House of Pong Seafood & Grill

Food:
The hot cheetos mozerella sticks is amazing! Very tasty and unique. The salmon bowl was also amazing. The salmon was seared and lightly topped with their house dressing. The seared ahi tuna wasn’t anything special. It didn’t taste AMAZINGLY good, but it didn’t taste terrible, probably something you should order from a sushi restaurant instead. the spicy sauteed clam was quite good.
Price:
Honestly, for the quality and taste, it’s not too bad. Went with my parents (3 people total) we ordered the mozerella sticks, spicy clam, ahi tuna and salmon bowl and it came out to about $ 50. Didn’t think it was worth the $ 50 and left quite hungry and decided to get In-​N-​Out after. I don’t think I would be back because nothing really stood out and Rowland Heights/​Hacienda Heights which is about 15 minutes away has a lot more savory dishes to offer for half the price
Ambiance:
PARKING IS TERRIBLE! I think there’s only less than 8 spots for this restaurant. But when you walk in, the first thing you see is the bathroom. Quite strange, but then you walk past the kitchen, then you get to the seating area. The bar is small and cute, and there’s probably less than 15 tables inside? The tables and chairs are all wooden and the Dim lighting made it seem romantic but it felt casual because of the layout of the place and everyone wearing jeans and tshirts. Seems like a place to go for drinks and appetizers, but definitely not to fulfill your hunger.

Nice clean décor, owners are brother n sister. Super friendly and professional. I ordered Salmon carpaccio, garlic shrimp and ckn lettuce wraps all sooo good! Plenty of beers on draft and bottle. Great happy hour menu, and drinks. Lots of lunch specials too. Will definitely be trying this place for lunch.

Yum yum and yum! It’s a small restaurant (not tiny) that has limited parking so you may want to park in the Stator Brothers lot. The menu had a nice selection of dishes. I had the seared tuna rice bowl and it was delish! My husband got the peppered seared steak and that was also great. I definitely recommend this place. It’s a hidden gem!

This place is great! The food is fresh and light. The waitress offered fantastic suggestions for our seven year old, and picky old me. The salmon was perfectly cooked, pepper steak spicy, but not scalding and the lettuce cups were delicious! We’ll definitely come back!

Great Asian fusion place. Salmon bowl & seafood chow mien was tasty. The service was very friendly and fast, but not rushed. I think the best Asian food place around, nothing authentic but it does say fusion. Also, they incorporate a few vendors from surrounding area into their menu; Claremont Craft Jacaranda, Dr. Bobs ice cream & Von Fass oils. That is a big plus that they support the local community.

First time I’ve ever had Ramen, it was something that I was hoping was decent, but it was truly great.
The service though attentive, was not the greatest. Our waitress kept pushing the idea that their appetizers are similar to tapas, they were pretty good. She then truly destroyed any chance of me wanting to come back when she never removed our appetizer plates.
Good Food, not well trained customer service.

Five stars X2! My husband found this little place on Unilocal & man, Good Job Babe!
Our server Maggie was awesome! Told her it was our 1^st time, she walked us through the menu and made sure we were taken care of.
The food… ahhhh the food! We sampled a lot for our 1^st time and everything, I mean EVERYTHING was delicious! You can taste the quality & time chef Carmen put into it. (Which by the way, the chef came out to personally greet us.) No, we’re not famous, so it was a pleasure to see the chef come out & ask if everything was enjoyable.
I recommend the appetizers :
Lobster pops — the meat melts in your mouth
Baked Muscles — four muscles packed with flavor
The Volcano — a small dish filled with a mixture of seafood & the sauce!!!
Bacon wrapped scallops — hello need i say more?
I had the lobster soup which was so flavorful in a creamy white sauce. My husband had the stir-​fry with medium rare steak (sorry forgot the name) & i had the Lobster Roll — open faced on Hawaiian bread… omg, it was fresh & not heavy but filling.
Definitely coming back!!!
Of course we had to top it off with Tempura green tea ice cream. Not overly sweet but it hit that spot.

AUTHENTIC ASIAN CUISINE
Yessss! Thank you for giving us an Asian restaurant near us (Pomona) that not only stays open past 8pm (close at midnight) but serves yummy authentic Asian cuisine!
The owners are chefs who really know their craft as they have worked in all types of Asian restaurants and the flavor shows. Japanese, Chinese Hong Kong, Korean, Malaysian, Thai etc everything was DELICIOUS!
Shrimp Cocktail: 2 big shrimps and smaller shrimps with usual cocktail sauce flavor. It wasn’t served chilled cold is my only criticism.
Salmon carpaccio: 5 large pieces of salmon sashimi drenched in ponzu sauce and bunch of yummies… loved the crunch of roasted garlic chips in each bite! This was refreshing and our favorite.
Bacon wrapped scallops: tasted yummy there were two skewers with 2 fat scallops. The bacon needed to be cooked longer it wasn’t crispy. The dipping sauce was sweet and yummy.
Crab fried rice: big winner! Using real pieces of crab meat that you can taste made this dish my favorite. I loved the orange tiny masago eggs which gave the rice texture. The fried rice was perfect– in salty flavor and the dryness of the rice. It’s a lot too so feel free to share.
Fried banana sundae: bombdotcom! Ripe banana was tempura fried and the ice cream with cherry sauce was delicious.
We are definitely coming back here as regulars! Happy hour sounds like a great deal we will return to try the other dishes.
Thanks to the attentive staff who were friendly to us!

Don’t have to drive far for Asian noodle soup.
Loved the HK style Steak Ramen Souper Bowl.
The steak was melt in your mouth tender and the soup was very flavorful and not salty.
Will definitely come back to eat more ramen and try other tapas style dishes.

This place has amazing service, a great selection of drinks and the owner loves food and wants to provide patrons with the highest quality dishes. Claremont is lucky to have this place.

It’s just too bad that this place has a somewhat problematic curb appeal as it really is very good. The food is great and
excellent. My favorite dish is the salmon carpaccio. The spicy clams are excellent as well. I hope folks keep coming here and it stays open as it really is a great little restaurant in an otherwise lacklustre stretch of Foothill Blvs.

OMG, OMG, OMG, it’s that good. The appetizers are incredible, then add a full bar and you have a place where you want to come back again and again, I know my wife and I will.

Fantastic, friendly, attentive service! Great menu selection, so you’re sure to find something for you.
Can definitely recommend the crab fried rice, tempura, baked mussels, bacon-​wrapped scallops and lettuce wraps!
The fried ice cream is fantastic!

What a nice surprise! Restaurant with fun point of view… lobster pops… carpaccio…seared ahi tuna. Great staff. Fun and delicious food.

Great place! The food tasted great and the flavors were unique. Loved the spicy beef and skewer sampler.
Come and bring a friend for a nice time… Beer, wine and soju served up nice!

Had no idea what to expect, but tried it and it was amazing. A great tapas based restaurant that made everyone happy at every bite!
The staff was very nice, helpful, and friendly.
Great interior environment, don’t let the unassuming outside turn you away: once you’re in you might never leave!

Great food, friendly service and a fun atmosphere. I’d highly recommend this place to any of my friends. Try the crab rice, amazing.

Food is good but very small portions i had to spend 70 to just to fill up me and my wife not cool

Great place, friendly staff, that answered all my questions patiently and detailed. The food is delicious, different, made with passion, for food lovers!
Definitely is a place that I’m going back again and again.
Five stars!

My husband and I just fell in love with this place. Service was exceptional. Calvin is one of the owners and he treated us great. Very cool and fun to talk to. His sister, Karmen, is co-​owner and did all of the cooking for us. She was very sweet and came out to check on us to make sure we liked everything. They have a large selection of small plates/​tapas. They also have entrees, but we decided to do a tapas style meal. Everything was delicious. We are actually going back for Valentines Day this weekend.
Great selection of bottle and draft beers. Comfortable and nice looking décor. Great place! And again, the service was great. Others have mentioned slow service… We did not experience this at all. I hope this place turns into a success. Very cool to see a brother/​sister owned and operated restaurant. Oh, TEMPURA STRAWBERRY SUNDAE! Get it!

The atmosphere is very nice and intimate. Being a Sunday evening, we weren’t expecting the place to be busy and to that end we were seated quickly.
The service is excellent. We had the opportunity to meet the chef and she appreciated our positive reviews of the entrees and appetizers that we ordered. Our waters were promptly refilled. We also ordered beer and wine. The drink selection is very diverse: craft beers, macro brews, sake, and wine.
Now, onto the food. We ordered soft shell crab, bacon wrapped scallops, seafood salad, ahí tuna, and more. Altogether, the seafood is FRESH. Not once did we get a fishy smelling dish, which is indicative of old fish. The ahí tuna is much better than the one from the whisper house in Claremont. Sure, I didn’t get a tuna patty (we got slices of tuna) but the quality of the fish was beyond the whisper house.
The fried rice well… it was fried rice. Nothing special. The sauces that accompanied the seafood and entrees don’t taste canned. There was a bbq sauce that came with the chicken bowl that was really good. It opened up with smokey bbq notes and molasses and quickly became spicy and sweet. I have never had such a bbq sauce.
Come here for the quality seafood. You won’t go wrong. I’ll be coming back for some lobster!

I really wanted to love this place. I love local businesses. El Ranchero, for example (across the street) is like my second home. But… I just can’t recommend this place. I’m not sure why this place gets good reviews. The food is just ok… My wife and I tried many appetizers, but we just weren’t thrilled with any of them. From the steak, the ahi, the salmon, the chicken, the gyoza… Everything was just ok.
People commented on how cheap this place is. I just can’t agree there either. The chicken pops are $ 6 if I recall and include 4 wings. Go to Eureka burger or Red Devil Pizza and you’ll get much better wings at a lower cost per wing. The same is true of ALL of their fish. Sure… A salmon sashimi dish is $ 6. But you get just a few slices of salmon that are near paper thin. Go to Akasaka in Walnut or Little Tokyo in San Dimas and you’ll get better sashimi at a better price.
The other thing… they’re slow. I get that they’re new, but we waited 10 minutes to be seated when they had several tables open. Not sure why they had us wait that long. They had to clean a table I guess… 10 minutes worth of cleaning that left vegetables on the floor. Oh well… I was sure we would get food shortly after we were seated. Wrong. We ordered and then waited over 25 minutes for our first APPETIZER to come out. A full 40 minutes after we ordered, the last appetizer of the six came out. For this quality, that was just unacceptable.
On the plus side, the people are really nice. So nice that I feel bad giving this review. But… It’s deserved. Speed up the pace, increase the quantity of food (and I’m no fatty), and it would be a decent spot. But, they’ll need to increase the quality of each dish to really make a difference. This place just can’t compete with other places in the same space.
Another good thing about this place… A decent list of beers on draft and the sake is great. Even the house sake ($ 5) was really good. But, I wouldn’t come here just for the beer/​sake.

Really good food, very pleasant service, and pretty atmosphere. Will totally come here again.
We shared: seafood Napoleon, diamond in a cup, baked mussels, and the mixed seafood rice (can’t remember the name). Appetizers are served tapas style, so they are small plates meant to be shared. And they definitely will fill you up, so don’t be dissuaded by the portion size.
The server was really friendly and helpful. I really wish this place great success so I can keep coming.

After a long day me and my wife came here out of curiosity, I have allergies to onions and was told right away that a lot of things on the menu were off limits, which I didn’t mind because this isn’t a fast food restaurant, but the food I did eat was very very good and the beer selection is outstanding, I can see this place being a regular place to come eat and enjoy a drink, service was very good and I hope this place stays around for along time…

Simply put: This is the best seafood I have had since I moved to Claremont in 2013. I will definitely be a return customer.

Awesome food, outstanding service, and it is 2 min walk from our house!!! Pepper salmon bowl was very good and I was very happy with the quality of the fish. Mr. Pong served very nice egg rolls and fried ice cream desert for our daughter who announced her 5^th birthday tomorrow! Crab fried rice with lots of real crab meat and we liked it being the teppan style! I will love to use this restaurant from simple lunch to formal dinning to late night drinking!!! We will definitely come back!

My wife has to drag me anywhere new because I like things I know. And this place just opened. So it’s new.
So she bargained with me as we pulled up, beer and wine– we stay.
And yes! They do have beer and wine. And Happy Hour. And Claremont Craft Ales.
And– the food is great, like really, really good.
We ordered appetizers:
Peppered diced steak– spice level 7– damn!
Spicy sauté clam– the clams were prepared with onions and tasty
Crispy tofu (cause my wife insisted) was pretty damn good too– ask for chili sauce to dip with the miso
Parking will be drag. 4 spaces IF you find the tunnel entrance just west of the joint.
Go to Stater Brothers and buy gum, keep the receipt, and walk over here for happy hour or dinner.
Seriously, this place needs to stay.

Love this place love the appetizers nd the people Calvin is the best and the cookers
(Chef) yumm food delicious
Nd drinks nd beers cold
Ceviche nd fresh made tortilla chips yum

Costumer service 100% friendly and very welcoming server!
Cleaning 100% bathroom clean, tables aren’t sticky and plates and spoons etc. Spotless clean!
Food 100% loved it got the ceviche with chips are great the appetizers I got chicken lollipop and Cheetos mozzarella sticks and calamari. They were all good and their sauces made them perfect!
Drinks love the variety and we’ll balanced!
Highly recommended! A Must go!
Will be back soon!

3.5 stars, rounded up for good service
After reading the reviews on Unilocal,my boyfriend and I decided to check this place out. For a 5 star rating, I expected this place to be pretty busy but we were the only customers in the restaurant. We ordered the volcano and the garlic sautéed shrimp appetizers — SUPER SMALL portions and not enough to share. Like really? 3 pieces of shrimp for $ 7? Very disappointing and not worth your money. For our entrees, we ordered the lobster shower and the seared salmon bowl — both dishes were very tasty. The chowder could have been a bit thicker but still good. The salmon was beautifully seared and the vegetables were flavorful as well.
I would have rated this place lower but the owner was really nice and provided great service.

Pretty good food, and selection of alcohol. (Yay Lambics). Just be sure to order enough appetizers, or an entrée.

Great food, Great price. Many choice of beer on tap. Gotta try their sauces. Must try!

Had an amazing time at house of pong with my friends!
The enviroment is very homey and welcoming with adorable tables. The chairs are so comfortable that I almost melted as soon as I sat.
They have 12 draft beers, saki, soju, and cocktails and a wide variety of appetizers u can chose from! My friends andI ended up getting full from the appetizers, but the main dishes were even better. We had the steak sandwich, lobster chowder, the steak yakisoba and much more. My favorite was the lobster chowder!
If you have a chance deffinitely eat here! We will deffinitely be there to enjoy this amazing restaurant!
Also go talk to the owner, Calvin! He is very friendly and had a great conversation with him!

Great food, environment, and delicious dessert! Especially the steak sandwich I had was flavorful with the bbq sauce with some kicks in it.