Hunan House is the Chinese food I grew up with and therefore the standard that I measure all others. Only one or two come to mind out of dozens that can compare to Hunan House. The food is carefully prepared and quite tasty. Their General Tao's and Orange Chicken are perfectly breaded and fried and the sauce is excellent. Ask for it spicy if you like it that way. Don't pass up the Wor Won Ton soup or Broccoli dishes, they are always fresh and delicious.
The Mongolian BBQ is great too. Fresh ingredients and lots of sauces to go along with them. I like to make a veggie and beef loaded sweet and spicy dish, but many combinations are possible including lamb! One criticism is that they charge a lot for the one time serving for lunch compared to the 'all you can eat' option for dinner, but besides that, it always ends up tasting spectacular.
The staff is excellent, doing everything they can to take good care of their customers while still giving you time to relax and enjoy your meal without having to answer a question about the food through a full mouth, something that bothers me at other restaurants.
Try Hunan House for a nice quick lunch, or a tasty dinner, you'll be quite satisfied!
Love, love, LOVE this place!!!
When I have my wedding, this is for sure one of the places that will be feeding my wedding guests/party!
Every time I come home, I always make sure to stop and grab a bite to eat from here! I love to eat: shrimp tofu (which is not on their menu it's speacially made for our family & those that know us), kung pao squid, sword fish, hunan crispy chicken, war wonton soup, steam rice, jameson on the rocks, house chow mein, the delicious food is endless and I can for sure keep on going!
The place is fabuous, the staff is very friendly and the atmosphere is home-like. This is one of the four restaurants in the Sac-area and thus far my favorite!!!!!
I totally recommend you trying out this place and hey, maybe I'll run into you! :)
Darn good! Â Giving it 4 stars as many Chinese 4-5 star places suck.
No slimey Egg Flower soup, no rancid garlic, crispy fresh salad, and lots of cashews in the chicky dish made my quick lunch damn great to return to.
The food which is the essence of dining out was pretty darn good! Â Surprise as much better than the reviews. Â I really liked it and sort of snobby picky eater and gourmet.
Service was ok, prompt and Chinese non smiling no emotion style...
A OK, I shall return for sure!
I absolutely love Hunan House! I've been going here for yearssss. If you are going for mongolian, definitely go during the week for lunch... any other time is over ten bucks and you have to get the all you can eat. But the food and service is great. It's one of the only places in Galt worth going to.
Review Source:I work just a few doors down from Hunan House a few days a week. I tend to eat her more often than anywhere else nearby. They make anything you want, any way you really want it. The staff is very friendly and attentive to all their customers.
But obviously, above customer service, the food quality must be great as well, and it IS. I'm a fan of spicy foods(i'm indian i can't help it), and these guys know just how to prepare my food. I can add the phrase "indian style" to any order and it will be amazing each time. There is an extra charge for that, but it is well worth it.
They are very fast with their to-go orders. I always call in just from a few doors down, and I can hang up the phone and walk out in 5 minutes, and my food is almost always ready.
The Mongolian BBQ option is amazing as well, but in my opinion, it is slightly overpriced. I love the fact that they have lamb for the Mongo BBQ, but there is a secret menu option if you didn't already know. LAMB!!!!! dry or in sauce, either way, you just can't lose.
Check it out guys, I love this place. I actually just ordered a veggie fried rice just 2 minutes before writing this review, and I'm about to go pick it up! :)
I hope more people come out to Galt and give these guys a try. It'll be worth your travel time.
The chinese food is very very greasy and will more than likely leave you with a stomach ache :( They are owned by the same people that own Shang Ri La in Lodi, Ca and offer the same sushi rolls. Needless to say the rolls are $14.95 and packed w/ rice and cream cheese. Nothing spectacular and left my mom and I running for the bathroom :(
BEWARE!
Ugh...
Really?....
They get one star for cold Sapporo...
Sushi?... I've always wanted to try sushi with rice made from a Chinese restaurant...Not sure why I did after eating here...
The booths looked like they were just found at the local restaurant Pick-N-Pull...
Seriously it's time to go...
I am sorry to report that this place has really gone down hill. I used to love to come here for an inexpensive but tasty lunch or supper with friends. The food was hot and fresh and fried items were light and crisp. Not any more. Last few times  the food tasted of soap, fried items were sodden with stale grease and overcooked. I am sad to see the  decrease in quality as decent eats in Galt are few and far between. This seems to be a family run business, so maybe someone can put a bug in their ear that their reputation is circling the drain.
Review Source:it's like a home cooked meal
i've been going to this place for years. i grew up in this small town and like the title says it's like a home cooked meal.
when visiting home for dinner, coming straight from the bay after work, sometime this is where we meet up. the staff are just like and extended family. it's more than just small talk, if you take the time, you can really get to know them.
they know it's us when we call ahead and they get our usual orders started.
favorites and i hope you like them too: shrimp tofu (get the tofu fried it's better), crispy chicken (the sauce is awesome, take some home with you) and my all time favorite, KUNG PAO Squid!
until next time,
cheers
I love this restaurant in Galt, CA. Â The garlic eggplant is wonderful (there is choice of having it deep fried or pan fried.... the deep fried tastes the best) and the vegetable egg foo young is awesome. Â The vegetable fried rice and vegetable chow mein are also good. Â The moo shoo is also good. Â This was my favorite restaurant before moving elsewhere, but I visit every once in awhile. Â Always order from the menu; never go through the buffet. Â The menu is heaven (made to order). Â The buffet is hell (cold food sitting around). Â I wish they would just get rid of the buffet because it gives them a bad image. Â Just stick with the menu and you'll love this restaurant.
Review Source:this place is ok, not really anything special. the Mongolian barbecue is what i like to go there for. i like the orange chicken, and theyre chow mein is ok, all of their entrées are a little bland. im not a big fan of chinese so im a little bias, but ive had good chinese before and this place doesnt cut it.
Review Source:Was introduced to this place when I worked in Galt. Awesome service. Always wonderful wait staff. The food is great, and served very quickly. I've not had their Mongolian BBQ yet, but everything we've had there was hot, delicious, and served quickly. And BOY do they know how to make a drink at the bar. Â Finally a restaurant bar that puts alcohol in their drinks! Â I always bring my out of town visitors for dinner.
Review Source:When in the Galt area this is the best. Very well prepared and flavorful.
My particular fav is the hot and sour soup. All of the entrees are good and we eat there at least twice a month. It has the only civililzed full service bar in town and the wait staff is always helpful. Lots of choices on the menu and you can substitute within reason.
They also have a mongolian bar b que that lots of people seem to like.
HUNAN HOUSE, Bar and Grill, or so says the door. I've been in it once before when a friend drove up from LA and he wanted a drink. Tonight I was in a hurry for dinner and had to do some shopping, so I stopped by. My mistake.
I needed take out and ordered three items, well, actually four, you'll see. I ordered Hunan Tofu, Â "Snow Peas w/Mixed mushroom & water chestnut" and Eggplant in hot garlic sauce. I was told that it would take 20 minutes because they were cleaning the kitchen. So I was back in 20 minutes. Waiting for me was a bag and away I went. The car smelled great and I was hungrily hopeful. Â
The Good
The Hunan Tofu was about as good as it gets, sad to say. The tofu was fried a little too long and cut a little too thin, so it was kinda tough and chewy, but at least it wasn't soured. The sauce was supposed to be "hot & spicy," and there was a note of red pepper in the sauce. The two token chilies thrown in were just for color - they were as red as could be and never touched the oil to flavor it. (If you don't know what this means, look into Chinese cooking techniques. Whole chilies are added to the hot oil in a wok to add the spice to the oil and the chilies darken as the oil is flavored.) There were a few carrots, again for color and not cut to the right size for this dish, one was huge. Also featured were overcooked mushy green onions. I rate this entree as "edible" and it is the reason for the one star.
The Bad
"Snow Peas w/Mixed mushroom & water chestnut" sounds like there should be a mix of mushrooms, right? Don't be silly! This concoction masquerading as food contained only one kind of mushroom, the tasteless canned straw mushroom. When I say "tasteless" I err; the mushrooms were not rinsed so they had the canning liquid flavor. Yuk. So did the water chestnuts, which I love after they're drained, rinsed and cooked in a nice sauce. But alas, the sauce was some insipid white stuff with a little garlic that failed to flavor. And the snow peas? They had to be frozen. No way could you get fresh snow peas to all be uniformly limp and boasting of that color created when green veggies do time in the Arctic. This stuff was not edible.
The Ugly
Eggplant in hot garlic sauce turned out to be unidentifiable. The eggplant was battered and at first I thought I got a wrong order. Nope. The tiny bits of eggplant were buried in a thick batter that totally disguised them. Yes, I've had battered eggplant before, and even enjoyed it, but this was more batter than veggie, which overwhelmed the wimpy morsels inside. Calling it a mushy, gooey gelatinous mess would be kindly accurate. And if the batter didn't bury them, the sauce did. Yes, there was some minced garlic in there, but not as much as in the snow pea disaster. And for a dish that is noted as "hot & spicy" it could have been fed to Nordic neonates. Instead, the sauce was heavily vinegary. Just weird. Add to that the same overcooked green onions and you've got one ugly dish.
The other item I got was rice - I know, you're thinking "rice comes with Chinese food." Â Not in Hunan House land. With the "Chef's Specialities" (yep, that's the spelling from the "Take Out Menu") rice is served. All the other items are a la carte. I didn't know that, but without it I would have starved. So, I was charged for the rice.
Thrown into the bag gratis was some fake soy sauce - that hydrolyzed stuff that should be illegal. Lastly, the fortune cookie was stale. And who wants a stale fortune?
This is my third mongolian BBQ restaurant this week....you would think I'm writing this from the ER due to sodium overload, but no. Â I'm just letting you, my fellow Yelp readers, know the painstaking process I go through so you can enjoy a full and robust Mongolian BBQ list.
Okay, so this is a Chinese restaurant first, Mongo BBQ second. Â I probably should have stuck with the Chinese lunch plates. Â The Mongo BBQ was pretty strange. Â The meats were stuck to the plastic bins - kinda tells you how long those pieces have been in there. Â The sauces were really strong - kind of like watered down hoisin sauce. Â When I got handed back my cooked bowl, it was like he handed me a bowl of meat soup. Â Yes, I know I put a lot of sauce in my bowls, but they usually run off or get absorbed on the grill. Â This was kind of gross, and since it was so strong, I could only eat a few bites.
For $6.50, you get one bowl, a cup of rice (white or fried....I like the option), egg flower soup that tasted way gingery, and an egg roll that had a strong taste of curry powder! Â Now that I read Tarak P.'s remark on "Indian Chinese fusion" it makes more sense.
I say one star for their Mongolian BBQ and its side orders.....but judging by the full house (not one Asian soul, but it's Galt, so I'll cut them a break) I assume the Chinese food is better so I give them an extra star just in case.
This is absolutely one of the worst Chinese restaurants I've ever been.  It's not the cleanest place, the tables look hella old.  The batter in the walnut shrimp and peking spareribs was rock hard.  Many pieces of the spareribs was just a piece of  breaded gristle and there was a couple pieces of fried bone.  Come on now...I can't believe they did that.  The wonton soup was a msg bomb with only 6 wontons.  There was nothing decent there.  The waiter never came around and he is lucky to even get tipped.  I don't know how anyone can give them 4 stars.  I would give them a 1/2 star if there was an option.  The sad thing is, they have regulars..they need to have their tongues checked.  This place sucks.
Review Source:This is my favorite chinese food IN THE WORLD. It is worth the drive from Sacramento or Stockton.
Their mongolian barbeque can't be beat either.
The food here is better than other Chinese places because they cook everything to perfection. Nothing comes out too mushy, which I believe is the number one problem with many other Chinese restaurants. The texture of the meat is always perfect too (if you know what I mean!) But I usually never order chicken, so I can't vouch for it.
My favorite thing here is the Kung Pao Squid. I am considering driving there now for it. Mmm! If you love calamari, you'll love me for telling you about this awesome (dry) dish. Ooh, it's that good.
I've never had any better Chinese anywhere. And I gets around! Frequenting this place is the thing I miss most about living in Galt. The Hunan House, Mom, and Dad. (BTW, right next door is Wholey Ravioli, and they have the best greens and beans [or minestra] in the world.)
And you know every time I go to see Mom and Pop they feel the pressure to take me here. I love me some Hunan House! Their take out lasts all the way to Sacramento.
I'm not familiar with this town, but I was around the area, and someone who lives here says that this is one of the better Chinese restaurants. They also have a Mongolian BBQ, but I didn't get to try that this time.
I might be spoiled since I live in San Jose, where there are Chinese restaurants almost everywhere, and I have to say that this restaurant can't be compared to Chinese food that are available in the Bay Area, and there are a lot of variety to choose from. However, I did think that Hunan House does pretty decent food. The portions are pretty big, and we have a lot of leftovers.
Although I wished some of their spicy food would be a bit spicier, then it'd be even better!
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