Newark Cafe

Father's day dinner 6/22 ordered all our favorites. Shredded pork, beef in flaming oil, Hunan tofu, and cabbage and smoked pork this comes in a wok need to let it cook more and stir occasionally getting the oil and season from the bottom. Well worth the extra effort in tenderness and taste getting into the cabbage. Guys gotta give this place a try. Remember to ask for less maha the numbing spice. I can't stand this spice and most likely you won't like it either. Came for my bday lunch. Splurged on a BBQ whole fish. Much better to eat it freshly cooked and not having to take home, tastes much better. Glad covid seems to be finally behind us with only better times to come. This is so far one of the best Szechuan style restaurants around. Saw the reviews and been trying to come for the last 6months. Worth every dollar the food is that good but reasonably priced. Have to give it a try you won't be sorry. Edit: Make sure to mention less of the numbing spice Mah or else if you're not use to it you won't like the food. Update 5/25 came here after reopening during the shelter in place. New cook but for still very good. Not sure about authenticity but doors tastes good to me. Shredded pork dish use to have a sour taste is not sweet and spicy to me better. Beef stew is another improvement in my mind. Order to go they're fast. One of the old cooks is back so the food is back to the same if you're a previous custo.er. this is now my go to restaurant for spicy Chinese food highly recommended. Update food is almost as good as before but the best deal around.

One of the most delicious Chinese spots that I happened to stop by at when shopping at the nearby grocery store. An unassuming storefront with a pretty extensive menu. Ordered some spring onion pancakes, stir-fried pork belly, eggplant and tofu. Every single dish was perfect. The stir-fried pork belly had the perfect amount of spice and decent portion size which mixed with the spring onion pancakes to tone down the heat made for an extremely enjoyable meal. The tofu eggplant was also expertly blanched and fried while the tofu was crispy on the outside while creamy and delicious on the inside. Ordered in-person and was able to pick up within 20 minutes while doing some shopping nearby.

This place is a waste of your time and your money. First of all, the staff here are rude, inattentive, and just unpleasant in general. When they brought us the food, they just kind of threw it on the edge of the table and left without saying a word. When I asked for rice, the waiter acted like he could not be bothered. As if asking him to do his job was such an inconvenience. As for the food, I'd rather be stranded on an island and force fed celery and Brussels Sprouts than eat their food again. Maybe it's because we didn't order the super spicy dishes, but the food was just so bad. There is no real flavor because everything is just drenched in salt and oil. If I took their food and ran it under a faucet, the water would be probably saltier than the Dead Sea. Lastly their menu is misleading. As you can see from the photos, the menu for their Salt And Pepper Prawns clearly shows the already peeled jumbo prawns. But the dish that we got (in addition to being covered in salt) had shrimp that was the unpeeled, with head, tails, and poop still attached. This may not be a big deal to some people, but I highly dislike it when their menu looks completely different from the food served. Also, the menu showed there were little red chunks of pepper, but the picture of the actual food had none of that. As usual, when I brought this up with the waitress, she brushed me off and said the picture is only a "reference." Well, it helps if the reference resembles the dish I'll be served instead of something completely different. I wouldn't mind standing outside the restaurant telling people to go somewhere else if I had the time. This place brings sucks to a whole new level.