Impression of Lanzhou - Concord (CA)

5 /5 Tilia R: The handmade noodles were great! The big plate chicken is my favorite. Very big portion with reasonable price. Nice waitress and good service as well. I will definitely come back again.

5 /5 Ton T: Lanzhou is an ancient, desert city on the old Silk Road so its culinary heritage is as wide as it is deep. While I’ve not been there I would like to think the food here is pretty authentic Gansu province cuisine. It’s always a good sign when a restaurant is popular, but it’s a better sign when an Asian restaurant is full of Asian patrons. Everything we had here was good. The chili crunch oil condiment (which is mild and has smoky, earthy flavor) made everything even better. Guaranteed I’m going back.

3 /5 Yihao Xie: I’m a native of Lanzhou so I was excited to see this restaurant open in Berkeley. We visited on a Thursday night at 7pm and it took around 25 minutes for a table to become available. We ordered two bowls of Lanzhou Beef Noodles (one with the regular thin noodles, one with the thick round noodles), a roujiamo, and a celery and bean curd salad. The salad came out first. It was mostly bean curd and not much celery. It tasted mostly of sesame oil and some garlic. The noodles were hand pulled in the restaurant and you could see the chefs working the dough and making each bowl fresh. They the right texture and are the right thickness - like you’d get in Lanzhou. But the soup was lacking depth of flavor. It didn’t taste like a beef bone broth with Chinese spices simmering for many hours. It was rather bland. The chili oil was also not super fragrant, and the radish slices were too raw/not pre boiled. The roujiamo was okay. I’m not a fan of green pepper chunks and the slightly sweet braise that they cook the pork in, but that’s a personal preference. Service was efficient and friendly, if not minimal because the restaurant was super busy. And that’s what I suspect causes the bland soup — too many customers and they had to keep topping up the beef broth with water, thereby diluting the flavor. I’d be curios to see how it tastes earlier in the day when the soup was freshly made.

5 /5 Alex Hardt: The food is perfectly seasoned. Its fresh. Its very tasty. The sauce is light. Excellent place to eat

5 /5 Lizbeth Agurto Giraldo: Since we arrived they treated us very well, there were plenty of people, the music was soft and we could talk together while enjoying the delicious food we ordered, I recommend this restaurant if you want to get out of the ordinary this is a great option, I recommend the pork and prawns xiao long bao, pork steamed buns, Lanzhou beef noodle soup and the combination fries rice!! it waa so good!!