Sun Hong Kong Restaurant

New restaurant opening. Kips Eats. Maybe some of the old kips will be back. By that i mean decent non Chinese food at a good price. Rumor is someone associated with Chez Panise is involved.

Food wasn’t so great, but had good happy hour prices.

Surprisingly good Chinese food. I came here with a group, and we ordered 6 dishes off the last page: fried calamari, tofu seafood claypot, Mongolian beef, some vegetable dish, a pork dish, and I forgot what the last one was. The quantity wasn’t great, but the quality was pretty good. I would come back here again to try their noodle soups.

I’m here for food sometimes! Conveniently located for me. Call in your order ahead if you don’t want to wait.
Wonton soup — $ 3 happy hour
Pretty solid chunks of wonton with shrimp/​pork, I like it with the flat super-​wide rice noodles, but you can get other kinds of noodle. Make sure to get some of that oily pepper sauce they have on the tables in there.
Mongolian beef — $ 4 happy hour
Two lumps of rice, and a saucy heap of beef, chilies, bamboo shoot, onion, etc. Lasts two meals for a gal my size.
Baked BBQ pork over rice — $ 4 or $ 5 (?) happy hour
This is probably the most interesting thing I’ve had here, and sometimes I’m really in the mood for it. It’s rice, BBQ pork, a red sauce that might be spaghetti sauce and oven-​broiler-​crusted, melted American cheese on top. If this sounds at all interesting to you, TRY IT. It’s cheap anyways.
Rock cod rice porridge/​congee (chao in Vietnamese) — $ 3 happy hour
A hefty take-​out tub of fish and mushy starchy goodness! When I’m sick or cold and don’t want to cook, this is what I get. It’s sort of an acquired taste, don’t get this here if you don’t know what it is already.
Cheap, friendly owner guy, and funny/​grumpy waitstaff man (always looks like you’re inconveniencing him, but I think it’s kind of funny). I’ll probably continue to frequent until I graduate. But only from 3pm-​6pm. I don’t even know the regular prices for these things…

So I ate here a couple days ago with my boyfriend. He ordered their lunch special of sweet and sour pork, and I ordered their orange chicken a bowl of hot and sour soup. The only decent dish was the sweet and sour pork.
When I got the orange chicken it was ridiculous cold, the chicken didn’t look like chicken and it was abnormally slimy and did not taste like orange chicken at all! The soup was alright…
The service was horrible! The server came to my table and asked how everything was, and as I was about to tell him about how cold and nasty the orange chicken was, he WALKED AWAY! Like what they hell? There was just 2 other people in the place eating, and he walked away as if everything was ok! Then when I got my bill, I told him straight out, the orange chicken was like frozen when it got and that it tasted awful, and all he had to say is «Oh». Payed the bill, didn’t leave a tip and I WILL NEVER COME BACK HERE AGAIN.
Seriously I hope someone pays attention to these reviews because their service was just not ok, very disrespectful.
Seriously, better food is at Peking Express just up the way, and much more friendlier people and better food.
Save your money!

As a poor college student at Cal, I go to Sun Hong Kong very often — to get cheap average Chinese take-​out.
I live at The Carlton, in a room with no individual kitchen and bathroom, therefore cooking at home is not an option.
Lunch, dinner and special of any kind at Sun Hong Kong are a good deal. However, call beforehand to place your order at least half an hour earlier. Because it literally takes the chef more than half an hour to cook everytime I show up in person to get a simple lunch special to-​go, when the restaurant is not even busy at all.
The food is just about average, nothing too special. On the other hand, the service is unbelievably unacceptable. The bald-​headed server, who is unfortunately there everyday, has issues. He pays no respect to Asian customers who don’t speak Cantonese, because unfortunately again that is the only language he can speak affluently. Don’t believe this? Just ask any Asian classmates of yours who have been there, you’d be amazed with the result.
Due to the scorching hotness outside today, I decided to dine in instead of eating at home. I ordered tofu with beef over rice from the lunch special menu and five mins later ordered another Mongolian beef chow fun for take-​out.
It took the chef half an hour to deliver my first dish, as usual. What came up first was not my rice plate, but the chow fun instead. The chow fun was set on a stylish frying pan above the plate, which indicated to me that the server did not even listen when I said I wanted it for to-​go. What a surprise. Informed the server, who responded with an I-don’t-give-a-F face. 20 mins later, my rice plate finally arrived, while I was already half way done with the chow fun because I was too hungry. The guy threw a to-​go box on my table along with my rice plate. He then walked over to my adjacent table and helped a White customer wrap up his leftover in the to-​go box. Having been here too many times and spent at least hundreds of dollars on food, I felt numb because I was already too used to it.
One star for their continual effort in providing a mixture of carbohydrates, animal proteins, oil and grease in a box for less than five dollars that you call Chinese take-​out.
Here is my advice — call early to order your food, have minimum interaction with the staff to avoid ruining your day, and there you have successfully gotten yourself an inexpensive Chinese take-​out that’s closest to campus.
Shall you decide to dine there, be prepared to enjoy the humiliation and the rest of your day.
PS: If you dine in, they automatically add 15% of gratuity on your check and swipe that amount for you. Having been a waiter for two years, I’d most likely get fired if I do that.

Haven’t been here for years but this use to be our late night spot. So this is my irrelevant review for SHK circa 1992.
I would always get the beef w/​black bean sauce over rice. This was my go to rice plate. Prawns w/​lobster sauce and minced beef w/​egg over rice were also among the favorites in our group. Our server was always this middle aged man who’s voice was like the Chinese version of Lurch (Adam’s Family). He always cracked us up.
We had a lot of good times here and I hope to return one day with the fellas to reminisce.

We got the kung pao chicken and some szechuan beef dish. It was on point.
They didn’t have scallion pancakes though even though it’s Chinese (real) food. Okay maybe it’s not Hong Kong food, but it’s a traditional food. But not really.
Come here.
Food is good. Prices are cheap.

The wonton noodles is only $ 3 from 3−6pm!
So good for what you pay for :)

Happy Hour is the business!
Porridge/​jook is awesome on a cold/​rainy day.
BBQ pork fried rice is decent as well.
Service was ehh though. Every time I asked for an extra dish or spoon, the guy just looked at me and gave it to me without a word. Maybe it was an off day, or maybe that’s just how he rolls. Made me feel bad for asking for things though.
Nonetheless, I’m looking forward to going back and trying more happy hour dishes!

I used to go here everyday during summer session for the lunch special. The food is cheap and easy on the tastebuds. Just don’t check your cholesterol after eating here for a summer…
They have cheap icy drinks also, which were a great addition to your lunch.

To be honest, I was surprised by this place. I expected tasteless subpar not enough soy sauce or msg Chinese food, yaknowwhaddaimean? However, to my delight, I found a pretty decent selection of CHEAP and fairly yummy food! I think I’m more smitten with the cheapness of happy hour though. See photos below for the most recent and relevant menus.
While I’ve only tried one happy hour dish so far (Beef w/​black bean sauce over rice), I give this place 4 stars for its closeness to campus, CHEAP (can I emphasize this more?) prices and decent hours. Did I mention free wifi that I’ll probably be stealing from now on? I will be back to try the rest of the selection and their boba milk tea of course.
— Minus 1 star because they were still cooking their boba when I came in around noon and wouldn’t be ready for another half hour. Also because I’m a picky SoCal Asian girl who indulges in 626 Asian food so I know what’s up and what’s not.

I’m a huge fan of their milk tea, it truly has that Hong Kong style milk tea taste. It’s super cheap too, $ 1.25. This may be the new place that I go to instead of Quickly for that milk tea fix.
I got a beef chow mein (the crunchy kind, you get a choice between that or thick noodles). It tasted great! The portion is really big I could barely even finish it. Keep in mind that I did not go during happy hour, I went on a Saturday night at around 9pm. The total came out to be $ 7.75 which is pretty good for a large meal and a milk tea. I’d say this is also pretty on par with Vietnamese Village in asian ghetto (of which I am also a fan of too).

I dont think it’s reasonable for people to give Sun HK such bad reviews when they go eat at their happy hour. You just cannot expect regular priced menu items quality food for $ 3 or even less!
Anyways, I went to Sun HK for their porridge (take-​out). I got a thousand year egg pork porridge and a chicken porridge. I did not go for the happy hour items, so the portions were huge (each porridge could serve around 4 bowls). They were definitely not stingy with the meat either! My chicken porridge was full of tender de-​boned chicken. It was delicious! Reminds me of the jook/​congee my mom used to cook me back in Hong Kong!

Sun Hong Kong has signs in front offering ice cream @1 a scoop, iced coffed @1,25, and hong kong milk tea @1.25
drink: hong kong milk tea
–first few sips okay. later sips just powdery tasting.
–no one actually on duty, waiter was pulled to maked drink.
tea drips:
–doubt coffee would be any better.
–ice cream too iffy to even try.

I’m here probably three times a week during the school year. I’ll admit, the food isn’t the greatest Chinese food you’ll ever have, but it’s still pretty decent and a great value considering the prices, especially during happy hour! Between 3 and 6pm a lot of items on the menu are discounted. You can usually have a full meal for under five dollars during that time, and maybe between $ 8 – 10 outside of happy hour.
It’s a great place for groups, there are TVs on the walls which you can watch various sports, and the service is (usually) good. To be fair though, it might just be because I come here so often that they started recognizing me, so I can’t vouch for anyone else’s experiences with their service. They usually don’t mind if you hang out in there for hours either.

If you want lots of food for cheap, this is the place to go. Happy hour is from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. so be sure to go between these times to order off their dirt cheap menu. Drinks are like a dollar, and an entrée is ~$ 3.50. One thing to note is that they don’t accept credit card unless your order is $ 7.
I usually get the curry beef or curry chicken over rice. The curry that they make is packaged, the beef and chicken taste pretty much the same, since they’ve suffered from so much freezer burn that the texture is mushy and indistinguishable.
I wouldn’t recommend this place unless you wanted to dine with somebody you dislike, or a huge group of guys who could care less about what they want to eat.
The milk tea with tapioca here is also not that great. They put MASSIVE amounts of corn syrup into the drinks, and I think after two or so, you’ll have diabetes before the day’s over.

Dirt cheap chinese restaurant that offers American dishes as well. There are a good number of rice dishes that fall under $ 5 before tax and tip. Don’t expect premium cuts of meat in your dishes. Drinks are very cheap and laden with sugar.
Basically, you get what you pay for. This food fills you up without emptying your wallet. If you’re gonna complain about the quality, go elsewhere.
*Ideal for college students on a budget

This place makes me particularly sad. The service is brusque and unapologetic, there is no restaurant ethic beside profit, the food is inedible, oily and otherwise flavorless, and– biggest pet peeve– SHK is unwilling to part with extra napkins (which you will need, if only to soak up grease.)
Case in Point: More than once, I thought it’d be a good idea to cash in on their unbelievable ‘$ 2.75 Lunch Specials!’ that enticingly promised tasty words like rock cod, porridge, beef stew, curry, & baked casserole dishes.
I can’t fault SHK for lying, per se, only for finding creative ways to render perfectly tasty things completely yucky. The barbequed pork chow mein was slicked and drowned in oil, and, to be honest, that was okay– there are some sidewalk-​sitters on Telegraph who, despite many dubious words of warning, love slippery, greasy chow mein.
And sometimes, I really can’t help but stop for a $ 1 red bean snow, which (though consisting more of blockish ice than freezer-​burned red bean & tapioca) is still refreshing and sweet.
But there was one day where I was simultaneously starving, rushed, and feeling thrifty. So of course, Sun Hong Kong popped into mind. I ordered a stir-​fried beef noodle covered in XO sauce, figuring it couldn’t be too hard to slop a bunch of sauce onto boiled noodles and call it a day.
Wrong. The order arrived, borne in a generic Chinese waxy-​cardboard takeout carton, three sizes too small for the soggy, saucy noodles that spilled out from the sides and covered my fingers in grease. (SHK too cheap for plastic containers?) The noodles were waterlogged and falling apart; there were canned pineapple bits (not a good thing) interspersed among jello-​y slabs of «tenderized beef» and only a dollop of XO sauce to give the entire order a slightly brownish tint. And the most humiliating thing: I had apparently missed Happy Hour by a few minutes, making my already extraordinarily shitty food $ 6.95. (Read, actually expensive, given the list of ingredients.)
Sun Hong Kong, you make me mad. I’m all for the idea of making a buck, but I wouldn’t put it past you guys to hang out in the kitchen at the end of the day, counting your cash and laughing at your exploits (of manipulating poor college chumps) while you plot out the next worst Chinese surprise to pop into your mind at $ 3.95 a plate.

Although their Happy Hour prices are a steal, I never find myself eating here. I’m not sure why…
Their $ 1 watermelon or milk tea drinks are great and cheap on a hot day. My mother especially enjoys their Fish Balls or Pig Skin Curry and I have to agree. I usually order their Happy Hour chicken curry, which is delicious, spicy, and filling for about $ 4 – 5.
I usually do takeout but I’ve found that they usually mess up my order when I try to order it over the phone. Sometimes I ask for the a la carte curry portion but they’ll mistakenly mix it in with my rice and I’d have to wait around while they re-​do it.
Overall, an affordable and delicious Chinese restaurant in the Berkeley area. A much better one than Lotus House, in my opinion.