Address: | 2051 Robinson St, Oroville, CA 95965, USA |
Phone: | +1 530-533-1488 |
Site: | tongfonglow.com |
Rating: | 4.2 |
Working: | Closed 11AM–9PM 11AM–9PM 11AM–9PM 11AM–9PM 11AM–9PM 11AM–9PM |
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A Private User
My self and family use to always go to Tong Fong Lows, so I decided to order to go for my sons 15th b-day. I tried to order my food the day before to insure them enough time and out of common curtsey. Well that is when I should of got the hint and order from some place else. When I called and told the lady what I wanted, she simply said that she was too busy to take my order and I need to call later!! And then hung up on me! I thought ok maybe it was a miss understanding. I called the next day and placed my order, paid for it ahead of time. When I pick up the food, I was in a hurry and "trusted this long time Oroville Restaurant" and did not check my order. I got home to a house full of hungry teenagers only to find that I was shorted several things. I called to let them know and asked how long until I can pick up the remaining items. I was called a LAIR and told that I was tring to cheat them!! After minutes of trying to reason with the person on the line and several minutes of her yelling at me, I settled for "the free noodles". $100 later and an hour of stress, of how I was supose to host a house full of teenagers with very little food, we settled for $5 pizzas!!!! My point to telling a short verson of my experience with them is that local shops and restaurants want us to stay local, but they are the ones that drive us "locals" away!!!
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Annette DeBrotherton
While Oroville at one time was famous for Chinese American food, most of these went out of business due to Orovilles relatively small market (certainly too small to support the kind of variety available). Of the better quality restaurants available, one of the oldest of Cantonese styling is Tong Fong Low. It is a very popular place, and considered THE place for Chinese in town by most members of the community due to ample portion size, good to excellent execution of menu choices, and moderate to low cost. Does a booming take out business alongside a packed restaurant in Downtown business district, serving both lunch and dinner. Located across street from the historic community owned State Theater. Other Asian food styles do well here including Thai, Hmong (owing to the huge local Hmong population), and the occasional Sushi bar, but Oroville excells at Cantonese style food from a legacy of largely Canton Province Chinese gold miners from the gold rush. You can find a 5 star Cantonese restaurant more easily in San Francisco, but for backwater Oroville, this is a real and nicely affordable treat.
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Richard Brucker
Uncle Pings was closed so I tried this restaurant. Absolutely the worst Chinese food I have had and I lived in San Francisco and know good Chinese food. As opposed to Uncle Pings which has excellent food the three dishes I ordered at Ton Fong Low were bad. The egg rolls were dripping in grease and had what looked like just a little cabbage in them. I could not eat them. The fried calamari was just a big pile of fried batter. There were bits of calamari in them but barely. I could not eat them. The chow mien was made of what looked like Top Ramen noodles...horrible. There was a sign on the counter that said customers should check their orders before they leave the restaurant. I wish I had. I see there are some good reviews here but I cant recommend it.
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Don Pryde
I first had my first dinner at Charlies Place in 1945-46. We lived in Biggs on a ranch. My parents referred to it as "Charlies Place" because Charlie was they owner and he always came out an greeted everyone that came to his restaurant. I remember the food was super good. My three brothers and myself heard that "Charles Place" was still in business but its real name is Tong Fong Low. So we arranged to return some 70 years later. We found the food as good as we remembered and that is saying something because you tend to remember things to be better than they really were.
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Anna Olson
I am very unhappy and upset. My daughter called at 8:40pm and she was sitting on the phone waiting for someone to answer it. She was waiting 5 minutes till someone answered it. Then when someone finally did answer it. They tell her that if she would have called 5 minutes ago. She would have been able to make an order. This is the first time that this has ever happened to my daughter and myself. I am very upset and uphappy with the service. I will pass this around the internet to let other people know.
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kristel schliesmayer
I eat a lot of chinese food and I dont see why this is great. It was good, but not great. Sweet and sour sauce was watery and tasted like cinnamon or something, it also made the chicken mushy. If you eat there get sauce on the side. Shrimp was great. Chow mein was not what Im use to with veggies and such. It was just noodles and they were not good. Rice was rice really. The best part was their mushi which we ordered specifically. Id eat that all day. Overall, its an ok place, but Ive had better.
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Cale Lambert
Ever since new manager took over last year and Sandy is gone, this place has kinda gone down hill..Rude, uncourteous wait staff that ignores you and acts annoyed at request(s) for things. Also the food quality has gotten modestly worse, still large portions but it tastes more generic, salty, msg-filled and panda express-ish, but a few menu items have managed to stay pretty authentic..I miss the Charlies of the 90s.
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Katy Roberts
Slow service at first but our food came with 10 minutes of ordering, so that made up for waiting 20 for our waitress to take our order. Server was nice, restaurant is clean and well lot and decorated. The food was ok, fairly greasy and bland. The portions were GIANT, one plate could feed 3 easily. The egg rolls tasted like the were fried in dirty grease, but they were still good. All in all an ok experience.
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A Private User
Wow the workers and food here are amazing! The waitresses are very quick. I turned my head around to converse with my friends for just a couple of seconds and a waitress refilled our waters without me even knowing. They were very on top of their work. We only waited about 2 minutes for our food to be ready. Tong Fong Lows was awesome!
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Chiang Wu
I wouldnt necessarily call this Chinese food, but its one of the few Asian places in town. Its more of an American Chinese food. Im only giving it a 3 because of few other restaurant selections choices and it tastes better than Uncle Pings. Stick with String beans and salt and pepper fish filet and you should be good.
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Karhlie Shaw
One of the best restaurants in Oroville hands down. Amazing food with great flavor. You really cant go wrong with anything on the menu. Portions are large enough to share AND take home leftovers! The staff is always on top of there job and constantly filling your drinks. Awesome food and awesome staff.
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Sandra Bouldridge
Just like China town in S.F. lovely environment and great food at a great price the people that bash ...probably have never worked a day in there lives or ever had to deal with grumpy people that complain and should have never left there house in the first place ....try a J.O.B. for once then TALK....
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Loretta Erickson
Today I looked this up on web by stAr rating. 2 bites worst slop I have ever eaten. I consider myself a good cook. I couldnt find one thing in my plate that didnt taste ultimately food court at its worst! Give me my money back and I will delete this well deserved rating that should be A 0