Flower Lounge

My girlfriend and I came in on a cold night and the owner was so friendly to us. We ordered the salt fish and chicken fried rice, salt and pepper pork, and the kung pao chicken. Everything was absolutely delicious. Not only that, the owner brought us complementary soup to help warm us.Anyways, both the service and food was great. The owner is also very welcoming and friendly. 10/10 would recommend!

Came in after the last Oakland As game. We were as emotional as we were famished!!Heard good things so we had high expectations. First impression was great. Good and happy greeting from hostess and the owner. She is very personableThe combo fried rice and chow making very ver good. Mushu shrimp was really good!! Gotta try it! The salt and pepper pot chop came recommended by the owner and the flavor was the bomb. The meat was a bit chewy but good overall all. Lastly we had the Mongolian beef. All was above average and the service was enough to put it all over the top!Very nice and clean restaurant on MacArthur Blvd. definitely worth coming back again!!Also they have nice bathrooms!

I have been coming to this place for many years the workers are so nice and remember me and my entire family! The food is fantastic I especially love the shrimp fried rice! Idk what they do to the egg in it but it is soooo good and the shrimp is so fresh!

First time customer was greeted right away, ordered takeout chicken chowmein and yang chow fried rice. Large portions both were kinda bland had to add my own flavor.

Everything is solid here! The owners are super cool and service is fast. My favs are the egg foo young and pork fried rice.

I had been wanting to visit Flower Lounge for a while. I was incurably curious to try it after stumbling upon its yelp page and noting it was a 4.2 star establishment with a name akin to the legendary Hong Kong Flower Lounge (closed as of 12/2022) in Millbrae. The latter Lounge in it's 80s and 90s heyday was the epitome of Chinese fine dining in the Bay Area. Unfortunately, it had been on a long decline since it's peak in the glory days of yuppiedom and unsurprisingly shuttered.Could Flower Lounge mirror some of the panache of its Peninsula near-namesake? I had wanted to find out for a couple years but was thwarted by its pandemic closure of the dining room. (I knew a take home experience wouldn't do it justice.) I was happy to find out that they've re-opened recently for dine in.As I entered and looked around, a hint that it wasn't just catering to suburbanized "American" clientele were the written in Chinese-only specials pasted as flyers on the wall. I have no idea what they said or if they were any good since I'm an ABC (American Born Chinese) and wasn't able to read and order. So my Americanized eyeballs stuck to the standard English menu. I ended up choosing the Peking Style Spare Ribs, Salted Fish with Chicken and Bean Curd clay pot and, indulging in my irresistible ABC inclinations, the Tomato Beef Chow Mein.The Salted Fish with Chicken clay pot arrived first. It was still hot and percolating and remained bubbling for a full two minutes! After waiting for it to cool a bit, I took a taste. It was incredulously good. I hadn't expected this at all. The salted fish flavor permeated its whole contents--the chicken, tofu and sauce. It's un-ABC of me to love salted fish and its profound pungence, but I am unapologetically still Chinese. The pot was so hot and heat retentive, the dish stayed that way until the end of the meal on a cold winter's night.The Peking Spare Ribs were also a revelation. Lightly fried and surprisingly soft, the biggest surprise was that it was slightly more sour than sweet. Most places, the ribs are basked in an over-powering, sweet red glaze sauce. Not here. Its subtlety made the dish perpetually inviting. Unlike other Peking Rib experiences, I kept on eating, never succumbing to taste fatigue.Alas, the letdown was the Tomato Beef Chow Mein. Thanks to years of said indulgence, I am probably a connoisseur, albeit reluctantly. First, it was clearly lukewarm. Definitely, a poor first impression on the taste buds. But the main transgression were the thick Udon noodles. Huh?? Why huge Japanese soup noodles in a Chinese-Am wok dish?? The massive strands simply overwhelmed everything with their mouth-monopolizing gobs of dough. The delicately sweet tomato sauce and the tender texture of the beef were left in the dust. Where was the ole classic spaghetti-sized pasta or the trendy, pan-fried noodles? Just a strange culinary choice.But otherwise Flower Lounge would be worthy of a Michelin mention in my book. Definitely Bib Gourmand level (or even a one star albeit without one star service. More below). It was as if one of the Millbrae HK Flower Lounge chefs from its heydays quit to open his or her own. (This was exactly the rumored dynamic of Silver House in San Mateo.)Now about that service. The food was plunked down, and we were left alone. Not asked if we needed anything after that. It hearkened back to the typical mom and pop Chinese kitchens of yesterday: "The food is good, so get in and get out. You want to be friends and be nice? Go to your Family MahJong place. Here is to eat!"And so I did. Shortfalls aside, the place overall was still quite pleasing to both the Chinese and American sides of my palate.

Nice spot. Chow Mein was good. MuShu Chicken had way too much cabbage and little chicken. Lovely nice people working at restaurant. I would use for take out and a basic chinese staple.

Definitely looks like a hole-in-the-wall place - which meant the food HAD to be good and it didn't disappoint!The food was great! Mushu pork, sizzling beef, fried rice, hot and sour soup! Everything was delicious! Service was amazing! You could tell the "waitress" was likely an owner or had worked there long enough to know almost everyone who came in. She was funny and helpful and checked on us regularly and told us to come back next week! LOL Too bad it's a 4 hour drive for me! ...but we will definitely be back!

Had the fried ribs and sweet and sour pork also beef stew and rice w sauce. All were delicious. Nice ambiance and customer service excellent. Nice road trip today

Haven't been here in about 2 years . Came today . 4 dinner orders for 140 that is crazy. Let's not talk about the price . The flavor is way off. Chow mein soggy. They put 4-5 chicken wings. Before was 8-10. The won ton soup is all water. No broth flavor. Not worth it . They lost all their flavors