北京名厨Beijing Chef Dumpling House 39029 Cedar Boulevard, Newark, CA 94560

"Don't know why the reviews haven't been great. This place is hands down the best value for your dollar in the entire area. Does that mean you're getting the absolute tip top quality? No. But if you're going to this place for every little thing on their menu, you're making a big mistake. This place has a couple specialties, particularly their lamb bone hotpot, dumplings, liangpi, and chinese hamburgers. I'm going to focus on dumplings because our family buys a bag of these about once a month. Great texture, very good filling, and relatively priced for the quality. Generally feels handmade and is super handy for kid-dinners when they refuse to eat anything. Service can be a little chaotic, especially if they're short-staffed that day. But overall it's good food for a great price."

"Food is quite different from menu display. I suspect the beautiful menu pictures are copied from somewhere. Pork bun is tasteless like from supermarket package. Same for dumplings. The only good thing is plenty of parking during peak hours."

"TLDR: food and price deserve 5+ but ordering and kitchen logistics were really bad at the beginning. We visited this place in the first week it opened. We arrived a bit late so our food came fast, but server told us there was a major mess in the kitchen and I saw servers struggling with multiple orders from other customers, so there’s still a huge room for improvement on logistics. Aside from that, foods are pretty good (very authentic northern China taste) with very reasonable price. I’d try this place later again, hopefully they could figure out a better service plan."

"The menu has various local dishes from different cuisines, not only Peking dishes. Well, the menu is much prettier and fancier than the real food, and especially some of the pictures are totally different look from the reality. Taste is good for the price, and portion is quite good. The price is so cheap, especially comparing to local other restaurants. The waiter who took our order looked tired, and slow responded to us. When we finished eating, there was another waiter who was more friendly and with smiles. So I give a 4 star for the second waiter."

"An authentic Beijing food restaurant. We ordered tofu "flower", fish and pork dumplings, pork buns, pork liver soup and Chinese donuts. They are all great with big portions. Chinese donuts, 油条are the best in the bay area. We also bought some frozen fish dumplings since they are very tasty. We'll definitely go back."