Do you know if this is the restaurant that replaced the space occupied by Cindy’s Buffet in San Mateo downtown? Because that restaurant was owned by Chinese from Korea.
And since you mentioned Gan Pong Chicken - this is a signature Shandong-style dish found in Korean-Chinese restaurants. That’s why I’m suspecting maybe there’s a connection here.
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We visited a recently opened Hunanese restaurant in Fremont. The restaurant claimed to be authentic Hunan-style. In Chinese cusine, Hunan cusine is sometimes considered to be an even hotter, spicier cousin to the famously spicy Szechuan cusine. So with the upcoming long weekend, we decided to give it a try.
The restaurant sits in a depressing [...]

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ManTou is a general term for Buns without any fillings. The Special Twisted Buns are a type of ManTou. It’s probably YinSeJuan. The “huge” one that I mentioned in the original post is also a type of ManTou.
BaoZi on the other hand is more like a giant dumpling - in the sense that it has [...]

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We finally made our annual trip to Oakland Chinatown over the weekend. We decided to try out the Shan Dong restaurant for it’s “famous” shui jiao (water dumplings).
ShuiJiao is a Northern Chinese food, and a specialty of Shandong (literally meaning Mountain-East) province. Other food that are often attributed to Shandong origin are ManTou (a doughy [...]

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