HK Saigon Seafood has been open for about a year or two in Sunnyvale. Previous occupants, which included another dim sum place, did not fare too well at this location. But HK Saigon seems to have reversed the trend and is doing quite well. On a weekday lunch, the place was packed with lines out [...]

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Darda is good for family dinner (very loud place so kids should fit right in). But it is northern style so expect to eat lots of sesame bread and knife-cut noodles - one of the best for it.
Dynasty is HK/Cantonese but is more banquet style so very high-end and expensive ingredients = expensive price for [...]

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After browsing the menu for Kirin and Shen Hua, it is certain that there’s a Shandong chef working there. So it is at least half Korean-Chinese. If I ever make it up there, I can confirm for sure.
But from the menu, many of the classic Shandong dishes are evident: All the different Mu Shu dishes, [...]

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After a few months of re-modeling, King Crab finally re-opened at its former location, but much bigger and better. Seems like they have expanded on both sides with more private rooms and more tables. All tables and chairs were also replaced with fancier wood versions probably shipped from China.
But more importantly, a new addition was [...]

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This place boasts a huge menu of items from all areas of Chinese cuisine. It not only has the wide range of different Chinese cuisine representated similar to “Q’s in Newark”, but it also has depth of many more items for each area.Unfortunately that’s where the good news ends. Over multiple visits, I’ve tried a [...]

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It’s hard to characterize the exact type of cuisine served by Q’s Chinese. The menu is very diverse, with dishes from Sichuan, Shanghai, Taiwan, and even Beijing (as in northern style). Sichuan items included chili oil dumplings, water boiled fish/beef, etc. Shanghai dishes included clear stir-fried shrimp, kao fu, Shanghai thick noodles, etc. The Taiwnese [...]

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Upon reading Ruth’s report on ABC’s dim sum disappointment, I went there the other day at lunch with a friend to check it out. It’s been awhile since I’ve been there. We sat down and ordered the following:
Har Gao - This was the first dish we tried and immediately I knew something was not right. [...]

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After visiting the Fremont Farmer’s Market, we decided to check out the adjacent shopping mall. Anchored by Kragen’s auto, this mall featured a variety of ethnic stores such as a All You Can Eat Mexican restaurant, Indian grocery store, an Afghan(?) Kabob restaurant, and an Indian sweets store selling many different types of Indian sweets, [...]

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