Flavors from Asia brought to you by Simi’s Cafe. Tasty, authentic Chinese dishes, aromatic Vietnamese beef noodle soup (pho), and famous Pad Thai are made from scratch! I love trying new places. Inside is very quaint. Family liked it. Soups are great
A very nice neat and clean place pleasant service all the way around. I would have gave it five stars but they don't use silverware and plates it's all in plastic. I thought the fried rice, the lo mein, the Mongolian beef for all very good, the General Tao's chicken was a little soggy and soft. Coke is in a bottle so me refills. The weekday lunch menu I think was a very good value.
This is my family's favorite local Chinese restaurant. It's small but has great food and service. We highly recommend the orange chicken and crab puffs. Honestly Id recommend just about everything on the menu. If it's your first time going ask the owner for recommendations. Good chance she will be your server as well.
First time here and came in for lunch. The food was delicious and the server was super friendly!! Had the sliced beef pho, pot stickers, veggie egg rolls and some tea that was amazing. Will definitely be back to try some of the other dishes and for the amazing service that we received.
The staff here is so nice! Even during the lunch rush they take time to get to know their customers.The food is excellent and served fast. I've been here several times and I've enjoyed every visit.Seriously, try the Vietnamese summer rolls and the chicken lettuce cups, SO GOOD!
Diamond in the rough! It would be easy to pass by and not see this restaurant, but don't! Definitely some of the best Asian food I've had in the valley. Me and my guest ordered the lettuce wrap appetizer, Mongolian Beef, and Orange Chicken. The only complaint I have is that they are short staffed, which caused a delay in getting our food. The appetizer was served 2nd in the line of food served to our table. Due to covid, they only have a few tables available, so it might be worth doing take out. I will be back.
They have amazing food. Always fresh, always delicious. Even my picky kids request it all the time. Diane is absolutely the best! She is so sweet, kind, and always makes our experience incredible. She needs a raise if she doesn't own the place
(longer review posted on Yelp)Sadly, we had a terrible experience today at Simi’s Cafe. I heard great things about their food and that they didn’t use any MSG in it. In addition I called to double check, and they verified.Simi’s is located in an extremely run down building and has little to no curb appeal. However, the interior is much better. While small, it appeared well cleaned and the Asian Candy was a cute twist. We were greeted by Diane, who was very kind. However, things start to go downhill then.We had to wait over 30 minutes to order appetizers because we were informed they “had to clean their kitchen”. We waited patiently however I’m confused why they would do this during dining hours.I actually thought it was quite rude, many patrons got upset and left due to this, but we were starving.Firstly, they need to update their online menu’s, as many items listed are no longer available.Diane was nice enough to replicate their BBQ Pork Slices, though. We also ordered Potstickers and Lettuce Wraps.The BBQ Pork Slices were just okay, they had a large amount of fat and no sauce on them. We were given Sweet & Sour Sauce and Wasabi Mustard, which seemed strange as BBQ Pork Slices are usually coated in Asian BBQ Sauce. The Wasabi Mustard was practically inedible due to how spicy it was.The Potstickers were really good, and the lettuce wraps were okay. There was hardly any lettuce for the amount of meat. For some reason the food was served on paper plates, which didn’t bother us but I wonder why they do this.For Entrees- we ordered the Orange Chicken, the Filet Mignon with Kalbi Sauce, the Garlic Chicken, and the Thai Basil. Diane was able to customize some of the dishes, so we were excited to try the food.While waiting for the food, I stopped by the restroom. There was mold on the ceiling tiles and the sink only had cold water.The food came out only 2-3 minutes after the appetizers which was disappointing as we didn’t even get the chance to finish our appetizers.The Orange Chicken was horrible. The Chicken was 90% breading, and the Chicken was extremely hard. The Sauce was almost indelible due to how sweet it was. (1/5)The Filet Mignon with Kalbi Sauce wasn’t any better. If anything, it was much worse. For $18, I would have expected more than 6 small cubes of steak.The Filet was practically swimming in sauce, and most of the dish was vegetables, and a lot of onion. They pre-cook their steak and it tasted really old, and the sauce was salty and left a rotten taste in our mouth.It was chewy and grisly, nothing like Filet Mignon should taste. (0/5)The Garlic Chicken tasted like straight MSG. It had that horrible salt aftertaste and the person that ordered the dish couldn’t even finish it because of how salty it was.It was obviously a pre-packaged sauce riddled with chemicals, because it lacked any authenticity Garlic Chicken should have. There was absolutely no spice to it so it just tasted like salt.In addition, the vegetables were not cooked so they were raw and hard. Nobody could point out a Garlic Flavor, just a salty flavor that left much to be desired. (0/5)Finally, the Thai Basil. This dish was also an Americanized version- there was NO basil flavor and it was so spicy we could not eat it. The waitress told us that it was served Medium- to me it tasted like Hot! (0/5)In addition, to make things worse, we all got a HORRIBLE stomachache after eating the food. We think it was MSG or chemicals (even though they claimed they didn’t use it).We had to go home because we all had headaches, stomach pain, nausea, ect. I am honestly puzzled how this place gets 4.5 Stars with over 700 reviews.It’s possible we went on an off day however food poisoning or MSG poisoning is not okay especially after being told there was no MSG after we explained that we had a severe sensitivity.I would stay away from this place, with all the 5 Stars I seem like the odd one out but the experience we had today was completely and utterly unacceptable.
It was just okay. The chicken taste like burn fry oil.
The orange chicken was so dry. And after taking home and soaking in sauce still dry. What the heck. Flower know has egg drop soup no flavor. Shrimp and snow pea awesome, good sauce.How this gets 5 stars has to be friends posting. Because people next to us where not pleased either. You pay now it should all be eatable. Can not send back never know what they do. Just don't go back.