Oceanic Restaurant

Oceanic Restaurant is a Chinese restaurant in San Mateo, California.

Oceanic Restaurant pairs familiar Chinese takeout favorites with house specialties that invite a closer look. Its San Mateo menu includes orange chicken, kung pao chicken, and Mongolian beef, but we especially like the variety around them. The signature spicy eggplant combines chicken and prawns with basil, peppers, and a hoisin-based sauce, while duck mu-shu offers a different filling for a pancake-wrapped meal. Mango chicken or beef brings fruit and jalapeño into the mix, and pineapple prawns provide another sweet-and-savory direction. Vegetable choices include eggplant in garlic sauce, string beans with tofu, and mushrooms with snow peas. Fried rice, chow fun, garlic noodles, and Hong Kong-style crispy noodles make it easy to complete the order. Oceanic's appeal is a broad Chinese menu with enough distinctive combinations to keep a familiar dinner interesting.