Mahs Kitchen

What can I say other than amazing. Food is so delicious and flavorful. So many choices of chicken, beef, and seafood. You can taste the freshness and all the spices. They have an array of noodles, soups and veggie dishes as well. It is a family style restaurant with huge portions. This means everyone can have a little of everything. Best Chinese food I’ve ever had, hands down. All food is halal and they do not serve alcohol. Anytime I am in California I am thinking of Mah’s!

Very good food, I ordered their lunch special Mongolian beef and it was delicious! They have an open kitchen, you can smell everything while they cook which is awesome plus they serve CocaCola from Mexico which we all know tastes even better because of the real sugar. They have limited seating and parking but it wasn't too busy so our party of 5 for a business lunch was seated right away.

Our family have been long time patrons for YEARS. Even the change of ownership has not changed the great taste and service. We always have to stop for takeout when passing thru the Imperial Valley. Love their food. Great portions for the price.

The best chicken soup and vegetable won ton soup I have ever had!!!! Amazing vegetables Absolutely the only place I come to get my chicken and my vegetable won ton soup. My son raved about the orange chicken and the shrimp chow mein The food is ALWAYS the best when you go and order in person!!! You will have to wait BUT THE WAIT IS SO WORTH IT You also can order by phone .

The food is delicious and the staff Is very polite and friendly

The best Chinese food in the valley. They make your food as you order. Friendly and quick service. I usually order to go. The dining area is not so great but still giving 5 stars for the delicious food. Update: something has happened, won't eat here anymore, was gross, not the same.

This place was one of my favorite places to get a nice and enjoyable lunch or dinner. Unfortunately I moved out of state. So today when I came to visit, I definitely had to come to Mah's Kitchen. Just like old times, the food is delicious with excellent service. Me & my whole family will always come here when we are in town.

I’ve been dining at Mah’s Kitchen in El Centro for over 15 years, and I can’t believe I’ve never left a review until now! This local gem consistently serves excellent NO-MSG Chinese food with warm, friendly service that makes you feel at home. My go-to dish is Mongolian beef—perfectly seasoned and always tender. I also love their chicken fried rice—flavorful, fresh, and never greasy. The portions are generous, and the prices are very reasonable. Whether you’re a local or just passing through Imperial County, I highly recommend stopping by this Mama Park-run restaurant. It’s a true hometown favorite. Thank you, Mah’s Kitchen, Peter, Judith, and Maria for all the delicious meals and years of great service! Warm regards Octavius

Very good deal for very good food. Shrimp Chop Suey was excellent- shrimp cooked to perfect temperature. BBQ pork was very good too. 🙏🏼😉

Vegan friendly upon request. Clean food and not too oily.

The only Chinese restaurant open this December 24th. They saved my dinner plans. Awesome staff. Really good food. Great prices.

Food was delicious and the order was very fast! We ordered for takeaway and I was surprised to how quickly the order was ready! I will definitely be visiting again! Food portion is good too especially for the price

Great food! Tasty! I love this chinese food! I recommend you to come try it out! This is the personal plate D3. Got enough food and enough to share 👍😋

The service was great and super friendly and the food was AMAZING 🤩. Came out hot and fresh and was a LOT for the order.

Best Chinese food in El Centro

Really good food. Price is decent and portions are big.

Octavius Blackwood

I’ve been dining at Mah’s Kitchen in El Centro for over 15 years, and I can’t believe I’ve never left a review until now! This local gem consistently serves excellent NO-MSG Chinese food with warm, friendly service that makes you feel at home. My go-to dish is Mongolian beef—perfectly seasoned and always tender. I also love their chicken fried rice—flavorful, fresh, and never greasy. The portions are generous, and the prices are very reasonable. Whether you’re a local or just passing through Imperial County, I highly recommend stopping by this Mama Park-run restaurant. It’s a true hometown favorite. Thank you, Mah’s Kitchen, Peter, Judith, and Maria for all the delicious meals and years of great service! Warm regards Octavius

Rosalia Larios

Very good deal for very good food. Shrimp Chop Suey was excellent- shrimp cooked to perfect temperature. BBQ pork was very good too. 🙏🏼😉

Julieta Velasquez

Vegan friendly upon request. Clean food and not too oily.

Bridge

Food was delicious and the order was very fast! We ordered for takeaway and I was surprised to how quickly the order was ready! I will definitely be visiting again! Food portion is good too especially for the price

BRENDA ARREOLA

The only Chinese restaurant open this December 24th. They saved my dinner plans. Awesome staff. Really good food. Great prices.

Grecia Olea

Great food! Tasty! I love this chinese food! I recommend you to come try it out! This is the personal plate D3. Got enough food and enough to share 👍😋

Carlos Cintron

The service was great and super friendly and the food was AMAZING 🤩. Came out hot and fresh and was a LOT for the order.

Jorge Briscoe

Best Chinese food in El Centro

The food great,The service is great even the shop smelled good, The seating in the store is so comfortable overall a great place to eat.

Food is amazing staff is awesome highly recommend u can dine in or order for take out.

Hello everyone…Leaving this post for you guys to come check out this restaurant. I was looking for a good Chinese restaurant to eat & found the right place! There is variety of food to choose from; all was delicious, reasonable prices, also the owners & staff is very welcoming. Family owned local business out in El Centro, Ca. Come out & support! Waitress is super friendly & is on top of the clients requests. Thank you so much for a great 1st visit. We will definitely come back again to try something different next time we are back. Live out in Yuma, Az but wouldn’t mind taking the hour drive just to go eat another delicious plate from your restaurant! Thank you so much !!! Fried rice, orange chicken, chow-mein shrimp, chicken with veggies all delicious 10/10. Can’t wait to try some of your other dishes you offer from the variety of options I saw on your menu. Thanks again 😃

I love the food because it is really good.

Mah’s Kitchen has been a long standing part of El Centro. Food is great, orders are prepared quickly, and most of all your always treated with the upmost courtesy.

Always fast no matter what time you order food they are efficient and friendly they serve large quantities and although they are personal plates it’s enough to feed 4 people with two plates of personal combo for great prices

The food was awesome. Salt and pepper chicken was just like I like. Crispy on the outside and super tender on the inside.

Deyanira Patn

I love the food because it is really good.

James Johnson

The food great,The service is great even the shop smelled good, The seating in the store is so comfortable overall a great place to eat.

Debbie Palmer

Food is amazing staff is awesome highly recommend u can dine in or order for take out.

Jennifer Adams

It’s a wonderful restaurant with a talented chef and amazingly friendly host. I always enjoy either eating in or taking home.

Estella Massey

The food was awesome. Salt and pepper chicken was just like I like. Crispy on the outside and super tender on the inside.

Mike Morales

Mah’s Kitchen has been a long standing part of El Centro. Food is great, orders are prepared quickly, and most of all your always treated with the upmost courtesy.

Guillermo Herrera

Hello everyone…Leaving this post for you guys to come check out this restaurant. I was looking for a good Chinese restaurant to eat & found the right place! There is variety of food to choose from; all was delicious, reasonable prices, also the owners & staff is very welcoming. Family owned local business out in El Centro, Ca. Come out & support! Waitress is super friendly & is on top of the clients requests. Thank you so much for a great 1st visit. We will definitely come back again to try something different next time we are back. Live out in Yuma, Az but wouldn’t mind taking the hour drive just to go eat another delicious plate from your restaurant! Thank you so much !!! Fried rice, orange chicken, chow-mein shrimp, chicken with veggies all delicious 10/10. Can’t wait to try some of your other dishes you offer from the variety of options I saw on your menu. Thanks again 😃

Brandon Romero

Always fast no matter what time you order food they are efficient and friendly they serve large quantities and although they are personal plates it’s enough to feed 4 people with two plates of personal combo for great prices

Mah's kitchen is a great place to eat Chinese Food. If I am correct 🤔. Just stop by💯🥰🤗.

Good food, very large portions, in particular the bbq pork, lomein, wonton soup and Mongolian beef are standouts to me. Unfortunately the fried rice, orange chicken, and salt & pepper fish were bland. The fish in particular were very heavily breaded and very gummy. Service could be better but I forgave it because it wasn't horrible just uncaring and the value proposition is insane. An order for 3 people could easily feed double that amount. Don't let the sketchy appearance of the place put you off. I found the inside to be clean (if a bit dated looking) and the kitchen taken care of.

I've gone for yrs n yrs it more variety prizes are ok approx. $8.00 give or take but food its still good. New chefs. I would go back they service a lot of food. Same odor too give it a 6..on the odor.

I ordered Seafood soup, egg rolls and kung Pao chicken. Made fresh. Kung Pao Chicken was good, the seafood soup was missing vegetables and seasoning, the egg rolls well I wouldn’t order them again.

Jerry

I ordered Seafood soup, egg rolls and kung Pao chicken. Made fresh. Kung Pao Chicken was good, the seafood soup was missing vegetables and seasoning, the egg rolls well I wouldn’t order them again.

Got vegetable chow mien cooked to order (more veggies less noodles). Mah's kitchen has been the corner stone of our take out dining for years. New chairs are comfy.

Bennett Kaye

Got vegetable chow mien cooked to order (more veggies less noodles). Mah's kitchen has been the corner stone of our take out dining for years. New chairs are comfy.

I bought from them twice and so far the food has been VERY bland. I'm not going to come back here anymore

I was a bit disappointed today, I paced an order over the phone. One of them was the Mongolian beef lunch plate. I asked for the meat to be cooked a little crispy. That's just my preference. Its been done before. The lady that helped me said straight out NO, she's said that's not how you eat it...umm ok. I almost laughed but wasn't trying to be rude. I get that that's now how she would traditionally or maybe someone else would eat it but it's a personal preference since it's being cooked fresh anyway. Again I've asked for it like this before and never had someone say NO... I'm laughing now just replaying her fast response. Needless to say I still order two different lunch plates including the Mongolian beef. Its good, a little on the chewy side. But not the best.

This place is small and doesn't offer much of a dinning atmosphere but sometimes these are the best spots for good quality food! Everytime I go I enjoy every bite till the last. You might want to share a plate with someone else because they do serve you a lot of food. The personal plates are reasonably priced starting at $5.99. To top it off, the cooks are out in the open and you can watch them cook your food fresh (my favorite part). The only complaint i have is the females who take your order. They have no personality and come off very rude! I know this writeup wont make a difference there but at least I can vent it out and let the readers know. The owners, who are polite, need to re-train them in customer service or get rid of them. A couple of notes; you pay when you order at the counter, then you proceed by sitting. Also make note that there are no fountain drinks. That means you buy any soda by the can. Iced tea and water is available that are FREE to refill.

Super busy and chaotic, not really any kind of orderly lined formed but the staff was awesome! They were on top of things.. the food was.. disappointing though. Veryyyy bland, everything. I expected more from reading the reviews. When you get takeout they give you a box instead of a bag and it helped make it to the house safely, though!!! That was cool! Also, if you want styrofoam boxes, when ordering takeout, make sure you ask for them.

Overall food looked and tasted delicious. However once I got home with the food and was about to start eating I felt a hole in the plate however the hole was a lot worse. Had to transfer the food to a bowl as quick as possible as it started leaking all over the counter and floor. Once out of the container the extent of the hole was worse as pictured.

Jonathan Solís-Betty

Overall food looked and tasted delicious. However once I got home with the food and was about to start eating I felt a hole in the plate however the hole was a lot worse. Had to transfer the food to a bowl as quick as possible as it started leaking all over the counter and floor. Once out of the container the extent of the hole was worse as pictured.

Do not get the orange chicken to go. It is mostly dough coated skin/nerve(cheap part of chicken). I got orange chicken with BBQ pork. I got 6 scoops of bad chicken and1 scoop of pork. Very bad but almost only asian food choice not sushi

Joaquin Arvizu

Do not get the orange chicken to go. It is mostly dough coated skin/nerve(cheap part of chicken). I got orange chicken with BBQ pork. I got 6 scoops of bad chicken and1 scoop of pork. Very bad but almost only asian food choice not sushi

The food wasn't fresh or good. I'm not a picky eater at all and I've never asked to have the food returned. But I simply couldn't eat the food . I tated the orange chicken and rice and noodles. I wouldn't recommend this place . Not to be rude though. But the food isn't consumable.

menu pricing online is not correct. the women in the front counter was very rude. when i asked for some siracha and lemons they only gave me 1 of each. im not sure how they get by really stiffing people.

Worst experience of so called Chinese food I've ever had I ask for salt and pepper chicken but did not look nor taste like chicken. I also ordered beef fried rice with extra egg and there was barely any beef and almost no egg also what Chinese restaurant doesn't put vegetables in their rice? I wouldn't recommend this place to no one.

Eat at your own RISK!!!! First time ever trying the food from this place and the LAST. As I was going to eat the order of beef and broccoli I found a HAIR & discarded that plate. As I open the chow mein 🍜noodles I found a pice of what seamed to me a STRAIN OF COTTON FIBERS MOP. It blended in with the noodles so well, but I was still able to notice it wasn't food. I called & They did try to explain it could of been FIBERS from the STAINLESS STEEL SCRUBBERS usually used to clean. I did showed what I found in my food, they communicated to each other in their language for a while. I asked for my money back and was reimburse partial back. I'm so DISAPPOINTED and DISGUSTED by my findings.

I went to Mah's Kitchen tonight for the first time in several years. Very disappointed from A to Z. It was an hour before closing and only 1 customer. That should have told me something. The food I was served was old and not even consistently textured. My "pork" fried rice literally had 1 cube of pork in it. The rest was ONLY rice. No other veggies. The flavor was very bland. I got Orange Chicken and Sweet & Sour Pork. I honestly couldn't even tell which was which. They tasted almost identical. The person who took my order seemed like she was having a rough night and not very friendly. With so many other great local restaurants with excellent food and friendly service, I won't be back to this place. Very disappointing.

My wife Worst experience ever she order salt & pepper and it was "NO GOOD" no meat at all and just bread crumbs instead of meat! When complained to the cashier was told to wait but owners never came to apologize or return my money instead gave us the receipt Right away for us to pay and leave. Someone form health department check this site out after I went home my stomach hurted have pictures of food and my testimony willing to file a formal complaint against restaurant.