Far East Cafe

Weekend dinner is always packed with people. The food is great, the service is great and they have plastic plates for the kids.

So it is Chinese New Year's today. I forgot to make my own version of Jai (Buddhist delight-strictly vegetarian) last night and tradition dictates you should not consume any animal product (creatures with a face) for today. So Jai it is. There are many restaurants that can make this dish. Some are decent, some are bad. The challenge: this entree has up to 18 unique ingredients, one should not cook everything at the same time. each ingredient needs to prepared individually before it is mixed together. And most restaurants don't include all 18 ingredients. So how was this dish at Far East? It was very good. Each ingredient seemed to be cooked separately before it was mixed together- there were no under or over cooked items. Perfect. The New Years Jai at Far East contained: fried tofu, carrots, whole shiitake mushrooms (a plus), vermicelli rice noodles, snow peas, wood ear fungus , black fungus (another plus!) And napa cabbage. So why not 5 stars? it only contained 8 ingredients (again- unless you make it yourself most restaurants would also reduce the number of ingredients), there was a subtle aftertaste probably of the use of msg, and the price point was $20.53 (includes tax)-a bit high for a strictly vegan dish. But the dish looked good and the taste was better than most other restaurants.

Far East Cafe has been around for YEARS. I have never had a bad meal here...always tasty and piping HOT. I came for dinner after a quick 9 holes at William Land Park. It was early for dinner so they were not busy at all. I was told to sit anywhere . Menu and glass of water was immediately provided. I ordered the West Lake beef soup and curry beef stew over rice. Like I mentioned earlier...tasty and nice n HOT. It was a lot of food for 1 person...next night's dinnerWhile enjoying my meal, noticed they do lots of to go ordersAll in All a GREAT experience. Will be back

Stopped here for lunch. Had the green bean & beef lunch special! So much food for a great price. The green beans were crisp and beef was tender. I appreciated the freshness of food!Thank you, will be back!

I used to come here all the time, some 30 years ago, when Uncle Sammy used to own this place. Every time anyone walked in, Uncle Sammy would greet them loudly and usually by name.The food was very authentic, cheap, and homey.I have not been back here for about 20 years... things have changed. I think the food is still about the same but my pallet has changed due to all the competition around. Service was good, very attentive. Prices are reasonable.The dried fried shrimp was my favorite, as well as the grass jelly dessert. They really need to do something about their booths. I went with a friend and cousin and none of us are that big, but, even we were not that comfortable. As we were sitting there, we saw other people struggle to get in and out of the booth or requested to be seated elsewhere. There is not enough space between the seat and the table. They need to remove one booth in order to spread the other booths out more.

I've eaten here numerous times but finally got around to writing a review. I stopped by at lunchtime and ordered the lunch specials: chicken with green beans and Mongolian beef. Each lunch special comes with chow mein, steamed rice, and a small bowl of egg drop soup.The restaurant was getting busy, but the servers were quick and provided excellent customer service. There's plenty of seating, so even during the lunch rush, it didn't feel overcrowded.As for the food, my chicken with green beans lacked flavor, and the chow mein was a bit too salty for my taste this time. However, on other occasions, the food has been better, so I'm chalking this up to an off day. I also ordered the duck over rice and BBQ pork over rice to-go, and both were delicious, highly recommend them those for lunch special!One issue I have to mention, though, is that a customer seated behind me had an extremely strong body odor, which made it difficult to enjoy my meal. I'm usually pretty empathetic and not easily bothered, but it was overwhelming. While this isn't the restaurant's fault, it did affect my overall experience.Overall, Far East Cafe is a solid spot, especially for takeout. I'll give it another try.

Best Chinese food I've had in Sac!Nothing is overly greasy, had the 218 family dinner with ample portions and - wide variety of tasty dishes. Good mix of meat and veggie dishes. The soy sauce chicken was my favorite-better than Tealicious across the street.Several other families were there too having larger Sunday family lunch.

Great family owned independent restaurant! We have lived in the neighborhood a while and conveniently just moved down the street! My mom brought some over for lunch and since then I've got my dad to go and my in-laws! Huge portions! Everybody loves it, perfect for sharing. Lots of vegetables which is one of my favorite things about the place. So far I've tried the vegetable chow mein, vegetable fried rice, eggplant with garlic sauce, and soft tofu with vegetables. I recommend everything! I really like the tofu with vegetables, don't forget your protein! I'm lucky I live so close. If you're in the area, or if you're not, try it out! Friendly staff. Food is usually ready in about 15 minutes. Easy peasy! (Pictures I attached I already took out two portions of each containers)

One of my favorite restaurants in the town. I have heard they hired a new chef. Stop by to check it out. The food we had ordered was so tasty and yummy. And the service was very good and the server was extremely friendly. I really enjoyed my meal, I highly recommend this restaurant! .

We reserved a private room for our banquet on Valentine's day. They were very accommodating and let us in early to decorate and set up the room. This room can accommodate up to 7-8 tables I believe. Service was quick, food was great, nice ambience. We especially love the house special chicken with soy sauce among many other great dishes. We stayed a little over their closing hour but they didn't rush us at all. Very nice experience !