Monkey King At the Brewery

Great kimchi fried rice and wings ... plus right next to Alameda isle Brewery. Always great service

Years later and I'm still coming back to get This and That Wings and Garlic Noodles! I love that I can sit next door at Alameda Brewing and Monkey King will bring my wings over as I drink a cold beer. You can even bring your dog to Alameda Brewing, which makes it all the better!

If you ever find yourself at Monkey King at the Brewery, you can't go wrong with This and That Wings or Garlic Noodles!

Eh. The food wasn't impressive but the atmosphere is clutch.
I haven't been to the OG location in years. Last I remember the chicken and fries were delicious. Going off of memory, the food doesn't taste the same.
The place wasn't too full. You order at the register then grab your seat. I received my order almost immediately. It was piping hot. The presentation is nice. Lots of garlic and some jalapeños. Unfortunately, it had no flavor. In my opinion of course.
I would still recommend this place though. It's a nice chill place to hang out, chit chat and watch the game whilst plenty affordable food options

Side note: They also sell gelato

Ok, I wasn't going to yelp about my recent meal...but I must. For the record I am not a hater but my food was the worst. I had not been there in years and it maybe years before I go again if ever.

Where do I begin...ok let me start with the dish that was the most awful. I was lazy and wanted someone else to cook for me. So I had a brilliant idea...MONKEY KING BREWERY! Why not???? I suggest it and everyone but one person said no! After eating some of the food I clearly understood why I should have left it alone. Have you had a meal that was awful but you endured it because you paid for it!!! Well that was this meal.

I looked at the menu and became immediately confused. The variety was off centered for me from lumpia to gumbo to mus shu wraps‍. I was vacillating on if this is Asian fusion or what!

So though I consider my gumbo pretty good, I have recipes from, what i think are some of the best true traditional taste... old school.

1) gumbo as spicy hot and sweet. If you know anything about gumbo spicing hot and sweet is a no! It was a red soup made with tomato or marinara sauce...it was spicy hot with sugar????? Sad and a miss. There was no crab nor essence of crab in it. I found three shrimp and 4 - 1/4 pieces of unidentifiable links. The gumbo was so spicy hot I needed tums and pepto to calm the flames in my guts.

2) dry fried ribs with fried - I could not find any meat on the sad looking carcass they passed off as a rib more grizzle with a bone.

3) I ordered green onion and egg fried rice- I get a notification they were out of rice and they provided no substitution.

4) garlic noodles were dry, flat and lacked flavor. The noodles just laid on the plate, bland and flat.

5) salt and pepper chicken wings, meatless and again flavorless with no dipping sauce.

Next time we are hungry, I would rather eat a bag of Cheetos and drink water.

Overall the meal was expensive and disappointing.

Second visit, the food is always good. The customer service is terrible, and the ambiance in the brewery side is chill.

I went for specific dishes, which included the Crab Fried Rice which is one of my favorites. I also came for the Thai Iced Tea and they said they ran out. On a Saturday? You would think they would plan better for a weekend rush, but as I said, the customer service is not the best. At all.

Ordered the Hanoi chicken wings, they were really good. Fried to perfection with lots of flavor. The Garlic Noodles with Fried Chicken bites was very good. The noodles were thick, Yakisoba noodles instead of the thin noodles, but still very delicious.

Also ordered the Gumbo, which is NOT the traditional Gumbo you would get at a Creole restaurant. This was tomato based, with a sweet flavor and a kick to it. On a scale of 1-10, I would give it a 4.5-5. Definitely do not have to try it again.

Food is good, service is bad, what can you do? Get the food to go and call it a day.

7 out of 5 stars. When I say this is my favorite, it's my favorite.

This place is soooo good, my friends and I went here a lot in college. I love this place because it's quick and the workers are so nice. You order then sit.

I always get the garlic noodles and side of salt and pepper wings. I think next time, I will get the full order of noodles because dang it was so good I wanted more the next day. Tbh, I don't think I have tried other things but I know people said it's really good.

Try this combo next time you stop by this place. I miss it and want more, NOW!

Very nice let us try ANY beers and the garlic shrimp and rice sooo good. Bomb. I'm allergic to garlic but id eat that everyday I don't care I'll stay on the toilet.
Plus the beer perfect touch. Great ambiance Fr

Love this place!! We use to go to the other location all the time but it's always so busy!

Lemon pepper wings were so good! Crispy and tasty.
Dry fried ribs and fries were 8/10 I wish the ribs had more meat. It was fatty and lots of big bone pieces. It's no my usual dry fried rib pieces that I'm use too. I wish the fries had more flavor or salt.
We also got jambalaya fried rice, all for less than $40!

I'll be back for the wings! They have so many flavor options.

Staff is really nice. They also sell gelato! Service is really quick. We went for lunch on a weekend. We will be back soon!

This place is so good and affordable! The portions are reasonable too.

Definitely get the garlic noodle - they used udon noodles and the flavor was awesome.

I got the salt and pepper chicken wings and it came with free fries. The wings were nicely fried, savory, and delicious.

I got the tater tots too and everything I bought cost like $22 only. Highly recommend you come here and try the food out!

It's oknormaly the food is amazing but I recently tried the gumbo . My nigga this shit is not it bro like it taste like syrup and random food . I thought it would taste better adding the rice . Man I was totally wrong like past wrong , matter of fact I was not even going to make a post about it but hey it is what it is