Sunny Shine BBQ

If you're lazy to cook and craving some Chinese food, this is a pretty good place to go to. They have lunch specials that give really big portions for cheap but the normal menu pricing isn't too shabby either. The workers here are Cantonese speakers but they know enough English to help you order and understand what you want. I came and got some family style foods that comes with a bin of white rice which they will refill if you need more. Food not only comes with complimentary white rice but your choice of hot tea or my favorite, iced sweetened chrysanthemum tea! Pretty quiet with no music but doesn't mean you can't be loud and talk. Definitely should give it a try if you want authentic Chinese food and even if you're on a budget. See my pics if you want to know what I feasted on!

I would give this restaurant zero stars. Do not come here unless you want to get angry. I ordered a Fish Flavored Eggplant but they served me a Pork Eggplant instead. When I pointed out the mistake to the waiter, I expected them to bring me the correct dish.However, I was disappointed to find that the kitchen simply altered the taste of the same dish and served it back to me. The taste and presentation were still wrong. This not only failed to correct the error but also felt like an unethical attempt to deceive a customer. Never never back to this restaurant again.

I ordered a soup online and was going to pay at the store since there was no credit card checkout option. When I've arrived, I asked to pick up my order and gave them my name and phone number. The lady rudely said "Wrong location we don't have". I asked to double check since the location said it was this store and she just simply said "No we don't have". The tone could have been way much nicer and respectful, as I have never seen anyone treat their customers like this. If the website isn't working, please remove it as this was an inconvience for me. This was one of the rudest experience i've experienced

I would give them zero star if I could! Be careful if you pay with card! They will charge 22% tips without asking customer permission?We only ordered four dishes and each of them is average around 16 dollars only. I can not understand how come I ended up paying 90 something! When I asked how much they charge me for tips, the lady just looked at me without an answer. So I asked for the receipt with details breakdown, she is not willing to show me the receipt. I told her it is illegal to charge me tips without my permission, and I can call police! Then she showed me the receipts with attitude. I found the total before tax is only 69, plus 10% tax it should come out of 75. I found she charged me $15 for tips! When I questioned her, she trying to explain me she only charged 15%? Excuse me, 15% of 100 is 15, how you can get 15 tips with 75? It is totally unacceptable and NOT recommend this place for sure! It is illegal and unethical to cheat on customers bill!I used to come here a lot, it is my first time to come here since they changed the management. The previous owner offered better service and tasted much better!Today the roasted duck and pork belly is totally code! In the past they were always swerved as hot dish.The kong bao shrimp tasted weird, it is not normal Kong Bo flavor at all. And the peanuts is half cooked.The salty pepper pork chop and house special clam are ok.

Roast duck is very tasty delicious reasonably priced, the soy sauce stirred fried noodles are good too.I recommend it. However, the lady cashier is pushy, rude, and impatient. she needs to learn to treat customers with respect and have patience with customers That's the one thing I don't like is the cashier. Food's delicious...4 1/2 .but cashier service is Rude.

I stopped by on a weeknight around 7pm, there was a table with 4 men finishing up their meal. I had put in my order for wonton noodle soup, which should have taken 10 minutes like other places. While I was waiting, the cashier brought out about 4 dishes and put it on the table where the men left. I then realized they were cooking for themselves first to eat and made my order after their food. I leaned against what small ledge she had in front of the cash register asking if my soup was ready, she said rudely, don't squish my plant. I told her I wasn't and the flowers were fake! She then said my plant, I said your plant is higher up so how can I squish it. She shut up. Just plain rude cashier never taught any manners. That is why there is hardly any business. I had ordered food from Ocean Bo before I got there and it was already waiting for me. Took only 10 minutes for 4 items too.

First time trying Sunny Shine BBQ lunch special and it was pretty good! Their lunch special ends around 4pm so there's time after running errands on a Saturday to grab lunch. I've been to this place a few times to grab their chicken, BBQ pork, or roast duck. I remember their chickens were super plump and full of flavor. Meaning they were bigger than your Sam Woos; however time has changed. It's a good place to go if you're looking for BBQ roast pork or chicken.This restaurant is located in El Monte on Peck Road, right across from Ocean Bo (the place that sells dim sum) and Mana Tea House. The parking there can get really busy and the parking spots are really narrow. Especially during the lunch rush, the parking lot can get really packed.The service there is good, since I ordered to go I can't say about their wait service. Food comes out piping hot and smells so delicious. On this visit, I ordered Beef Chow Fun (dry style), Braised Tofu, Orange Peel Chicken and the Fish Filet in Black Bean Sauce. Also, as a bonus for their lunch special includes a box of complementary white rice. Most dishes on the menu are $9.99 or under.Overall it was a pleasant visit and the food was good. Especially if you're super hungry, it hits the spot just right. My only sad downside is that the boxes are not packed full like other restaurants. There was not a lot of fish filet in the Fish Filet Black Bean Sauce or a lot of chicken in the Orange Peel Chicken Dish. I guess times are tough and our dollars don't go as far anymore. The food is great, I just hoped for more food.The verdict, definitely coming back to try more dishes!

Good: BBQ Pork (Cha Siu), Roasted Pork belly (Siu Yok), Roasted Duck (Siu Ngap)Bad: If you don't understand some of the Chinese mannerisms, you're gonna learn toda I hated this place for a while but... they got above average food and it'll do in a pinch. It's the best BBQ Pork, in El Monte. But that's not the same as saying it's the best taco in El Monte. It's a local joint where you can get some of the Chinese delicacies. Some of these items are so hard to make at home that you just have to go out to buy them. We always get these 3 things Cha Siu, Siu Yok, and Siu Ngap. They're yummy. If you want to impress a Chinese lady, bring a box of each to the next potluck. Some of the mannerisms that I had to get used to:1. When you buy the BBQ pork it's in lbs. So if you ask for 1 lb, I'll get like 1.2-1.5 lbs. Master! (see fu!)! I axed you for 1 lbs, why you give me so much. I wasn't mentally prepared to eat or pay this much. Solution: if your goal is 1 lbs, ask for 1/2 lb. It's always a gamble, you gotta kinda eyeball it-- Good luck! be mentally prepared for leftovers or food coma. 2. See Fu is the name of the chef which directly translates to master. All of the chefs are See Fu-- dunno why I'm all tripped up over this. But... if he can keep cooking this well, I'll keep calling him See Fu.3. Language barrier- shoot, man... I just texted my wife "what do you call Roasted Pork Belly and Roasted Duck in canto" just to help me write this review. So... know what you want to order in Canto. Type of meat:BBQ Pork (Cha Siu), Roasted Pork belly (Siu Yok), Roasted Duck (Siu Ngap)know your numbers:1- 4google doesn't have a good translator, use bing: https://www.bing.com/translator?from=en&to=yue&setlang=enknow how to ask them to cut the meat for you so the See Fu doesn't have to grab his cleaver and show you the motion. Use bing translator for English to Cantonese

TL;DR - Owner changed, customer service is terrible, the restaurant and food isn't clean and my family most likely got food poisoning from here. I made an account just so I could put in my review and I would give this a zero star if I could. I hadn't came here in years since I moved but the place was on the way back home so I decided to stop by. I ordered to go over the phone beforehand and the lady on the phone was just plain rude the whole time and keeps saying they don't have certain things but whatever I just needed to pick up the food. When I arrived the first thing i noticed was how run down the place had become. Came to realize that the owner and all the previous staff had changed. Went in to get the food and again the front lady just had to make it so obvious about how much she hated her job and projecting it on the customer. Mind you I was the only one there because the place was just empty. I asked for my food and she said it wasn't ready. Lady.. I called almost an hour ago and your telling me my food isnt ready when i'm the only one here? I asked again after waiting a bit but she was constantly giving me looks and was rude to me as if I owed her something. Just from this itself was enough for me to never step foot back in here again. Ok so I ordered a few items so the whole family can have this for lunch and dinner but man was the food just terrible. The vegetables had so much sand and dirt in there so no one even bothered eating it because clearly they weren't even washed. The other dishes in general were either too salty or very bland, some even tasted weird like it just didn't taste how it's supposed taste. There was just no in between. My kids had one bite of the food and ended up spitting it out saying they didnt like the food. My parents ate more rice than the dishes ordered. My partner and I had some and ended up discarding the rest of the foods. As wasteful as it sounds, that was just how terrible the food tasted. By midnight everyone seemed to all have upset stomachs and everyone was fighting for the restrooms. I'm not positive if it was because of the food we got from here or not but the kids were fine because they didn't have any of the food but all the adults were just taking turns using the restroom. I even ended up taking my father to the hospital just to make sure he was ok because his health is not good. Turns out we got food poisoning but thankfully everyone was fine after a day or so. I should've done my due diligence and checked the reviews before coming back here since all these one star reviews started pouring in ever since the owner had changed. Guess its my turn to warn you guys about how terrible the food is at this place.

Lunch specials is great! Prices are reasonable and they have chinese BBQ too. Lunch specials are available everyday even weekends too.