Uncle Kwok

Esmeralda Fregoso

I've only had their Kung poa tofu lunch special but it is so good! lots of flavor. definitely my go to lunch spot now. for $10.75 you get fried rice, soup, an egg roll and an entree: what a deal!!!! The owners are so nice and will make you feel welcomed!

Sarah Leonard

Do you go here for the food? NO. I go here because it has the nicest people who work there. There's this one waiter who used to be soooo sweet to my 13 year old when she was 2 and 3 and 4 and would have temper tantrums. He still says, It's the Baby! when we come in. He's a sweetheart. They work really hard and the food is okay. They are good people. VIVA APTOS !! Aptos Indy Local Owners. Good folks <3 <3 <3

Michael Weisert

Consistently great food. Easy online ordering for quick pick up. We enjoyed Kwok's for 30 years. The seafood soup is full of calamari, shrimp and scallops. Um, yum. White velvet chicken and Mongolian beef are favorites. Go eat Chinese :-)

Courtney Laschkewitsch

We have gone here for over 7 years! We know the owners and love the food! We like best the chicken dishes (cashew chicken, sweet and sour chicken), and the noodle dishes (Hong Kong style). Would highly recommend to anyone!

Allison Azariyan Diazo

My family and I have always gone to Uncle Kwok's, since I can remember. I like to order the sizzling rice soup, and I love the chicken base they use, instead of the tomato base! Peacefully quiet restaurant. Enjoy!

George DeCarlo

Come ready to be served a good amount of any entree on the menu. We had the Mandarin special for two; we had to take home 1/3 after we had eaten more than enough. Friendly fast service and fair prices. Do not be an epicurean.

The food was really tasty! I moved to watsonville from San Jose, earlier this year, and I was bummed that I couldn't get decent Asian food. Now I've found it. I will definitely be eating there often.

My family does not live in Santa Cruz, but it is a big hit with family members who do, as a result of which we often end up at Uncle Kwok's whenever we visit SC. Good food, LOTS of food so go with an empty stomach. The service is personal and friendly and the prices are reasonable.

Their food is very delicious. They have a wide variety of food to choose. Lunch specials before 3pm are really reasonable price. I recommend eating Uncle Kwok's food. Sometimes if you call ahead for food around 4:30pm until 5pm ittakes a little while to get food. Like 20 minutes if you like to wait. Other than that I'd give it a five star if the wait wasent so long.

Lori DeGrace

Their food is very delicious. They have a wide variety of food to choose. Lunch specials before 3pm are really reasonable price. I recommend eating Uncle Kwok's food. Sometimes if you call ahead for food around 4:30pm until 5pm ittakes a little while to get food. Like 20 minutes if you like to wait. Other than that I'd give it a five star if the wait wasent so long.

Tina Rachelle (Marvel Girl)

The food was really tasty! I moved to watsonville from San Jose, earlier this year, and I was bummed that I couldn't get decent Asian food. Now I've found it. I will definitely be eating there often.

Shirisha Shankar

My family does not live in Santa Cruz, but it is a big hit with family members who do, as a result of which we often end up at Uncle Kwok's whenever we visit SC. Good food, LOTS of food so go with an empty stomach. The service is personal and friendly and the prices are reasonable.

I wasn't impressed... Their online menu doesn't really tell their hours. The first time I showed up it was a Saturday at about 1:30... there was no sign of life .. however they had set up a pick-up window. I made a call and was told they were on lunch break until sometime after 4. I did go back... and the portions were big - our normal order of one dish each with an added rice and/or soup was over the top...the two of us had leftovers for two days. It was good food...however I have had better! No eat in experience... they are still on COVID protocols. I would go again if this was what I was looking for. Thanks.

I have always enjoyed their food, however today the customer service was off. I made an online order and when I hadn't received a call back after 20 min, the lady said she was not opening for 30 mins and I could pick up the food in 45 mins. I had no time to wait, so immediately canceled the order immediately, I spoke directly to the same lady. Like 2 hours later she called to say order is ready, I told her I canceled, she yelled at me. It was rude.

Paul Neuman

I wasn't impressed... Their online menu doesn't really tell their hours. The first time I showed up it was a Saturday at about 1:30... there was no sign of life .. however they had set up a pick-up window. I made a call and was told they were on lunch break until sometime after 4. I did go back... and the portions were big - our normal order of one dish each with an added rice and/or soup was over the top...the two of us had leftovers for two days. It was good food...however I have had better! No eat in experience... they are still on COVID protocols. I would go again if this was what I was looking for. Thanks.

Bluepill Seven25twenty1

I have always enjoyed their food, however today the customer service was off. I made an online order and when I hadn't received a call back after 20 min, the lady said she was not opening for 30 mins and I could pick up the food in 45 mins. I had no time to wait, so immediately canceled the order immediately, I spoke directly to the same lady. Like 2 hours later she called to say order is ready, I told her I canceled, she yelled at me. It was rude.

The restaurant has some pretty good prices for the standard dishes and they’re not too bad for what you pay for. However I ordered the crab Rangoon and there was barely any filling inside the breading. Some of them didn’t have any filling at all. Considering that 8 of them costs $13 plus tax you’re definitely not getting what you paid for with that appetizer. Also their online ordering system doesn’t seem to work. DoorDash may work? Unfortunately two stars from me

Very disappointed. I feel bad giving just one star because the food was delivered so idk maybe their service is really good... But the food was awful. The chicken was inedible so dry and stringy. The mandarin spareribs were coated in breading so you had to be extra careful eating it. The appetizer sampler was weird. The shrimp was pounded out to the thickness of a piece of paper. The chicken fried rice was decent but made with dark chicken that looked grey, but was at least edible. I bit down on a tiny piece of bone in the spareribs so I stopped before I chipped a tooth. Why is it so hard to find decent Chinese food in the area??

Sarah K

Very disappointed. I feel bad giving just one star because the food was delivered so idk maybe their service is really good... But the food was awful. The chicken was inedible so dry and stringy. The mandarin spareribs were coated in breading so you had to be extra careful eating it. The appetizer sampler was weird. The shrimp was pounded out to the thickness of a piece of paper. The chicken fried rice was decent but made with dark chicken that looked grey, but was at least edible. I bit down on a tiny piece of bone in the spareribs so I stopped before I chipped a tooth. Why is it so hard to find decent Chinese food in the area??

I ordered the black bean chicken lunch special. I asked for fried rice and received white. The hot and sour soup wasn't hot or sour. It just tasted chicken broth. Also the egg roll was soggy and burned on one end. The black bean chicken and rice were the only edible food I received. I usually don't leave reviews but, this way just a poor example of what Chinese food is supposed to taste and look like.

Looking for great Chinese food? Look elsewhere. There is NO WAY the chicken used in my dish was made fresh today. NO WAY. It was dried out, tough and tasted like they had microwaved it, then tossed it in a pan to fry it. And for the prices? Wow. 17.15 for a single general chicken dinner. Yeah. Absurd. I cannot for the life of me understand the other reviewers. Horrible dish. Horrible. Soup and egg roll were just okay. There’s your one star for that.

Rachel Stettner

I ordered the black bean chicken lunch special. I asked for fried rice and received white. The hot and sour soup wasn't hot or sour. It just tasted chicken broth. Also the egg roll was soggy and burned on one end. The black bean chicken and rice were the only edible food I received. I usually don't leave reviews but, this way just a poor example of what Chinese food is supposed to taste and look like.

Daddy B.

Looking for great Chinese food? Look elsewhere. There is NO WAY the chicken used in my dish was made fresh today. NO WAY. It was dried out, tough and tasted like they had microwaved it, then tossed it in a pan to fry it. And for the prices? Wow. 17.15 for a single general chicken dinner. Yeah. Absurd. I cannot for the life of me understand the other reviewers. Horrible dish. Horrible. Soup and egg roll were just okay. There’s your one star for that.

We have never been more disappointed. We've gone to Uncle Kwoks for years but haven't ordered from them recently. Spent 70+ bucks for tonight's dinner and it all just went into the garbage can!!!! Horrible doesn't even describe it. The Pork Fried Rice had no flavor and doesn't even look like it hit a wok! The Egg Rolls were mostly cabbage, greasy and flavorless as well. The Pot stickers we tough and greasy. The Hong Kong noodle dish was just downright disgusting! Tough, chewy mushrooms, shrimp that hadn't been deveined, over cooked pork "spareribs", under cooked pasty beef in the Beef and Broccoli and an underlying nasty flavor. All in all it was greasy, tasteless, slimy, tough, under cooked and completely disappointing. Basically, we just threw $70.00 in the trash and ordered from Golden China in Watsonville. Uncle Kwoks........you're not what you used to be and lost our business.

The Chinese restaurant is not fresh and dirty. Be careful not to eat poisoned food in this restaurant. It's best not to eat the fried food. The oil is black and black! Carefully carcinogenic? This restaurant for decades! Advise everyone to be careful not to go to prevent the disease! There are also front desk attendants who are in their 50s. Service is poor. The dish is warm and not hot! Very poor service! Special characters tell everyone. Attention please

None of the food is fresh. Sweet and sour chicken was 2 day old breading with wayyy overcooked and multple times. Fried rice is just rice with 3 pieces of old chicken. The sweet and sour chicken (breading no chicken) tastes a little like buffalo wing sauce which was odd too. Chowmein tasted off. Like it had been spiked with something dark. Im not sure but I will never eat here again. 35.00 plus tip on takeout in the trash.

Sarah A

$14 for dried noodles. Just dried noodles. No seafood, vegetables or anything else. The other food was mainstream level Grocery store level “Chinese food”. Doubt they’ll let me post the real pic of the food they offer.

Charles

None of the food is fresh. Sweet and sour chicken was 2 day old breading with wayyy overcooked and multple times. Fried rice is just rice with 3 pieces of old chicken. The sweet and sour chicken (breading no chicken) tastes a little like buffalo wing sauce which was odd too. Chowmein tasted off. Like it had been spiked with something dark. Im not sure but I will never eat here again. 35.00 plus tip on takeout in the trash.

林林

The Chinese restaurant is not fresh and dirty. Be careful not to eat poisoned food in this restaurant. It's best not to eat the fried food. The oil is black and black! Carefully carcinogenic? This restaurant for decades! Advise everyone to be careful not to go to prevent the disease! There are also front desk attendants who are in their 50s. Service is poor. The dish is warm and not hot! Very poor service! Special characters tell everyone. Attention please

Scott Shaw

We have never been more disappointed. We've gone to Uncle Kwoks for years but haven't ordered from them recently. Spent 70+ bucks for tonight's dinner and it all just went into the garbage can!!!! Horrible doesn't even describe it. The Pork Fried Rice had no flavor and doesn't even look like it hit a wok! The Egg Rolls were mostly cabbage, greasy and flavorless as well. The Pot stickers we tough and greasy. The Hong Kong noodle dish was just downright disgusting! Tough, chewy mushrooms, shrimp that hadn't been deveined, over cooked pork "spareribs", under cooked pasty beef in the Beef and Broccoli and an underlying nasty flavor. All in all it was greasy, tasteless, slimy, tough, under cooked and completely disappointing. Basically, we just threw $70.00 in the trash and ordered from Golden China in Watsonville. Uncle Kwoks........you're not what you used to be and lost our business.