California Wok

16656 Ventura Blvd, Encino - 91436
182 reviews
Chinese Soup
(818) 386-0561

We had early dinner there today. Wonton soup was delicious. Chicken in garlic sauce was extremely tasty and vegetable noodles was succulent. The service was utmost friendly and polite. Thank you.

Great food, great price

We went to pick it up after calling in the order and picked it up in 10mins. When we got home to eat it was cold, the food was so bland, and felt like it had been sitting for awhile. I do t expect much, but when you pay around $60+ for Chinese food you expect to to be warm and at least taste ok. I will not go back there again.

Definitely my favorite American Chinese restaurant nearby. Their food is always fresh and tasty. Great location and yummy hot sauce.

Good food, Large portions

Fast service, food temperature was great, amd it's a beautiful area. A little secluded, and tasted delicious.

It was Christmas Eve. I ordered online from their website for curbside pickup. I was notified that my order would be ready in 20 min.I arrived at the 30 min mark and called from my parking spot as instructed. It was not ready. There were 2 items not ready. I waited 40 min in my car on a cold evening. I eventually had to turn my car on for heat. When I called again, I had to call 4 times for an answer before the call was disconnected. Finally I said I had to cancel if it's not ready. It was magically ready.Now I know it was Christmas Eve but why give the wrong time? Just say an hour and I'd just wait in comfort at home?All the food was tasty but the spicy eggplant was too mushy to eat with chopsticks. That was one of the dishes supposedly not ready when I arrived. The BBQ pork appetizer was a little dry. It is a very generous portion and well priced.

Last night on Christmas Eve we placed an online order. Then we were sent an email 30 minutes later saying that the food was ready. We showed up and the food was not ready and there were dozens of people waiting for food. After waiting for two hours we finally left. We were supposed to be spending time with family Christmas Eve not waiting inside of a restaurant for food that never came. Some had been there for two and a half hours and still hadn't gotten their food.As over 30 people stood in the restaurant watching them bring food ready to go and setting it on the counter, the food just sat there (picture attached) and wasn't passed out to the customer that ordered it. We all kept trying to ask them to tell us who the food belonged to but they were all too busy to stop and listen to us or check the food. It just sat there. Then 15 - 20 minutes later they'd take a quick glance at it. It was very frustrating. And many people got so frustrating, like us, that they left.CA Wok knew it was Christmas Eve and that they are usually busy and yet they weren't prepared. They were understaffed and it was all poorly managed. They should have had one person just answering the phone and dealing with the online orders, one person just giving out the food to the customers as it was ready, and at least 2-3 people taking payments, checking to see when food would be ready, and dealing with customers. They did everything wrong and made customers waste time in their restaurant instead of enjoying the evening with family.

I ordered braised pork over rice and char siu bao. Taste is pretty good but the portion of the meat is too little and rice is just too much. I would suggest to reduce the amount of rice and put more meat.

Extremely disappointed, I placed an order. Was told 10-15 min and arrived in 10 min to find out they gave my order to an uber driver because he was Hispanic and I was Hispanic and we both looked alike. since I was already late, I decided to buy drinksAnd they charged me $10.57 for 3 can cokes a bottle of 8oz waterTotal rip off.