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February 8, 2012
San Francisco's Top 10 Dim Sum Restaurants
What better way to spend a weekend morning than over dim sum? Waitresses keep offering you tidbits of pork and shrimp, your endless pot of tea gets refilled without asking if you leave the lid up (there's a veteran tip), and at almost every place on this list, six people can eat until you're bore ... More >>
Blogs
October 14, 2011
New Asia Restaurant Is Loud, Bright, and Very Gold
Jonathan KauffmanNew Asia Restaurant's taro puffs. Rice Plate Journal is a yearlong project to canvas Chinatown, block by block, discovering the good, the bad, and the hopelessly mediocre. Maximum entrée price: $10."Ng saap sei! Fifty-four!" the cashier called into the microphone, the numbers ... More >>
Blogs
September 22, 2011
"Easy Chinese: San Francisco" Host Loves Mission Pie
The Cooking ChannelChing-He HuangOn Saturday, the Cooking Channel launches "Easy Chinese: San Francisco," a full season of 14 30-minute episodes showing Taiwanese-born Ching-He Huang cooking her recipes in our town. I spoke with Ching on the phone earlier this week from her home in London ab ... More >>
Blogs
September 19, 2011
How Do You Order Dim Sum? Early and Assertively
MissMeng/FlickrIn a city whose dim sum restaurants and brunch spots are equally slammed on Sunday mornings, most San Franciscans like to claim inside knowledge of where to find the best steamed rice noodles and har gow. This week on Eatocracy, New York restaurateur Ed Schoenfeld, trained in both ... More >>
Blogs
August 11, 2011
Crude Drugs Chicken Feet: Best Chicken Feet Ever?
Photos by W. Blake Gray"Crude Drugs Chicken Feet"We admit that we ordered Crude Drugs Chicken Feet as a joke. Was the joke on us? It turned out to be the best chicken feet we've ever had. And it made Golden Gate Dim Sum Seafood Restaurant feel like quite the find. We ran "best dim sum ... More >>
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August 8, 2011
We Ordered "Crude Drugs Chicken Feet"
W. Blake GrayWe saw this menu and of course we had to order No. 46. We think drugs are simply too refined these days. Who needs heroin, for example, when you can have opium? So how was the dish? We had an extreme reaction. We'll tell all in the next installment of our ongoing series of revie ... More >>
Blogs
July 29, 2011
Dim Sum Trounces Grilled Cheese in Our Poll
The winner ChefdruckThe loser The Grilled Cheese Guy started it. Last weekend, when we passed him on our way back from the gym, he asked if we wanted a grilled cheese, but we said we were off to review a dim sum restaurant. He whined about it on Twitter, saying he'd choose grille ... More >>
Blogs
July 25, 2011
Hing Lung: If the Congee's Not Doing It for You, the Noodles Might
W. Blake GrayChow mein from Chinatown's congee king, Hing Lung.Rice Plate Journal is a yearlong project to canvas Chinatown, block by block, discovering the good, the bad, and the hopelessly mediocre. Maximum entrée price: $10. The loud static of Hing Lung's perennial rush hour -- spoons cl ... More >>
Blogs
July 25, 2011
Dim Sum Vs. Grilled Cheese: Vote for Your Favorite
Over the weekend we mildly pissed off the Grilled Cheez Guy by forgoing his product to go review a dim sum restaurant. He called us out on Twitter, but we are not ashamed to say that, while we like grilled cheese, we prefer dim sum by a banquet-sized margin. But others started weighing in, includin ... More >>
Dining
May 18, 2011
Dong Bei Mama: Chinese Charcuterie and a Trip Through Manchuria
Over the weekend we mildly pissed off the Grilled Cheez Guy by forgoing his product to go review a dim sum restaurant. He called us out on Twitter, but we are not ashamed to say that, while we like grilled cheese, we prefer dim sum by a banquet-sized margin. But others started weighing in, includin ... More >>
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January 26, 2011
Get Your Ass to San Mateo for: Chuka Ryori Cuisine at Yu-Raku
Luis ChongYu-Raku is the Bay Area's second eatery specializing in Chuka Ryori, Japanese-style Chinese food.A new series that urges SFoodie readers to get their butts out of the Mission. For a couple hours anyway. It may sound strange, but Japanese-style Chinese food (known as "Chuka Ryori") ... More >>
Dining
January 5, 2011
Fresh Eats
Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news
Blogs
December 9, 2010
Critic's Notes: Four Restaurants I Decided Not to Review
Vivian H./YelpSalt and pepper prawns at Brother Seafood Restaurant.The past year has seen so many high-profile, creative restaurants open that it's been a great time to be a restaurant critic in San Francisco. But there's as much sifting to do as writing. Over the past few months, I've eaten my w ... More >>
Dining
September 8, 2010
Mission Chinese Food offers a Matrix mind-twister of a meal
Vivian H./YelpSalt and pepper prawns at Brother Seafood Restaurant.The past year has seen so many high-profile, creative restaurants open that it's been a great time to be a restaurant critic in San Francisco. But there's as much sifting to do as writing. Over the past few months, I've eaten my w ... More >>
Blogs
September 8, 2010
Jonathan Kauffman Burns for Mission Chinese Food's Danny Bowien
At Mission Chinese Food, Danny Bowien cooks up a short list of searing tributes to his favorite Chinese dishes.Maybe Danny Bowien couldn't thrive anywhere else but in San Francisco. Maybe the same is true of Mission Chinese Food, the Chinese-restaurant-in-a-Chinese-restaurant Bowien orchestra ... More >>
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September 8, 2010
What the Hell Is Danny Bowien Thinking? A Snapshot
Jesse Friedman/Beer & NoshDanny Bowien.When I called Danny Bowien up last week, trying to find out what the hell he was doing at Mission Chinese Food, my few simple questions turned into an hour-long chat that spiraled from his obsession with Sichuan cuisine to an intriguing offhand commen ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2010
Mission Street Food Guys Set to Launch Mission Chinese Food at Lung Shan
Jesse Friedman/FlickrAnthony Myint.Hold on to your chopsticks, San Francisco: In just about two weeks, the guys who bought you Mission Burger and Mission Street Food will begin to roll out Chinese food. Mission Chinese Food is set to launch July 5 at Lung Shan, long the site of charitable po ... More >>
Blogs
March 24, 2010
Peking Duck Worth Leaving Town For
Please don't call it "quack." The idea of San Franciscans skipping town for the singular purpose of eating Chinese food is a little silly ― like Canadians driving to Phoenix to go skiing. From Shanghai soup dumplings to Islamic hot pots, this city's offerings stretch far beyond the battered ... More >>
Dining
October 14, 2009
Beijing Restaurant, Yao Ming's favorite S.F. spot, offers unusual delights
Please don't call it "quack." The idea of San Franciscans skipping town for the singular purpose of eating Chinese food is a little silly ― like Canadians driving to Phoenix to go skiing. From Shanghai soup dumplings to Islamic hot pots, this city's offerings stretch far beyond the battered ... More >>
Blogs
October 8, 2009
Why You Should Hear Andrew Coe Talk About Bad Chinese Food Tonight at Omnivore Books
Ankou/FlickrChop suey, America's gateway dish.Apparently, we have some New York City bohos to thank (or curse) for the birth of chop suey, the slippery Americanized dish that still shows up at many of the approximately 40,000 Chinese restaurants around the country. Chop suey, a "mixed pieces" ... More >>
Blogs
September 16, 2009
Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends
Our favorite morsel from the food blogs. Hey, over here!: We weren't the only ones to go all WTF after Michael Bauer answered a reader's query to Between Meals about how much to tip on a multi-hundred-dollar bottle of wine. Today Bauer turns to a reader's complaint - a gentle whine, really - ... More >>
Dining
June 17, 2009
Shanghai comes to Chinatown via Bund
Our favorite morsel from the food blogs. Hey, over here!: We weren't the only ones to go all WTF after Michael Bauer answered a reader's query to Between Meals about how much to tip on a multi-hundred-dollar bottle of wine. Today Bauer turns to a reader's complaint - a gentle whine, really - ... More >>
Culture
June 25, 2008
Let the Games Beijing
Spend a day of Olympic proportions beyond the Dragon's Gate.
Dining
March 5, 2008
Chinese Import
The best (and cheapest) Shanghai-style food
Blogs
October 11, 2007
SFoodie: Homemade Wonton Soup
The best (and cheapest) Shanghai-style food
Blogs
October 11, 2007
SFoodie: Homemade Wonton Soup
The best (and cheapest) Shanghai-style food
Dining
April 18, 2007
Palace Feast
Don't miss the suckling pig or the drunken chicken, but skip the dim sum
Dining
March 21, 2007
A weekly listing of new restaurants around town
Don't miss the suckling pig or the drunken chicken, but skip the dim sum
Dining
March 23, 2005
Speak to Me
You don't need to know Chinese to enjoy a tasty chive dumpling
Best of San Francisco
May 19, 2004
Best Fortune Cookie
Japanese Tea Garden
Best of San Francisco
May 19, 2004
Best Dim Sum
Dol Ho
Dining
March 24, 2004
Safe Harbor
At Harbor Village, the Cantonese nights are more exciting than the dim sum days
Dining
January 28, 2004
Hot Stuff
The best Sichuan food in the Bay Area comes from a modest place in Albany
Dining
December 3, 2003
Stuck on You
Roaming the streets of San Francisco in search of the perfect pot sticker
Dining
November 19, 2003
Piece 'a Pizza
The crunchy crust at the venerable Tommaso's still delights us
Best of San Francisco
May 14, 2003
Best Dim Sum (Chinatown)
Pearl City Seafood Restaurant
Best of San Francisco
May 15, 2002
Best Dim Sum
Yank Sing
Dining
October 3, 2001
Royal High
Koi Palace
Dining
August 29, 2001
Dim - Sum
Stop, Hop & Roll
Best of San Francisco
May 23, 2001
Best Comeback We're Praying Will Happen
Tong Palace
Best of San Francisco
May 23, 2001
Best Dim Sum
Oriental Pearl
Dining
January 31, 2001
Sum Kind of Wonderful
Dim Sum venues in Chinatown
Dining
November 22, 2000
Soup's On
Just Won Ton
Dining
September 15, 1999
Just Eat It
Ton Kiang
Dining
February 24, 1999
Eating Big Bird
Ton Kiang
Dining
December 10, 1997
Fading Flower
Ton Kiang
Dining
April 16, 1997
Feet, Fins, and Heads
Ton Kiang
Dining
January 15, 1997
Alice's Restaurant
Hot Chinese on real china
Dining
December 25, 1996
At the Stir-Fry Cafe
Firecracker's Chinese food tastes great and is less oily
Dining
June 7, 1995
All That Glitters
Eliza's elegance is often undercut by lackluster food and perfunctory service
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