“ So it is Chinese New Year's today. I forgot to make my own version of Jai (Buddhist delight-strictly vegetarian) last night and tradition dictates you should not consume any animal product (creatures with a face) for today. So Jai it is. There are many restaurants that can make this dish. Some are decent, some are bad. The challenge: this entree has up to 18 unique ingredients, one should not cook everything at the same time. each ingredient needs to prepared individually before it is mixed together. And most restaurants don't include all 18 ingredients. So how was this dish at Far East? It was very good. Each ingredient seemed to be cooked separately before it was mixed together- there were no under or over cooked items. Perfect. The New Years Jai at Far East contained: fried tofu, carrots, whole shiitake mushrooms (a plus), vermicelli rice noodles, snow peas, wood ear fungus , black fungus (another plus!) And napa cabbage. So why not 5 stars? it only contained 8 ingredients (again- unless you make it yourself most restaurants would also reduce the number of ingredients), there was a subtle aftertaste probably of the use of msg, and the price point was $20.53 (includes tax)-a bit high for a strictly vegan dish. But the dish looked good and the taste was better than most other restaurants. ”

“ A light lunch with 87yr old auntie ! Lightly curried rice plate with special chinese style stewed beef And Fried won ton in soup Hard to come by in sac ”

“ Far East Cafe has been around for YEARS. I have never had a bad meal here...always tasty and piping HOT. I came for dinner after a quick 9 holes at William Land Park. It was early for dinner so they were not busy at all. I was told to sit anywhere . Menu and glass of water was immediately provided. I ordered the West Lake beef soup and curry beef stew over rice. Like I mentioned earlier...tasty and nice n HOT. It was a lot of food for 1 person...next night's dinner While enjoying my meal, noticed they do lots of to go orders All in All a GREAT experience. Will be back ”

“ Delicious old school Cantonese style cooking! Being from the Bay Area and eating all my life this place met my expectations. Had the set dinner #C. Steamed fish, soy sauce chicken and salt and pepper spare ribs were my favorite. Good flavor and friendly helpful service. Older decor but clean and well kept. Would definitely come back again! ”

“ Best Chinese food I've had in Sac! Nothing is overly greasy, had the 218 family dinner with ample portions and - wide variety of tasty dishes. Good mix of meat and veggie dishes. The soy sauce chicken was my favorite-better than Tealicious across the street. Several other families were there too having larger Sunday family lunch. ”

“ This is restaurant is the closest chinese restaurant to my house and I dine here quite frequently. Service is always good, prices competitive and the food is almost always fresh, hot and delicious. On my most recent visit was craving some hot soup so got the beef stew won ton soup. It was filling and broth not too salty. Definitely satisfying. I'll be back soon I'm sure. ”

“ I've eaten here numerous times but finally got around to writing a review. I stopped by at lunchtime and ordered the lunch specials: chicken with green beans and Mongolian beef. Each lunch special comes with chow mein, steamed rice, and a small bowl of egg drop soup. The restaurant was getting busy, but the servers were quick and provided excellent customer service. There's plenty of seating, so even during the lunch rush, it didn't feel overcrowded. As for the food, my chicken with green beans lacked flavor, and the chow mein was a bit too salty for my taste this time. However, on other occasions, the food has been better, so I'm chalking this up to an off day. I also ordered the duck over rice and BBQ pork over rice to-go, and both were delicious, highly recommend them those for lunch special! One issue I have to mention, though, is that a customer seated behind me had an extremely strong body odor, which made it difficult to enjoy my meal. I'm usually pretty empathetic and not easily bothered, but it was overwhelming. While this isn't the restaurant's fault, it did affect my overall experience. Overall, Far East Cafe is a solid spot, especially for takeout. I'll give it another try. ”

“ Far East is one of our go to Chinese restaurants for take out. We dined in recently and was seated at a booth. We enjoyed salt and pepper ribs, green beans, chicken wings, fried rice and a clay pot. Food came quickly and everything was delicious as expected. We even had some leftovers to go home with. When you dine in, they serve complimentary soup to start and dessert (they have herbal jelly). Staff was attentive. We'll be back again soon. ”

“ I remember our last sit down meal here was September of 2005 bc we used to frequent here quite regularly with my BIL & his wife. In the meantime my BIL had passed on that following month. We don't really eat Chinese food all that much even though my wife is Chinese American. Fast forward earlier this month we had a Japanese family event here unbeknownst to my sister & BIL they chose CNY 2024 day to gather. Yes the restaurant was packed even at lunchtime! We sat in their third event room furtherest away from the front door. It was a convenient private room for us. We enjoyed a ten course delightful filling meal with soup, seafood & veggies, Peking ribs & salt & pepper ribs, walnut shrimp, crab, chicken & noodles, bok choy & mushrooms, salt and pepper fish & beef dishes. We were very impressed with their service & food was truly authentic. Not oily at all & dishes were of a very generous serving. There was so much food for our table of six that they had to go in to go cartons & boxes for other family members who couldn't attend. I'm sure we would return now when we get an urge for Chinese food even for food to go! I guess during those 20 years in between they had change of ownership but it still was going strong here! Plan accordingly! I could have dock off one star for the one person restroom but hey don't wait if it's urgent. We won't hesitate next time especially for that favorite walnut shrimp dish! YUM! ”