Chef Ping

The food here is quite good. The menu is large and the noodle dishes are excellent. If you order a noodle dish it will take a little bit of extra time since they do make the noodles to order. My wife ordered a seafood noodle dish and it was quite large and she had enough to take home for lunch the next day. I ordered a spicy shrimp dish that wasn’t that spicy but the shrimp were plentiful fresh and perfectly cooked. The dish itself was very different from others I have had at other restaurants which I appreciate. The steamed buns were good but I thought a little light on the filling. The steamed shrimp dumplings were excellent. The Peapod tips are crazy good but very pricey (15.75). I think they’re worth it. The restaurant itself quite large and the atmosphere is nice. Service can be a bit weird and abroad however the food is worth it. There is a special Chinese menu available for those who can speak the language upon request. When we were last there one of the patrons explained that Chinese food is different all over the world and the dishes here represent Chinese food often prepared by Chinese immigrants in Korea. They have a section of the menu called old time favorites that I think represent this. Not sure I understand the distinction but the food is excellent. Mixed drinks well priced and very strong.

Chef Ping’s is awesome. Definitely one of my favorite if not favorite Chinese restaurants in the Chicagoland area. I say Chinese but you do see quite a bit of Korean influence in some of the dishes. It is a subtle but great fusion.
If you come here for dinner it will be extremely packed/​busy. You have been warned. If you haven’t been here before I would say it is worth the wait. If you have ever been and loved the old Yu’s Mandarin, this is the place for you. Rumor has it that the original owner’s children decided to open their own restaurant and hired some of the same staff. The menu and flavor are pretty much the same as I remember. Over the years Chef Ping’s has raised the prices of some of their dishes. Unfortunately one of them used to be my favorite. The beef tendon and sea cucumber is absolutely delicious. It used to be a steal but with the price changes it is now overpriced. Still tastes great but is no long my go to dish. The yellow chives with pork is great with rice. Kid’s will love the pongpong chicken. It is like the korean sweet and spicy chicken drumsticks/​wings.
Go try it out you’ll love it.

Great food created by, whom I can only imagine to be, very passionate chefs. The staff is kind and welcoming. I am not a picky eater and over time developed a diverse taste for a variety of foods. I can say with great certainty that just about every dish they make is worth trying so as to appreciate the amount of work and dedication that is invested in every bite that you might take. A+

Have never had a bad meal here. I’ve even waited for up to hour to be seated, but it was well worth the wait. The ping pong chicken is amazing; while most chinese restaurants don’t serve walnut shrimp this one does and it’s fantastic. Róngyù de chúshī (Yes I looked that up) LOL

50 of us came here after a conference. Made reservations and they were ready for us despite their otherwise very busy and full restaurant.
Decent food. Definitely order family style. Tangsooyook was pretty darn good. But their black bean noodles were just alright. Their jjampong was way too peppery and did not have a lot of seafood.

Chef Ping is a great restaurant with a great local chef. I have never actually eaten in the restaurant, but I’ve waited for take out there and it looks like a nice place. The take out service is convenient as they have a separate place at the bar for it, so you don’t have to wait or ask the hostess where to go.
My favorite dishes are their mu shu pork and kung pao chicken. The mu shu pork is served in one container, with plum sauce and pancakes on the side so nothing gets messy when you do take out. The kung pao chicken is really well done, just make sure you don’t eat any of the peppers in it because they are hot!

This is the best Korean-​Chinese style restaurant in Chicagoland. Better than Great Seas in my opinion.
I’ve been a longstanding customer of this place. I recommend jajang myun (noodles with black bean sauce) and pong pong chicken (fried chicken legs on bone with sweet and spicy sauce).
This is a casual place and they accommodate large parties.
They only accept reservations for parties of 6 or more.
Ask for the radish and onion with black bean sauce if you love flavor explosion in your mouth. It’s free and it’s complementary to the noodle dishes.

This is a review for take out. We ordered Gan Pong Squid (delicious! Sauce was perfectly cooked and blended! Squid was fresh and springy), Pong Pong chicken (somehow most people on Unilocal seemed to like this dish, but honestly to me it was an okay. Would not recommend), and Szechwan eggplant (though cooked in an unhealthy way… it tasted good). It’s a pretty Americanized Chinese restaurant in terms of taste; however, I still enjoyed its offerings. Will probably come back and try some of the other dishes some time!

This place reportedly is under new ownership and as a result the quality of food has gone way way down.
In fact, the food is among the worst I have had in the greater Chicago area. The Sesame Chicken was so over-​cooked it was powder dry in the middle — it also had way too much batter and way too little sauce. How can they blow a basic dish like Sesame Chicken? We had the Sweet Sour Fish and the fish was tasteless and the sauce was just plain weird. The portions in general are quite small also, and all the dishes were quite greasy (too much oil). We also had the signature crab dish with salted egg («Gold Dust») coating. Wow, the crab was over-​cooked and the meat was completed dry inside the shells. To add insult to injury, the crab shells were not pre-​cracked and they did not provide any cracker tool or special fork. We asked several times for a crab cracker tool and waited 10 minutes before one arrived. The crab was all cold by then. POOR SERVICE.
Talking about poor service… we ordered 8 dishes. The last two dishes were still 80% full and they came and gave us the check and asked us if we needed anything else. I was literally still picking food from the dish when the waiter came and took them away for boxing. Given someone at our table give the waiter permission to do so, but he only did it because he felt pressured. It was 6:30 and they were people waiting for tables. So, I understand they want to turn over the tables quickly. But come on, at least let people finish their food in peace. BAD FOOD & BAD SERVICE. I don’t know how this place got a 4 star rating.
Also, in terms of dining ambience, because the place is so crowded, they pack the tables close together. So the place feel very stuffy, you feel cramped and it so noisy it’s hard to hear your dinning companions.
Be warned!

Best Chinese food I’ve ever had…

Hands down the best Chinese restaurant in town. The service was great, restaurant was nice and clean, and my guests from Japan were extremely impressed and happy about the food.
Lollipop chicken is a must. So tasty!

Was very Good! The Perking Duck was excellent along with the lollipop chicken– was VERY good !
Would definitely comeback!!!

Chef Ping is a Chinese/​Korean-​Chinese fusion restaurant located out in Rolling Meadows. The menu is pretty extensive, offering soups, appetizers (such as pot stickers, shrimp dumplings, Chinese Buns, shrimp toast, etc.), curry, Kung-​Pao specialties, Sweet-​Sour dishes, Salt-​Pepper entrees, seafood/​beef/​chicken/​pork dishes, and vegetarian options. The owner is Chinese who grew up in Korea, and has adopted all these various Korean-​Chinese recipes to offer his diners. My family and I are huge fans of their Ping’s Chicken Wings, which are small chicken lollipops with this great thick savory sauce on it — fried to perfection, they have a great crispy exterior and a great ggangpoongi taste! I love how these chicken lollipops are smaller with more skin and small amount of meat — great to share as an appetizer or just eat it with rice! Yum! Great place to check out if you’re in the area — they also do carry-​out orders, too!
+Ping’s Chicken Wings: D

Unfortunately, I have only eaten at Chef Ping one time. While I can agree with just about everyone that the food is DELICIOUS, I can’t and won’t go back. I can’t go back because they put a ridiculous amount of MSG in their food. I won’t go back because they lied about it.
I know, I know, there is MSG in like, everything. But once it hits a certain threshold in my system, I get this crazy, major, crawl into bed and hope to die migraine. The one time I ate at Chef Ping, I asked them specifically not to use MSG. They said «Oh we don’t use MSG.» I said YAY! And then that night I felt like someone put my brain in a blender.
I don’t know if they’ve changed their ways since then, but I’m just not willing to take a chance.

I have been going to chef pings for a few years now and my whole family LOVES it. I have had my rehearsal dinner here, my brother had his as well. We have most family events here because they are accommodating and work with us to create a great menu.
We always get the mapo tofu, the pong pong chicken wings, sweet and sour pork, black bean noodles, and seafood noodle soup. All of these are our go tos and for good reason — they’re all delicious.
Their walnut shrimp, szechuan shrimp, 12 ingredient tofu in a pot, hot pepper beef, and summer salad are also great too.
I would highly recommend this place to anyone who is looking for a higher end Chinese sit down restaurant. They do get busy so reserve your spot if you have a party of 6 or more.
*(((Update: Chef pings has been sold to a new owner. It seems that the quality of food has gone down a bit. We will be going here again to ensure that it wasn’t just a one time thing and if the quality and taste is not as good we may have to find a new spot for our family to go))*

My aunt and uncle took me here. My uncle is Taiwanese so I let him do all of the ordering.
Everything was soooooo good. My favorite was the jellyfish vegetable dish. All the workers here can speak Korean and Chinese really well. The interior is also very modern and clean — a nice surprise to most Chinese restaurants I’ve been to.
I don’t remember everything that was ordered so just look at my pictures and get ready to drool!!!

Chef Ping is definitely the best Chinese in any suburb of Chicago! Nothing like what you’ll find at your average Chinese place… the food is full of flavor and tastes fresh and the atmosphere is warm and cozy.
My family always starts with the egg rolls. Highly recommend! Then we usually get the sesame chicken, walnut shrimp, and eggplant– all of which are extremely delicious and filling! We always make the mistake of ordering too much… the servings are huge! For example there were 4 of us and 2 entrees with fried rice was more than enough.
The only reason I’d knock it off a star is because the service is consistently bad. I understand that every restaurant has their off nights, but I’ve been here multiple times and the service is always extremely slow (water doesn’t get refilled until you ask) and the waiters give attitude if you don’t order a lot of food.
But aside from that, a great place for Chinese food! Definitely recommend to all.

I’ve been coming here for a couple years and while some things got better some are not as good. I still give it 4 stars.
Here’s some comments…
I love chicken wings. While some say the PongPong have no meat and are just fried bones these are my go to asian flavor wings. Sweet with some spice and nice crispy bits. I don’t get tired of eating these!
Shrimp dumplings, another Chef Ping staple for me. Pieces of shrimp in a nicely steamed wrapper.
Hunan beef & chicken. I always order this, why, I don’t know, the flavor is so good to me…
Pad Thai. This is one that went downhill. I love the noodle (Wide) which you don’t see as much anymore, but the sauce on this dish is flavorless. Just look at the photos people post here. Barely any color and it tastes like it. To bad as I love Pad Thai.

Went here as part of a treat. Friend had purchased a new car. so yay free food.
It was dinner time, fairly packed. Even though it was a Friday night, the wait time was short (10 minutes or so), perhaps we were lucky. Plan accordingly if you’re hungry and wish to avoid the crowd. The place is huge with two dining areas and a nice ambiance.
We ordered the Pong pong chicken, Sczechwan Eggplant and Gan Pong Diced chicken. They were all good. But I think every item that we ordered were breaded, deep fried and full of oil. That was my only qualm but otherwise it was good.
Portions are huge and we probably ordered way too much. Next time gotta avoid going all wild and ordering so much.
The chefs keeping walking around occasionally to monitor stuff as well. Bring up any issues if you have to them. It’s a nice way to personalize the experience and receive active feedback.

Service was great. The food was meh.
We ordered the following:
1. Homemade stir fried spicy noodles — it’s ok. Spicy, but lacked flavor.
2. Chinese broccoli — tasted fresh and probably the best thing we ordered.
3. Chicken lollipops — this was so disappointing. It was skin and bones. They took out all of the meat! If you like this dish… You must visit Great Seas restaurant in Albany Park of Chicago. It is called «spicy chicken.» Much better and more nutritional. I could get 10 chicken lollipops with rice and still be hungry.