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Wild Ginger (Alameda) Janelle Bitker biangbiang mian.Thousand Tasty (Milpitas) HO no liang pi.Terra Cotta Warrior (SF Outer Sunset) HO CH Jonathan Kauffman 2019 SF Chronicle Top 100.Shaanxi 陕西 / Xi’an 西安 (most have wide hand-ripped noodles and liang pi. See also Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Daguid’s book, Beyond the Great Wall See also Olivia Wu’s SF Gate article to see what the scene was like in 2002.

This initial post is a wiki, so I can update it with your tips to keep things current.Ĭlosures are recorded in the graveyard of 247 regional Chinese restaurants and the 2014 Version 2.0 of this list is on Chowhound. Please add new discoveries and let us know if anything has been mis-characterized, especially if a place’s menu doesn’t reflect the purported region. The San Francisco Bay Area Cantonese Primer is a quick primer to get you started down that route. Some Cantonese sub-categories are included, but let’s focus on Cantonese (i.e., Guangdong) and Hong Kong in other posts since they form the foundation of the Bay Area’s Chinese cuisine, and have lots of specialty shops worthy of their own discussions (e.g., dim sum, desserts, meats, etc.). Also check out Clarissa Wei’s regional Chinese guide to LA and Jim Thurman’s Essential Guide to Regional Chinese Food in LA. For specific dishes, I recommend looking through Carolyn Phillips’ website and book on regional Chinese cuisine, All Under Heaven. For a curated analogue of the guide, consider the San Francisco Chronicle’s James Beard Award winning Many Chinas, Many Tables project, which used this list to identify candidate restaurants, and which contains short descriptions and dish recommendations for dozens of restaurants.įor additional background on cuisines, the Modern Chinese Foodways conference has a bountiful resources page. I’ve also included links to Chowhound discussions and journalist reviews, and each restaurant is linked to Yelp for address and location info. For a more in-depth discussion of a restaurant or regional cuisine, and to help separate restaurant specialties from fool’s gold, check out linked discussions on Hungry Onion or start a new discussion to get the ball rolling. Treat these categories as rough guidance, and be warned the list includes outstanding restaurants and real stinkers. Regions of course don’t live in a vacuum, and a chef’s pedigree (or menu) says nothing of their skills at making regional dishes. The list is a superficial treatment, but it will point you to over 400 restaurants whose specialties fall outside the general Cantonese or Chinese American umbrellas.

To help make sense of the diversity of Chinese cuisine available in the Bay Area, this project aims to document restaurants that specialize in a regional, or ethnic-based, Chinese sub-cuisine, or at least have uncommon regional dishes. You could eat at Bay Area Chinese restaurants every night for a month, devoting each meal to a different region of China, ethnic group, or international community, and never repeat a restaurant or style. If I could give them a zero I would.Since the 1960s, the Bay Area’s repertoire of Chinese dishes has continued to expand beyond its Cantonese roots. As if paying for a puddle of grease wasn't bad enough there was a roach in the noodles.

The worse part was when I dumped the noodles into a Tupperware to see if it was salvageable since everything leaked. There was I'm pretty sure it was old and microwaved.

It was chow mein, braised shrimp and cashew chicken plus Mongolian beef. I order a family meal since we had guest over. This was the worse experience yet and I will absolutely never ever order from this place again. The first time the rice was dry and hard the egg rolls were chewy but the chicken and noodles were fine. The first time I did not have a great experience but I believe everyone deserves a chance to redeem themselves. I have ordered from this facility before. Now before I get started I never write bad reviews.

#Chef chen brentwood menu update#

#Chef chen brentwood menu plus#