China Chili Restaurant

Just found out it closed– a little too late. Was looking forward to the fabulous food. I ate here for many occasions in the past! Great place
Happy retirement:)

China Chili don’t leave :(

I am crushed!!! I heard China Chili is closing. I could cry. We recently moved to Ohio and return frequently to Fremont and each time seek out China Chile. I heart broken. Thank you China Chili for years of great service and food… life won’t be the same without you. Anyone know why they are closing? They seemed busy all the time.

I love coming here! The food is always great and the staff is always friendly. I love their hot and sour soup as well as their spring rolls.

I didn’t really find anything that stood out here. The restaurant itself is very secluded and wasn’t filled with people at all this service to our table was good. The fried shrimp was very salty. The fried rice was not that great. The eggplant dish was the best and I would get it again if I come back.

Early dinner with great food and service tonight. Much much better food than when we went here a couple of months before. It seems like they are back to the quality that I have grown to expect over the years.
The hot and sour soup was the perfect temperature and seasoning. The lemon chicken had a nice crispy batter and yummy sauce. In my opinion the kung pao chicken could have had a bit more heat and I deducted a star for that. We also had the garlic green beans.
Service was excellent and courteous from every single person working there.

I used to love the food from this restaurant. Came today and the food was not good at all! Not sure what happened. The staff are the same but the taste is different. The string beans were not fresh and really chewy. The lemon chicken was very chickeny. Not well marinated at all. Really really disappointed!

I came here with my extended family to celebrate my uncle’s birthday. So we definitely were a larger group taking up several tables that we somehow made it into two larger table groups. One table for the cousins and the other for the aunts and uncles. We came on a weeknight and it wasn’t that busy. As you enter the restaurant you see A LOT of «BESTS» awards on the wall, but none that were recent. In fact, many of them were from the 90’s and early 2000’s. Back in those days there weren’t that many chinese restaurants to choose from but now there are plenty of chinese restaurants to choose from.
So we ordered to following:
1. Wor Won Ton Soup
2. Honey Pecan Prawns
3. Sliced Chicken with Snow Peas
4. Shredded Pork with Garlic Sauce
5. Sweet and Sour Shrimp
6. Sweet and Sour Fish Filet
7. Eggplant with Garlic Sauce
8. Pan-​Fried Noodles
I won’t go into detail with all the dishes but suffice to say they were OK. One of the things I noticed was that most of the entrées were overly saucy, if not drowning in sauce. It came to the point where some of us had to fish out for some of the meat and veggies. Also they were very greasy and oily, as well. As for taste, nothing blew my mind. The flavors were consistent with other chinese restaurants in the area that had similar dishes.
So that’s my review. I gave this place two stars. I would have given it a three, but the décor and lighting needs a major updating. Also I gave it two stars because there are other chinese restaurants in the area that I feel provide a better sit-​in experience.

I love coming here for lunch! it’s close by my work, I just wished they gave the regulars a discount every once in awhile, but oh well, I still love the mongolian beef and the wonton soup!

China Chilli is your Americanized Chinese Restaurant. It’s definitely not your traditional Chinese Restaurant that serves real good Chinese food, it’s mainly for Americans.
This place has been here forever according to my parents. They’ve been here before but that was years and years ago. Since they haven’t been here neither have I until my visit recently. The restaurant itself is a pretty big and decent in size. Although, the location isn’t all that good. It”s located in a hidden plaza on State Street that has mostly private businesses.
When we arrived we were like the only ones in the restaurant, that’s mostly because we came for a really late lunch like at 2:00 on a weekday. The waitress seated us in the corner and gave us menus and what not. I didn’t really prefer the loud music playing in the background it was rather annoying because we were the only ones in the restaurant so we could hear it pretty well.
We all ordered Lunch Specials:
House Chow Mein
Black Bean Beef with Green Beans
Sweet & Sour Pork
They first brought out some Sweet and Sour Soup for each of us to try before our meal arrives. Shortly after, they brought us some freshly fried egg rolls. You could tell they were freshly fried because you could easily see once you take a bite into the egg roll, all that oil that comes out of it! Yikes! That’s not good at all, too much oil. It tasted good probably because it was fried and full of oil! LOL.
The Lunch Specials were alright. I liked the Beef with Black Bean Sauce and Green Beans the most. Probably because it had Black Bean Sauce with it and Black Beans gave it good delicious flavor!
The Chow Mein was alright and the Sweet & Sour Pork was meh, nothing too special. Didn’t really care for that too much. The funny part was that we ordered 3 lunch specials and one was Chow Mein and they still gave us another rice. So we got 3 rices when really we only needed 2 rices. We thought that was a bit odd…

I had heard great things about this restaurant before going, so my expectations were fairly high. As you come in there are a ton of awards on the wall reflecting that reputation. However…
The restaurant was clean and well kept, even if it did have some cheap/​piecemeal furniture/​decorations. Plenty of parking out front as well — although tree roots breaking up the entrance made me thankful I brought the SUV.
The food itself was VERY good — and was served quickly and hot. Their hot and sour soup is very mild (even for a tame white boy like me) but still tasty. The food will make me come back eventually.
Now the bad: the service was efficient to a fault — more than once I had the server reach across my face, over my food, to refill a water, or pick up a plate. I had to cover my soup twice to keep the server’s sleeve out of it. Really made me feel like I was intruding on his service job, not that he was there to serve me as a guest. Pretty much ruined the experience for me.
I’d like to go back someday for the food, and hopefully better service — will update this review if/​when I do. I’d recommend it for the food for sure — the rest is a toss-​up depending on your standards/​pet peeves.

This used to be a favorite for my family until last Thursday.
I was in the bathroom helping my 2-​year-​old wash his hands. I saw a women who looked like she worked there walk into the bathroom with her kitchen gloves on, go into the stall and use the restroom, and then come out and leave without washing her hands. Remember, she came into the bathroom with kitchen gloves on and she walked out with them still on.
I didn’t want to jump to the conclusion that she worked there, so while walking my son back to the table I peeked into the kitchen as we passed it going to our table and confirmed my worst thought. The woman was there in the kitchen handling food wearing the same gloves.
YUCK!
I lost my appetite and will not be going back.

Uhhhh… so unauthentic. I kinda thought it would be by looks of the dining room and the waitstaff but I’ve never been so disappointed in Chinese food!!! At least there were decent family sized portions.
Again, we came 30 minutes before closing. So I expected really bad service. Surprisingly our waiter was really on top of our table. He even showed my bfs brother how to fill the siaopao with the duck. So that’s why I add a star.
On to the food:
Tea smoked duck:
Didn’t taste tea smoke to me. Really dry and the skin was soggy. I didn’t like the taste of the sauce it came with.
Combination chow fun:
The better out of all the dishes I tried. I wish there were more vegetables though. The meats were good and they were quite generous. Didn’t really see much egg though. And there weren’t much shrimp.
Mongolian beef:
Tasted alright. Really normal dish. Good thing they didn’t mess that up.
And finally, my beloved honey prawns:
The WORST I’ve ever had!!! I wanted to rip off the outer layer. I wasn’t sure if it just wasn’t cooked enough!!! Most disappointing honey prawns in my life.
I would definitely go somewhere else. This place is below mediocre on the food meter.

This is a pretty good (Americanized) Chinese restaurant. I got the Beef with Garlic Sauce and thought it was decent. I did eat it again the next day as leftovers so that’s definitely saying something.
Minuses: They did put way too many water chestnuts though (half of the container) but other than that it was pretty good. They do charge extra for white rice though and the rice is not particularly great.

This used to be our go-​to Chinese food place in Fremont, but the last few years we just haven’t been eating Chinese much. We finally ordered some take-​out from China Chili the other day, and overall it was very good.
The lemon chicken was every bit as good as I remember, with the sauce thoughtfully stored in a separate container. The dumplings with hot oil (boiled meat dumplings with garlic and hot oil in peanut sauce) were excellent, and the chicken friend rice was also tasty. The only slight disappointment was the shrimp with cashew nuts, which seemed more like «shrimp with water chestnuts».
Add in a container of regular steamed rice, and we got enough food for six people (or in this case, three meals for the two of us), which is a pretty good deal!

Back in the day when I worked at a local favorite called the House of Wong, a new up and coming restaurant opened up called China Chili. I remember this really started the new trend of fancy Chinese restaurants in the area and many people started to follow their ways. This was back in the late 80’s. I remember having my first honey walnut prawn here and I was hooked since. I haven’t been back to here in a long long time, perhaps over 20 years not because it was bad, but because it just got lost in the shuffle with so many other good joints around.
When my sons baseball tournament got cancelled because of rain we were driving by and I decided to stop by for lunch. It still looked the same inside with the pastels and nice table cloths, kind of like a Chinese Miami vice. I looked at the menu and was surprised on how well priced the lunches were. They had various pricing options with many different choices.
The food was very good and service was excellent, only complaint in the department was that our kid that was bringing refills smelled like BO real bad. Probably wore the same work shirt every day :(
Anyways, I am sorry that I took too long to come back and I will definitely come back more.

Anyone been to China Chili in Fremont recently? I was disappointed the last two times I went there.
This evening I ordered ake-​out that included pork fried rice and sweet and sour pork. The sweet and sour pork coating was mushy, like the pork was pre-​cooked and microwaved. The fried rice was even worse. I got chicken by mistake — but I can deal with that. The problem was the dish itself — it looked and tasted like pre-​cooked plain chicken meat mixed with pre-​cooked plain fried rice, then heated up — not even re-​fried. There was no scrambled egg added, no peas, carrots, scallions, and no flavor.
We ended up eating it anyway — It was not worth taking the food back. But for the price I paid, China Chili definitely did not meet my expectations, which was being served chinese food that was cooked fresh to my order. I’ll go somewhere else next time.

My brother’s b-​day was this past Saturday and I was going to make him Chili Verde and then it changed to Pulled Pork Sandwiches and then… it was soooo hot this weekend I decided I didn’t want to turn on my oven and raise the temperature in my little apartment any more than it already was…
Chinese food it is!
I drove over to our favorite little place in Newark and it was closed! Oh noes! Our other favorite had gone out of business recently also… what to do? China Chili was always pretty good, let me go home and look at their menu online. I can place my order online and pick up immediately? Cool!
I ordered:
Mongolian Beef
Lemon Chicken
Moo Shu Pork
Honey Pecan Prawns
Potstickers
House Chow Mein
I drove over and my order was all bagged up waiting for me. Easy peazy.
Everything was delicious. Especially the prawns and pork. It was nice and hot. Lots of meat. All four of us ate (my bf ate for 2) My bf and I had lunch and dinner the next day and there was still a bit left over. Next time we’ll know not to order as much. but we will definitely be going there again. Maybe we’ll eat at the restaurant next time.

My mom and I come here on lunch dates while she’s at work and I’m in town visiting.
Ambiance: it’s a pretty traditional-​looking Chinese restaurant! White tablecloths, fine china, and yes, they have a piano that plays itself. It played Claire de Lune the other day, yes! Even during lunch, the noise level is minimal, so my mom and I are easily able to converse across the table.
Service: we’ve never had to wait for a table during lunch, even when it seems that the main dining area is getting busy! They are so prompt with refilling waters and taking orders as well as taking away plates, and they do so with minimal intrusion! After we place our orders, they come out with the soups and eggrolls within a minute, I kid you not. The food follows shortly after, just when you’ve had enough time to have your first course. If you’re trying to get in and out of here within the lunch hour, they easily make it happen!
Food: every time I come here, I order the Mongolian beef, definitely my favorite! They have a good selection of entrees that are all around 7 – 9 dollars, if I remember correctly. And each entrée comes with soup, an eggroll, and your choice of rice. I’ve always had to leave with a little to-​go box because the portions are generous, but I’m also not as hungry at lunchtime!
Overall, this is a great local lunch spot and worth checking out if you’re craving Chinese food at a sit-​down restaurant!

Their Honey Pecan Prawns is to die for! Well, I don’t want to die yet, so less one star. LOL
Seriously, their food was awesome! Pricey little place with professional attentive employees. It’s one pricey Chinese place but worth it. Gotta love the ambiance and the classy lauriat-​style of serving their dinner combo. It’s a fine-​dining experience.
When my heart-​husband and I went there, there were several groups of Asian people. Not sure why one Unilocaler mentioned it’s an all-​White dining place. What an observation! Blind.
Anyway, I love their food. It’s not easy to please me when it comes to Chinese food, so I know myself. LOL Just look at their wall of awards. Maybe that’s why they’re expensive. It’s not a college-​budget friendly place. It’s for that very special occasion only. Or one would go broke.