Zhen Restaurant

Open late around airport, love that they have traditional Chinese food. Service is good, Ambiance is casual and offered tradition Chinese tea. Definitely hit the spot when you crave for Chinese after Cancun for a week.

They were so kind and helpful and very friendly during dinner this evening. Menu and the food and items were so authentic, and the wok hay (flavor of wok intensity) on the beef chow fun was super super impressive to my palate.

We got some special items like eel Claypot rice and the steamed fish was quite nice..1.56lb of fresh steamed yummy protein. Solid kaixincai dish, which I found lovely. Water spinach hasn't been in my mouth for years....

Just a place that I would most definitely come back to..:::: also doesn't break the bank.

Formerly a hot pot restaurant, now a Chinese restaurant also go by the name Zhen Wei Guan. Very easy to locate, street parking is available but tend to be taken during meal hours.

We were a family of 6 that decided to go out for dinner on a Monday night, we arrived around 6pm and was greeted immediately by one of the staff and the restaurant only had two tables occupied at the time. By the time we left, the restaurant was almost full with no line. I almost want to give this restaurant a 2 star given it was a pretty good start, but it plummet to a meh experience very quickly. Right at seating, they also brought over a bowl of peanuts as starting appetizer. Someone immediately came over asking us if we're interested in ordering a clay pot rice because it takes longer, it should be ordered right away so it's timed with the rest of the dishes. We decided to skip so he allowed us more time to explore the menu.

We put in our orders and the dishes start to come out one by one. First dish landed and we don't recognize it as something we ordered. Went to the waitress and she was clueless as to how that has happened since all of the dishes we did order was listed so it wasn't misheard or anything. They also didn't offer to take it back so we were stuck with the black bean clam dish, adding to our bill. Throughout the meal, they came by periodically asking if we want to swap to a new plate. Somewhat strange because we started with dining plates, but they swap out with an appetizer plate so we eventually dined with a tiny plate after the first round.

We ordered the black garlic grape pork ribs, bean curd tong choy, truffle chicken, a tofu dish, and an octopus dish, and an egg white fried rice. Everything came out either too spicy or too salty. The fried rice was decent though, which was very much needed to balance out the overwhelming saltiness of the other dishes.

As we were wrapping up, we heard the waitresses offering leaving diners sweet soup so we were excited to have something sweet to counter all the salty food we ate. The staff promptly cleared our table leaving just the teapot behind. We waited and waited....10-15 minutes later, no sweet soup, no bill. There we were just sitting at an empty table waiting while 2 chefs standing at the kitchen doorway and I think 3 floaters at the restaurant walking back and forth helping other tables. We pretty much gave up on the dessert and finally flagged one of the waitress down and asked about our bill. She stood there, frozen and confused for a minute and we asked "is this meal for free?" She stood there for another few seconds confused, until it finally clicked and she went to grab the check.

Overall, kitchen staff need to have a lighter hand on that salt and the front staff need to get their sh*t together. They looked flabbergasted and easily overwhelmed. The restaurant is not big so with 3 floaters, they should be able to operate smoothly. Is this restaurant new? If so, give them a chance to work out the kinks. If not, then best of luck but I will not be returning.

Very authentic Cantonese food. Very budget friendly. It's one of those establishments where if you live close enough and don't feel like cooking could come here 3-4 times a week.

You don't come here for ambiance, you only come here for the food and ignore everything else.

3.5 star

Service is nice. Food portion is good even with the lunch special and they have it even on weekends. The tofu with fish rice plate is sumptuous with even mushrooms and veggie, tastes good. The scallion and ginger braised duck rice is also 9.9 lunch special but the sauce tasted the same and they changed the ingredients to dry tofu sheet instead, so I didn't taste much ginger and scallion, -1 point on that.

The steamed goose on rice roll is ok, didn't quite taste the specialty of the goose. They did offer to bring in more soy sauce, so that's nice of them.

The dim sum are good. Siu Mai is huge and the lava bread is done perfectly right with gooey fillings oozing out and it's more egg yolk than custard.

The menu is a bit pricey, the eel clay pot rice is over 49 bucks, otherwise I would like to try it, so -0.5 points.

Overall a new addition to the Millbrae restaurant area and a good new variation of Chinese menu.

Great food at a solid price point, and their lunch specials are a great deal.

We celebrated my dad's 70th birthday here, and the staff was super accommodating, bringing us little plates and a serving knife for the cake, helping us take photos, etc.

The sea bass with asparagus and sweet peas really highlighted the spring veggies, the salt-baked chicken had silky flavorful meat, and the shrimp with perilla came in a little half-basket (just $1 if you spend over $160).

Will come back to try the eel clay pot rice and the goose!

Very good Chinese food for a reasonable price. Perfect for large parties with these big round tables.

I especially like their vegetables and clay pot rice.

This place is a bit pricey. We went with a big party so we were able to try a lot of dishes. Overall everything was yummy and different from the typical Chinese restaurant offerings.

Dim Sum @8am? No problem.
Been trying out breakfast spots in Millbrae area, Zhen surpassing all others with their food quality and superior service. Dim Sum is made to order, price is reasonable, place is clean, they serve HK style milk tea also! The server Helen is truly an asset.

Zhen is a Chinese restaurant, best recognized for their specialty in authentic Taishanese styled cuisine. My immigrant parents from Taishan have said that the cooking reminds them of home. This place closes quite late (1:00 pm), perfect for a late evening grab! We love coming here for dinner! I've been here several times, and plan to continue to come. We got this fried rice (pictured) and it was very memorable! It was well flavored and presentated - you can't tell from the picture, but it's shaped like a koi fish. The biggest let down I've had is with their eel rice, which is the most popular of Taishan, and it was just not done very well here. That may have to do with where they source their eel, because the quality of the eel was simply lacking - it was soggy and no way near fresh. The ambiance and service were both decent.