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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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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A lot can happen in a few years on the bay area Asian dining scene. Ever since I wrote about one of the very fist Mongolian-style Hot Pot place in the San Francisco Bay area - Chef King’s in San Mateo in 2004, there has been a couple of new places that sells the same. [...]

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The Chinese name for China Bee in San Mateo is ChungHua Rd. (中華路). It is named after one of the most historically important (gastronomically speaking) streets in Taipei, Taiwan . It is the street where some of the best modern day pot stickers, peking ducks, and niu rou mian shops were located. [...]

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Not to be confused with the “original” Chili Garden in Fremont, a new Sichuan style restaurant has opened in the popular Milpitas Square shopping center, arguably the largest Chinese shopping center in the San Francisco bay area.

My friends and I decided to put this place through its paces during lunch. First dish was the “Ants [...]

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Around November 2007, a new restaurant opened in the space formerly occupied by Chili Garden in Fremont. It claimed to be one of bay area’s first and only “Lu” style (魯菜) restaurant. The Chinese name translated literally means “Old #5’s Shandong Cuisine”. But they have kept the same English name of Chili Garden, which was [...]

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After discovering another hand-pulled Shandong noodle restaurant in at Four Seasons, I wanted to go back to another place that sells hand-pulled noodles (手拉麵) for a comparison. The place is called Palace Chef in Fremont. The Chinese name translates to “Shandong Eatery”. It has also been around for quite awhile. Though there’s a newer hand-pulled [...]

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Hidden away in a strip mall formerly occupied by Nob Hill Foods on the busy stretch of De Anza Blvd is a Korean-Chinese restaurant that still makes noodles the old fashion way - 100% hand-made and hand-pulled. It is run by Shandong-ren who came to US via Pusan, Korea, a port city in the south [...]

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