dan modern chinese

I love this place!! Very similar to DTF, minus the wait. Every dish I had was very flavorful and comforting, and is reasonably priced. My personal favorites are the Beef Rolls, Short Rib Fried Rice, and the Pork Xiao Long Bao. The beef rolls are filled with tender oxtail, cilantro, and has a crispy outside! The fried rice also has melt in your mouth short ribs, bean sprouts, and green onion (can do without eggs). Service is really kind, and is accommodating for allergies. Reasonably priced and fast too! Nice ambiance.I'm curious to try their other dishes, including their fried dumplings! Phenomenal place, and I highly recommend checking Dan out!10/10

We've had dan before in the 626 and it was leagues better than our experience here. The popcorn chicken portion was small and was unevenly seasoned. Pork chop never came apart as separate pieces, every single one was still stuck together at one end and wasn't cut properly. The sting beans with garlic were fine but a little undercooked. The egg fried rice had a good flavor. For the prices of this restraunt, was expecting much better but was fairly disappointed.

beautiful atmosphere, very welcoming my servers name was very informative and kind so if you go ask for oscar food was 10/10

My mother would always take me here when I was younger and I felt like it was worse than some other Chinese food spots. I have changed my mind as I've aged due to the fact that Dan modern Chinese is noticeably healthier than any other Chinese food you will eat. It is quite amazing, also how they make so much food in such little time, at their Sawtelle location you can view them through a large glass making so much food so quickly. Truly amazing. The service is good no noticeable differences between other restaurants. The three cup chicken good here. The prices are also fine, great value.

The food was tasty but the servings felt a bit small. From the pictures I've attached I had a few bites from the bowl (it was full) and had 1 or 2 of the tofu bites. The servers were great at helping recommend options to us but this place just fell short in serving size. It was a lunch special as well which I understand is definitely smaller than dinner plates but compared to other spots it just didn't seem worth the price. I'm also someone who without fail always has leftovers because I really don't eat too much.. I would consider coming back for a full fledged dinner bc our service was great and the food was solid. Aside from that, there was plenty of seating and open space so it did not feel encumbering to eat out with family.

This is a neat little place I found on Yelp when I was craving some Chinese food. Portions could be a little bit more generous, but it was very flavorful. I'm looking forward to trying other dishes. I tried the veggie dumplings because they were out of chicken. I don't know what was in it, but it looked like minced kale? The soy sauce was ridiculously salty, it's like drinking from the dead sea. Very fast and friendly service. Beautifully decorated inside.

I ordered the chicken fried rice and 2 orders of xiao long bao. The fried rice was $15+ and the xiao long bao $7+. The portions were tiny, especially considering I paid nearly $40 for my entire meal (I only ordered these 2 items and water to drink). It took forever for a server to even wait on us and get a drink once we were seated. And then after we ordered I think the server may have come back once. We actually had dirty utensils so we had to get new ones. When we asked the server they said nothing, took the silverware and very forcefully put the new set onto the table without a word. The whole experience was quite unpleasant.

The interior was clean and modern. Our waiter was friendly and gave great recommendations. We ordered the chicken dan mein, pork xiao long bao, and mapo tofu with pork. Everything was incredibly flavorful; I'd definitely recommend the Dan mein noodles.

I was so happy to find a Taiwanese / Chinese restaurant at the Santa Monica 3rd street Promenade ! The food was flavorful and authentic.We ordered steamed dumplings, a veggie dish and fried noodles. Even though it was a busy night and the restaurant was short-staffed, our server apologized profusely and offered 3 different types of hot sauce for us to try!The interior was clean and modern and I will definitely come back to try their other dishes. If you are in Santa Monica and are craving delicious Taiwanese / Chinese food with good value, I highly recommend this place!

After going back for a second and third time, I am in love. As always the waiters were sweet, and it was nice and neat and clean in there. I got the Spicy Oxtail Noodle Soup, besides it not having any spice... it was SO GOOD. I do love noodles so maybe im biased but I went again the next day. This time I dined in like the first and we also got chicken chili oil dumplings, was absolutely DELICIOUS and some white rice on the side. It seems I've figured out whats good here... I will definitely be back.P.S.It did taste 10x better but the food could still be served hotter, wasn't as lukewarm as the chicken soup dumplings I got the first time... will never try those ones again