Kung Fu BBQ

Great food. We had hot pot, both spicey and regular broth. Tried beef, lamb, pork, fish, quail eggs. Many vegetables to choose from, a few of which I could not identify. The woman helping us was great since it was our first hot pot experience. She mixed up some sauce for us too, which was perfect. One price for all the veggies and protein you want. And a soda included. Delicious! The day we went it was almost 100 degrees outside. Winter would definitely be better for hot pot.

Excellent service. The waitress was very attentive. She made sauce for all of us which was delicious. The soup dumplings were very good. Glad we came.

I hate to give one star reviews. The food was fine but the service was abysmal,slow and they seemed to be out of half of there menu. We waited for 25 minutes to get our order in. We then waited 30 minutes before the first dish and every dish after that seemed to take an extra ten minutes. To add insult to injury and after we got our first dish we had to raid the wait station to get dishes and chopsticks.

This is the only place in C-U where I’ve found xiao long bao. Their soup dumplings are pretty good and at a reasonable price for such tasty broth inside. Service is average overall, but really good if you are taken care of by the owner(?)—she made sure I knew how to eat them properly and was very kind. The building is a dead zone for cell reception, and not all of my utensils were properly cleaned, but I still plan to return regularly for the dumplings.

The kbbq here is very sparse. There's only like 6 choices of meat and they all aren't very fresh. Very mediocre Korean BBQ. I haven't had their hot pot but it's probably better. Their normal cooked food is not bad. I like their scallion pancake with beef.

Their food is definitely leaning more towards quality over price, though not to say that it's extraordinarily expensive or something. If you show how you can actually appreciate the quality of their food the owner will be very easy to get friendly with 😛 Anyways, their dim sum is most likely the best in the area (I used probably most likely because maybe I haven't tried every single place yet), especially their Xiao Longbao, which would be among the better ranks even in China. Their noodles definitely feels in-house with more effort going into it, as it's got that snap and elasticity of something kneaded extensively. Also, while not on their menu due to low order volume, you can custom order Mantou (馒头) and stuff (pictures on my takeout order, and please forget the bad lighting), and theirs is most definitely the best in the area (they claim you can't find better ones even in Chicago, but I'll reserve my opinion on that claim since I haven't explored Chicago for these types of things). Chinese might find them expensive compared to the prices in China, but they are definitely of high quality and worth the price when using an American price standard. They have a very dense and even spread of small bubbles inside, giving it a very good texture. Just one example for the effort that they put into their food.

I dined here during lunch and had one of their noodle soups. While it wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either. If I have no other options and I am on campus, I might eat here again? But if not, I probably won't come here for their noodle soups again.