Salt and pepper ribs are BOMB!!!! Hot, crispy and fresh and always seasoned perfectly.... and the portions are huge... if you don't try anything else try these!!

Parking can be tough but it's a small sacrifice for the best dry fried ribs in Oakland. The prices, portions and quality of food earned a 5 star takeout restaurant from me. They only have a few tables and it's cold inside during the winter so have the mindset of takeout before coming here.

I have no clue why people like this place. We ordered delivery from here yesterday 3/28/19. Here's what we got: Dry fried ribs: these most definitely were not pork ribs. They were fried little pieces of what appeared to be neck bones maybe. Lots of tiny little bones and too much gristle. The flavor wasn't even good to be honest. Lots of MSG that was clearly visible on the meat. Don't get me wrong, I like MSG and believe it's a good flavor enhancer, but this was just too much. I ate a couple pieces and gave the rest to the dog. Salt & Pepper Fish: GROSS! It's not called 5-spice fish so WHY ON EARTH would you sprinkle it with Chinese 5-spice powder??? Unless this was a wrong order, we were very disappointed because it tasted NOTHING like salt and pepper fish. All 5-spice!!! Also the batter was very thick and heavy and the fish was cold. Lin Jia and Little Shin Shin have much better salt and pepper fish! Hot & Sour soup: not hard to mess this up right? Well, it was okay at first taste, but then this bitter off flavor, aftertaste hits your mouth after a few seconds. Not what I'm used to from other Chinese restaurants. Shrimp fried rice: Again there was an off flavor that I can't quite put my finger on, but this was by far the worst fried rice I've ever had. It was super dark brown and didn't have that nice wok-fired flavor to it. Another cold dish that seemed it had been sitting around for awhile. Stir fried garlic eggplant: easily the best thing we ordered. Tasted fine but again temperature was an issue (barely warm). Overall, very bad experience. Will not be ordering from here again. And for anyone who actually likes this place, may I please suggest that you dine at some other Chinese restaurants to compare. This is not quality food. Sorry. Little Shin Shin on Piedmont is my favorite spot, consistently great food, quick service for dining in or take out, and very reasonably priced.

Fresh and let be clear please make me a fresh batch of dry fried ribs is a go!!!!! Their shrimp fried rice and prawns fried rice is recommended as well. I have been coming to China Pack Kitchen for over 20 years. I could definitely tell when the cooks and owners changed but these 3 items I have continued to buy.

Good Chinese Food in the Heart of East Oakland, the dried fried ribs are fantastic. Went there last week, and had the lunch special with a nice bed of Rice and Sweet and Sour Chicken. It was outstanding, and no wonder this place has been serving the Oakland area since 1972.

Best dry fried ribs ever! Every time I come to the bay area I have to come here it's a must stop before I go over the bay bridge I love pretty much all the food that I've gotten here they have green beans that are to die for the orange chicken but I always get a box of dry fried ribs and a box of salt and pepper pork before I hit San Francisco come and get a guys

One of the best fried rice in the bay! I love fried rice and have been looking for alternative place, since my favorite Chinese restaurant (On Luck) closed down.

China Pack Kitchen is a typical Americanized Chinese eatery. specialty is take out and delivery. only 3 tables for sit-in. eats: lunch special (5.5) brocculli beef with egg fried rice -fried rice inedible to saltiness ala excess soy sauce -brocculi crowns tender, not much, beef ok, not many -cheaper price = smaller portions 2.5 stars take outs: -"best of" awards for dry fried ribs posted on wall -food made to order in 7 minutes. -prices cheap, smaller portions? -no repeat.

I've been coming here since I moved to the neighborhood and it has changed over the years. The food is still good but the portions have gotten smaller and the salt and pepper ribs are no longer meaty...its essentially fried bones. I feel like they are cutting corners now to save money and the food is starting to suffer.

Really quick and delicious my go to when surprised guests come..love the won ton soup..

Best Chinese food in the town. Get some or miss out. PERIOD!! Lol I always eat and forget to take pics... but next time...

You want Dry Fried Ribs? You want Salt and Pepper Chicken Wings? YOU WANT CHINA PACK KITCHEN! #OnMamaz #Smackin #Yeee

" DO NOT ORDER THE DRIED FRIED RIBS " ( please read ) Okay folks, " I have been a regular at this joint for a long time. I only order the dried fried ribs from this place. Last week after picking up my order and trying to enjoy my dinner, I noticed a different meat flavor, and these big pieces of bone Im having a hard time eating my dried fried ribs because of all the bones. Now at first I didn't trip but then there were all these weird looking left over bones. So now I take a closer look at the bone shapes because they are not the typical small round end shaped bones with a bit of grizzle attached. What I was finding were these freaking PORK NECK BONES. So I dumped out the remaining pieces and I found some pieces that had no meat on them, they were just dry fried neck bones. Im done with this place don't waste your time or money. P.S. No wonder there is never a line a this place anymore. If I wanted fried neck bones, I would have placed my order at the jade palace.

Great prices for a good amount of food. I think they're pretty good. The appearance isn't top notch but it's a take-out place in Oakland. & a few blocks away from my apt so it's walking distance. I'm recently transitioning from omnivore to vegetarian.. but I ordered veggie fried rice (loved it), and mixed veggies (loved it) & also chicken with string beans.. but the chicken tasted kinda funny.. maybe it's because I don't like meat anymore.. Not sure.. but it's definitely worth a try if you're a local!

Best dry fried ribs.... And they make my fried rice exactly how i like it..Been going her since i was in elementary school

I like this Chinese restaurant. The food is pretty decent and I really like the green beans with beef. It's a great little hole in the wall but a little pricey if you want delivery because you have to order a minimum of $30.00 plus a tip and tax can run you like $45.00. I recommend picking the food up in person because the food is pretty decent.

Oof. The egg foo yung was strange and therefore unappetizing. The other dishes we ordered were greasy and bland. I don't think I'll bother again.

10/10 would recommend. Great "hole in the wall" restaurant, I am a regular customer here. Anytime im in the mood for Chinese, this is my first choice. Phenomenal orange chicken and chow mein.

Hrmph. I was feeling lazy yesterday and decided to order takeout for dinner. For some reason, I'm always wary about ordering delivery Chinese.... I don't know why. I just feel like it's never that good. China Pack had good reviews, so I decided to take my chances. I don't really eat meat these days, so I ordered egg rolls, green beans, vegetable chow fun, and prawns with lobster sauce (yes I know that's a lot of food, I have housemates and it's a $20 minimum... STOP JUDGING ME) Delivery came on time, and when I opened up my food I realized they had given me the wrong prawn order. Instead of prawns with lobster sauce, I got prawns with chicken in black bean sauce. I called and told them they gave me the wrong item, I had the most difficult and frustrating time just trying to get my money back. The woman on the phone kept saying, "let me check with the cook, I personally checked your order to make sure". Well, you didn't check hard enough, because these two items are completely different from each other and don't look similar at all. She said, "the prawns with lobster sauce is prawn and egg" and I said, I know that, and I'm telling you that's definitely not what I received-this dish had chicken, prawns, onions, green bell peppers, and black bean sauce. To which she said? "That sounds like the prawns and chicken with black bean sauce." REALLY? I even told her I could take a picture of it and send it to her phone or someone's phone there to prove I wasn't lying, to which she refused because "we don't have internet here" (?!?!) I started to get frustrated and said look, I can't eat this, and I'm not going to pay for something I can't eat, and I don't see why you need to go check with your cook when I'm telling you I definitely got the wrong dish and even offered to send you proof of it. She then said she doesn't make the decisions and said she would talk to the owner and call me back. It took awhile for her to call back so I actually hopped in my car to drive over and drop this off, which defeats the whole purpose of ordering delivery. She finally called back as I was on my way and said oh yeah, we did a mistake (REALLY?!!?!?!), sorry, we'll have grubhub refund your money. She offered a free prawns with lobster sauce for my next delivery, but I definitely won't be ordering from them again. A couple of stars because the rest of the food was decent. Not decent enough for me to give them another try, though.

Pretty decent food and they did delivery fairly quick. I would definitely order from there again.