and don’t know what you want, this place easily can serve up to many cravings. Oriental Kitchen offers Japanese, some Chinese dishes, and also Vietnamese food. Just looking at the menu I was overwhelmed, but I know when there’s a lot on the menu, many times the food is not often good.
When driving here for the first time, it’s easy to pass up this hole in the wall so drive carefully!
So, after already being overwhelmed with the menu choices, I went for a simple rainbow sushi roll. It’s presentation is not like it’s trying to win any awards. Taste wise, the rice seemed a bit dry and the imitation crab (which was not cut up, but just cut up sticks) tasted old and rubbery. The fresh fish that it was topped with was alright, but also the ginger and wasabi seems like it was sitting out way too long. I mean, the wasabi had a consistency of Play-​Doh. Overall, my sushi roll consisted of ingredients that has been waiting out to dry and serve.
My girlfriend also ordered fresh spring rolls which were good, but the bean sprouts inside were already starting to yellow, which shows a sign of not being fresh. She had the avocado shake with boba which was good. We expected it to be more like a shake/​smoothie, but it came out very thin like a cold iced avocado drink, not shake. Lastly, she ordered the beef meatball Phở. She said there was nothing too special about it and was plain.
Overall, we won’t go coming back. Drawn in by the decent prices, but the food quality left us feeling disappointed. I guess you pay for what you get at places like these.

My friend and I came here because we were drawn to the prices: cheap sushi rolls, bento boxes, and other entrees, rice plates, or appetizers. We decided to check this place out because it seemed kind of too good to be true.
Well, we were right. The rolls were sort of. Dinky, for the lack of a better word. They were tiny. It tasted fine, but you can tell that the fish wasn’t as fresh as it could be, hence the price.
We tried three rolls and we were still hungry, so we ordered a bento. The chicken karaage was alright. Very deep friend and the chicken katsu could be better.
We decided to give this place another shot and tried the Godzilla roll. Biggest regret of my life. It was horrendous. It was so deep fried that it was extremely hard to eat, and I wasn’t a big fan of how the fish in it tasted as well. It was a roll of deep fried everything. Don’t waste your money. You’ll be disappointed. I think the waitress sensed our disappointment because we didn’t know how to eat it and started picking what seemed… Okay to eat out of the roll.
Aside from the disappointments of this establishment, I do have to say that their Japanese curry plates are really good! I’d say go to Oriental Kitchen if you need a cheap and good Japanese curry fix. You won’t be disappointed, to say the least.
Not coming back here for a little while, but maybe if I have a curry craving.

The price is what attracts you, but when you get the rolls, you begin to understand why it’s priced slightly lower then most places. The rolls are really dinky. Like Safeway sushi sized.
I tried the Godzilla roll, and it’s quite possibly one of my greatest regrets in life. It was not appetizing at all, I was struggle to fill my stomach. I wondered if the waitress felt bad for me, as my face surely showed dissatisfaction.
The curry katsu is pretty good! I had to order well over 40 dollars worth of rolls to fill me. But the bento boxes are cool too. I wouldn’t come here just for sushi.

I don’t know why I didn’t expect more out of this place. It may be because it’s such a hole in the wall and unassuming. If you go by those things, you’ll miss out on some great sushi.
The rolls were beautiful looking and tasted fresh.

This place is very bipolar. Some days, the food taste great and some days, not so much. The very first time my boyfriend and I stopped by here, we ordered I don’t remember exactly but something close to fried rice and it came burnt. I mean like very burnt and bitter. We didn’t come back for a while until we came back from late trip and it was open so we stopped by again and the food taste decent that time. Chicken katsu bento box is crap.
Service: the older waiter is very nice and he’s always around. Once my boyfriend and I came in to order sushi to-​go and the lady working there was very rude. It was a bit crowded and we went up to the cashier to order our sushi. She didn’t even say hi and when my boyfriend ordered dragon roll, she TALKED OVER him and to the people who arrived and were lining up after us. Very upsetting. Then the older waiter had to step in because my boyfriend got very angry. The lady who works there is super rude

This place fits it’s name … just ok. Just OK sushi.
Nothing special that brings me back, just that their prices are very resonable.
Some of their sauces are good.
Let’s just say, if you’re in the mood for Sushi and have a tight budget, this is an ok place for sushi.

I always come here to pick up lunch and it’s always great. They have these little mints they give you that come with the meal that are so good I ended up buying a pack lol guava green tea mints. Sounds good right?

GoOd taste and good place to have sushi in this area for sure. I order sushi in other places nearby before and certainly this place is gonna be my favorite from now on.

Very small venue. Every time the door opens, you can expect to freeze wherever you sit. Kitchen is very dirty, looks like it hardly gets cleaned. Miso soup came with odd tasting seaweed.
Unagi was completely tasteless. Ginger was dry. Wasabi was dry, old, like it came out of a Costco jar from the fridge.
Tuna was odd looking, like they were getting rid of leftover old fish.
For the price, I could have gone to a 4 or 4.5 star place and excited the tastebuds.
Stay away.