I attended a Chowdown lunch event hosted by Melanie and the Chowhound gang at Chili Garden. It was nice having the company of fellow hounds and trying many different dishes. Thinking back, it now seems that the place may have had yet another change in ownership or the kitchen staff.
I thought the cold dishes were [...]

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Last summer, a three-alarm fire broke out at China Way Restaurant in Santa Clara and burned the place down. China Way was a place for serving Shandong noodles and other Korean-Chinese dishes popular with the local Korean and Chinese population alike. They were one of the two Shandong-style restaurants on El Camino Real in Santa [...]

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Years ago when the SF bay area ramen scene belonged to only the few - Tampopo and Katana-Ya up north in San Francisco, Santa and Ryowa ruled the ends of the Penninsula in San Mateo and Mountain View, and Tokushima Do-Henkotsu and Ringer Hut held their grounds in the south bay. The east bay [...]

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A new 30,000 sq. ft. Super Kyo-Po Plaza and Korean Market has opened on the corner of Lawrence and Homestead in Santa Clara. It takes over the location of Green Earth Foods, which was originally a Consentino’s market. The one mile stretch of El Camino Real around the Sunnyvale-Santa Clara border of Lawrence Ave has [...]

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There are many “genres” of restaurants that are popular in Taiwan. Among them are Hot Pot places, noodle places such as NiuRouMian shops, rice places such as Pai Gu (pork shop rice) shops, and other Xiao Chi (small eats) shops. Another popular style is the porridge place, which usually opens later into the night and [...]

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Cafe Ophelia is a Taiwanese style restaurant serving Western style food as one would find in Taiwan. Some may call it a fusion restaurant, but it is known in the Taiwanese circles as a higher-end scale, stylish, western restaurant. Coincidentally, to survive in the bay area, they’ve also had to adjust and include many traditional [...]

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San Tung is a very popular Chinese restaurant located in the sunset district of San Francisco. It is known for its garlicky fried chicken wings. Lesser known is that this dish is called Gan Pong Chicken, a popular dish in Shandong style Chinese restaurants in Korea. The most authentic and original version of this dish [...]

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Santa Ramen is an old name in the SF bay area for ramen. It was around long before ramen became as popular as it is now. It also used to be the standard for which all other bay area ramen were judged against. But then as the newer ramen shops began popping up several [...]

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