Ah Fong Kitchen

I’ve ordered to go many times from this restaurant but finally dined in today and the experience was great and authentic.
Prompt polite service, good food and great prices

Bland food. we ordered two combination plates and an order of mongolian beef. the only thing edible on the combination plates was the fried rice. and the mongolian beef was bland and missing fried noodles.

Horrible customer service and very slow!!! I was told my order would take 15 minutes. There was 2 tables of people in the restaurant and it was not that busy. I ended up waiting 40 minutes for a to-​go lunch special at 1pm on a Thursday. The woman was very rude and didn’t even bring me the food to the hostess counter where I made my order, the same spot where people are normally given their orders. Instead, she made me walk over to the kitchen and wedge in between two close tables of people.
When I made my way over she just gave me the bag and walked away without looking at me. After checking and there was no to go silverware. I asked for some and she told me they had none. I asked for chilli oil and she said she had none to go. The only positive thing was the food, it was. Delicious which is the only reason they get a two star review.
I’m never ordering to go from here again. There are far better Chinese restaurant’s in Portland that are cleaner and do not have some sour, old, rude lady running it.

Dont know what happend to this place, but it ised to be good. They went down hill quick.
–the food is either over cooked, or not cooked enough.
–they use way too much oil. Lots of oil is common in asianic foods, but this place might as well ask of you want a side of what ever your eating with your gallon of cooking oil.
–the back door to the restaurant that leads into the kitchen is always open, and they rarely have the screen shut, of you peer in while walking by, they stack tub of chow mein noodles on the floor. Tubs that dont have lids i might add.
On my most recent visit i walked in and noticed it was mildly busy. I was aware there might be a slight wait for my order to be taken, and for me to recieve my food. The waitress looked at me, akowledging my presence and continued to wait her table. I was ok with this. She has a job to do, so i perused the menu while i waited my turn. I noticed after she hit all the tables and ran food out she went to the other counter and sat down. This was 10 minutes after i arrived. I figured maybe she needed a break, so i continued to review the menu. 15 minutes went by before i realized she was up waiting the tables again. I stopd there for yet another 10 minutes, i had been watching the clock, before she finally came over.
Worst attitude ever. She seemed almost appauld i would wait that long for take out, and acted as if i was some huge inconvenience to her time. Having been here before, i ordered what i always do. When i asked her to sub the fried rice for chow mein she told me she couldnt. Instead of arguing, i simply said that fried rice was fine. It was late, i was hungry, tired, and ready to be home after a long days work. She took my card and went to run it for the cost of my order. She then turned back to me and asked for my pin number. I toldbher i wasnt going to give out that private information, and asked why she hadnt just ran the card as credit. I even glanced at the card machine, it was an old strip reader, not chip, and there is no need for a pin on those. She said i could either give her my pin, or leave. I asked for my card back and left. It is absolutely bizarre that someone would so blatantly ask for such private information, and be so rude about it.
Never going back. I advise all to steer clear.

Two words: food poisoning.
I still feel shaky a day later it was that bad.
Which is unfortunate because I really do love Chinese food. It hurts my heart that I’ll be avoiding it out of PTSD for a while.

This place is my go to for chinese food. Cheap and taste great.
I was ordering take out from this place almost 1X every 2 weeks for a while. I love how everything is flavored the way its suppose to. Loved their Salt/​Pepper fish, Green Onion Chicken, Sweet Potato Leafs, Peking Ribs.
Also their Hot and Sour soup is one of the best in town and tastes just right.
We generally order to-​go, but have eat in a few time. When you eat in they offer you soup of the day which is generally a slow simmer Chinese broth (if your chinese), or hot and sour soup. At the end for dessert you get a Malay sponge cake.
Please note this place is a hole in the wall, but it has wonderful traditional chinese dishes. I would recommend going on the weekend or busy days of the week. As during certain times of the weekdays its a different chef in the back that cooks things a little different.

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

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

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

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^^

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.

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 68^th & E Burnside after 8 months :(

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.

This is 4 stars for what it is./ Quick, pretty good Chinese food on 82^nd. 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.

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!

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.

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!

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 décor 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.

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.

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 82^nd 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…