Hunan Home's Restaurant

Please note Hunan Home's Express is open in Mtn View
Offering box menu mainly for lunch but classic menu items too.
https://www.yelp.com/biz/hunan-homes-express-mountain-view

I'll certainly miss this place. Great food, wonderful staff. Thank you for the memories!

Everything here is sooo tasty. If your looking for a good Chinese place, go here!

What I also like is that it's right next to WF for groceries after.

The owners are always so welcoming and always acknowledge you when you come in and leave.

On the plus side, sometimes little extras are brought out like sweet dessert soup, sesame ball, some appies on the house.

Our favs:
the crispy gravy noodle with meat/seafood and veggies. Delicious!!

Shrimp and walnut- perfection in their sauce.

I like Do Miew (sp?) with garlic.

Can't forget the Xioa Long Bao!! Anyday of the week.

It has never failed me once when I've gone. Great for large parties too. The service is on par.

Decided delivery Chinese was not a good idea. My thinking is, a quality Chinese resto should get enough business from clientele and not resort to extra revenue from delivery.

Very up with the technology, it was easy to locate the menu items on their website, but I should have gone only with the Chef's selection. This would have catapulted HH to four star status.

The regular menu is a bit greasy and gelatinous for my taste, I asked for low salt/oil.

LOVED:
-Tai Chin Crab in Claypot, yum-o
-Pea Sprouts w/Garlic
-Clam and Ginger Soup, nice broth
-Chicken chow mein, very good noodles, nice and chewy.

Good:
-Mu shu Chicken
-Spiced Chicken Salad, liked the shredded breast meat and seasoning
-Wonton soup very clean flavor, no MSG evident

Yuck:
-Pea sprouts and Chicken, oily and overly salted.
-Garlic Beef, it's fried and quite disgusting.
-Skip the FREE tapioca dessert, totally burnt tasting and it's FAKE taro.

Phone service: GREAT. Polite and super easy to converse w/in English.

Pickup: Remember to ask for utensils, napkins, soy sauce and chili sauce.

Parking lot: Full of minivans and SUVs, definitely a hotbed for families.

Yay! They have brown rice! Charge for all rice. BR is $1.50/pp. I was a tad bitter about the charge, most Chinese restos will comp the rice when you're spending $100+.

We went there for lunch on the recommendation of a co-worker. Hunan Home's restaurant is located on El Camino near San Antonio road, on the hill side, close to the famous Chef Chu's restaurant. Unlike Chef Chu's, Hunan Home's restaurant has plenty of available parking and no waiting.

The interior is rather plain looking, and not at all elegant. However the food is very good for Chinese food. In fact many of my Chinese American co-workers prefer it to Chef Chu's.

We ordered from the lunch specials, which come with salad and soup on the side.

The hot and sour soup was full of vegetables and bamboo, thick, and hearty, with enough
vinegar. I actually prefer the soup with bits of pork, but it was fine as is.

The Chinese chicken salad was very unusual in that it did not have much lettuce, but rather more green vegetables, with bits of chicken. Not in the same ball park as Chef Chu's here.

The beef chow fun was a huge dish with thick noodles and good size slabs of tender beef. The high quality of beef is a good indication of a good restaurant

The beef broccoli also had lots of tender beef, with well cooked yet not mushy with a very
green color. They did not overcook the broccoli, as it was still firm and crunchy.

The spicy chicken came with orange peeled: fried, breaded chicken morsels, with orange
flavor. It was a little too spicy and greasy for me. One of my co workers gets this dish to go about twice a week.

We will be back for another lunch here, as it has good value.

I would not go out of my way to eat at Hunan Home's restaurant, as there are plenty of just as good Chinese restaurants in my home town of Sunnyvale, including Tao Tao and Ginger Cafe. And in Palo Alto I prefer Mings's, and in Menlo Park Su Hong's.

There's nothing like a home-cooked meal.

Hunan Home's isn't exactly home-cooked food, but it's pretty darn close. And the food isn't heavy on salt or oil, so you don't have to feel like a *complete* glutton after stuffing your face.

Start off with the soy milk. I don't usually care for soy milk, but theirs is sweet and absolutely delicious.

Then, carbs. Doesn't matter what you get; they're all tasty, even the "plain" shrimp fried rice. And the crispy noodles were indeed very crispy and delicious.

The zhajiangmian was a good entree - a tasty mix of veggie and meat in soybean paste.

But my favorite item was what I can only describe as a Chinese donut, which was so fluffy and sweet. Served optionally with a bit of condensed milk, it's a heavenly minute on the lips and a lifetime on the hips. Well, all things in moderation!

Chinese lunch my parents like. All ingredients were fresh, but the experience you have will depend on the dish you order. Some dishes are great and some are just so-so. 3.75 stars due to the great ones.

Cost to worth it ratio: 2.6 (lunches start at 7.95 and go up to 9.50--bit higher than usual and definitely high on the seafood side)

Highlights:
- Good mix of Americanized dishes like broccoli beef and kung pao along with more authentic ones like ma po tofu and squid.
- Black bean fish: the most stand-out dish we've gotten. Moist, fresh pieces of fish doused in a black bean sauce with some sliced jalapeno for an extra kick. Sometimes you see dry or fishy tasting fish but here it's done perfectly. Also I dug that it was accompanied not only with onions but a whole load of asparagus instead of just green pepper.
- Beef with asparagus: super duper tender meat pieces--delightful to eat. Sauce was just enough and asparagus was crisp. My second favorite.
- Lunch specials: includes more than your standard choices. Egg roll (mongo-sized) or chicken salad; soup: hot and sour, won ton, or corn; entree and dessert: mango pudding, ice cream or fruit (sweet slices of oranges)

Midlights:
- Kung Pao shrimp: shrimp were generous sizes and cooked just right, but the sauce left some to be desired. It had too much of a ketchupy/tomatoy tangy taste so it wasn't to my liking. More slanted in the sweet and sour direction than tradtional spicy kung pao. Mom claims they have changed their recipe cause she used to like the kung pao here the best.

Lowlights:
- Chinese chicken salad: bland, boring, very strong on the vinegar

Still like this place due to the quality of the ingredients and excellent dishes were way above what you can get at other locations. We'll be back for the beef and fish and probably try another shrimp dish.

This is a lovely and always dependable local restaurant. For us, its about 100 times better then Chef Chu. I guess everyplace has it's following.
Everything tastes very fresh. We seem always get the Hot & Sour soup, Fijian Fried Rice and Orange Beef. They have a huge selection of food and everything we have tried has been delicious. After a few years here, we settled into our favorite dishes.
The Fijian rice is packed with seafood in a tasty thick sauce. To be honest, I'd like a dish of it for myself...The beef has a sweet spicy glaze and a yummy sticky crispiness.
Everyone is very friendly and gracious. Easy to find and plenty of parking. Very clean dining areas. If you have a large group, you get the huge round table in elevated area. Very fun.
Highly recommend.

I was pleasantly surprised by HH's food. I do think their name is odd because it seems that it would be a name for a real estate office and not a restaurant.

My co-workers and I have come here for lunch twice. Their lunch menu is really affordable, ranging from $7.95 to $10. You get a choice of an appetizer, soup, entree, and dessert. Those 2 times, I have ordered the Hunan Homes chicken which has a spicy flavor. Now, for those who know me, I am a spice wimp but I actually handled it well. I did, however, feel my scalp getting sweaty and a bead of sweat trickled down the side of my face the last time I was there. The lunch is enough food (at least for me) to stretch it out for leftovers.

Service is cool but it seems to depend on who you get. Food comes out super fast so if you've got limited time for lunch, come here.

With a limited amount of family-owned restaurants along El Camino Real side of Los Altos, I needed to come here for lunch. This restaurant is located across the street from the San Antonio Shopping Center. The setup for the restaurant is good enough to attract Matt G's appetite.

I arrived nearly close to two o'clock and I was seated right away. I ordered one of the lunch special: Mongolian Chicken. For $7.95, I get a choice egg roll (which I got) or Chicken Salad as an appetizer, a choice of soup, which I got Won Ton Soup, Steamed Rice and dessert. My Hunan-style Mongolian Chicken plate, which comprised of bits of Chicken, sliced Onions, bell peppers and red-hot chili pepper was very spicy and tasty. My dessert was a small bowl of Mango Pudding, which was good as well, despite being a little bit small.

I also got a fresh brewed hot-tea with my hefty meal. Oh yeah, my meal was very filling and satisfying with friendly service from the associates. I charged my meal, in which they accept. I had a solid Hunan meal and whenever I needed to come back to Los Altos, this Hunan place is definitely worth coming again.