Asian Cafe Express

Food - I have a salty palate so love the flavors at this authentic restaurant. Plenty of flavors. Able to customized spice levels on some dishes. Bring your own seafood and they will cook for you with choices of sauces and cooking styles (see menu). For 4 lobsters that weighed 5 pounds we paid about $30 for cooking with 2 different sauces (ginger scallion & black beans). The lobsters we got at nearby H-mart for $9.99/lb. Service - appreciate the tentative service. Server provided us with water and took out promptly. Aluminum bowls for lobster shells. Food came out relatively quick.Ambience - don't expect romantic ambience here. typical Chinese restaurant.5 stars for food and service.

What a great hidden gem that is so close to home. I am looking forward to coming here more often. I stopped in at Asian Cafe Express with a group of Yelp friends to celebrate Lunar New Year. The menu here is enormous. There are so many dishes to choose from. I was happy that they have pictures on the wall of their dishes because I was so indecisive about what to order. What I enjoy about this place is the bargain prices and the big portions. Not to mention the food is pretty good!Asian Cafe Express serves up Chinese comfort food along with favorites from Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. They have been a staple here in the Valley for some time and are located by H Mart in Mesa. I ordered the Beef Stew Chow Mein and a noodle soup for my entree. But we ended up doing a lot of sharing so we could each try something different. Overall, Asian Cafe Express ended up being a great recommendation and a nice time with friends. Great service too!

Asian Cafe ExpressThey are back from vacation 1911 W Main St #3, Mesa, AZ 85201I'm thrilled that my beloved Chinese restaurant is back from their well-deserved break! It's great to see them open again.I opted for a meal that's good for managing Type 2 diabetes. The squid is beneficial for my blood, while the bitter melon helps lower my blood sugar. True to its name, the bitter melon is quite bitter but incredibly beneficial for health.I must say, both the dishes and the service provided by the two sisters were outstanding. I'm just delighted that they're back from their vacation!

Wow, another fantastic experience!! This has become my favorite Chinese restaurant! Their salt and pepper shrimp is perfectly savory & crispy! But what's incredible is, they will make it gluten free at your request! That goes for the fried rice too! The hardest part is picking the fried rice dish you want, as they have waaaay too many tasty fried rice dishes to choose from! For this visit, we opted for the seafood fried rice, and we were giddy like two little chickadees in a basket of mealworms! Service was fantastic! Our original server wasn't familiar with gluten free, but another server came by to help out, and we were able to explain our exact gluten free needs, and our dishes were exquisite! We are hooked for life!!

My all time favorite. Foods were always on point. Very nice people work there. Service was always great. Highly recommend this place

Following my last visit, my one star review, I visited again Feb 8th. Spurred by an open invite for Yelpers to the monthly supper club I'm happy to report that I put Asian Cafe back in my collection of places to dine in Mesa.Their creamy chicken corn soup was perfect I thought! The egg, chicken and flavor was balanced just right for me! $At 4.99 for a medium which serves 2-4 people is delicious and a great value.Steamed chicken is what I ordered for my entree. The chicken was not up to par and was dry. It looked like it was cooked the day prior but the ginger scallion paste (sauce) that accompanies it saved this dish! I order steamed chicken/condiment at other restaurants and have it with other meats or just on my rice! I love it so much, that I plan on making this simple sidekick at home. Ginger, scallion, oil and salt. That's it!The servers had a grip on the phone orders, take out pick ups and had to serve all the tables of patrons with kindness. Kudos to all the hard working ladies that night!Chow fun and one of their speciality combos are on my radar to try next!

For February the International Supper Club UYE picked Asian Café Express as the place for us to try! We had a big turnout for this one and the place was able to accommodate us with no issues.Asian Café Express has three styles of menu, AZ style menu, Hong Kong style and the set dinner specials menu. The Hong Kong style menu is what I went with, which is authentic Chinese dishes. After checking out the menu, I went with the Hong Kong style menu and ordered the Kung Poa Beef. It was stirred fried beef with carrots, onions, green peppers in a Szechwan sauce and topped with peanuts. It was served with rice. This dish was so good! It made great leftovers too!Service was great and even for being a big group, the dishes everyone ordered came out quickly. I am glad to have tried Asian Café Express and am in the area often so I know I will be back!

I got a chance to visit this restaurant as part of an UYE right before Chinese New Year 2024!!This place is located in the H-Mart shopping center, it has been around long before H-Mart moved in. We ordered from the Hong Kong part of the menu and we were impressed with every dish that came out. The menu is extensive, and so many good options. I went with a Green Onion, Shrimp & Tofu soup, the medium serves 2-4 people (cup size portions), the fresh green onion on top definitely elevates the flavors. This was delicious, hot, flavorful, plenty of shrimp.For my entree I went with the eggplant & ground pork in garlic sauce, served over rice, the spice level was perfect. Good flavors, big portions. Everything our table ordered looked and smelled delicious. We had great service, restaurant is spacious and has several large round tables for big groups. Parking is shared with a number of businesses and may be tight on a busy Friday night or weekend. I will definitely be back and would recommend this place.

This spot has quickly become my go-to for delicious, no-frills Chinese food. It may not be fancy, but the food is fantastic, and the prices are even better! One of the coolest things about this place is that you can buy live lobsters from the H Mart next door and bring them over to ACE, where they'll cook them for just $6.50/lb. We like to get a few lobsters and have them prepared two ways: ginger and green onion sauce, and black bean sauce--both are incredible! Don't miss out on the salt and pepper calamari--crispy on the outside and perfectly tender inside. If you have enough room, try the braised beef stew over crispy chow mein noodles.The set meal is also a steal. You can choose a soup or veggie dish (the minced beef and egg white soup is my favorite) and three more entrees for $45.99. It's perfect for family-style dining, so you can sample a variety of dishes. The lack of ambience is forgiven because it's all about the food and the prices here.

I came here for lunch the first time with my friend after shopping at H Mart. The restaurant reminded me of my good old days living in NYC and going to Chinatown for meals. The menu is very extensive. The service was very good, attentive and friendly.We ordered the Hot and Sour Soup, Pork Egg Rolls and Beef Chow Fun Dry along with a Hot Oolong Tea. The Hot and Sour soup was good, though could of used more hot (spice) and more sour to it. The Pork Egg Rolls were OK. The Chow Fun was excellent, filled with beef and had the smoky wok fry taste to it that you can only get with a hot hot fire under your wok. I will definitely be back but next time to try more of the dishes I grew up with.Atmosphere: typical Chinese mom and hole in the wall. Service: excellent. Food: good.