I’ve been trying to find a good place for Chinese breakfast in the south bay. Chinese breakfast usually means shao bing (燒餅), you tiao (油條; fried cruller; Chinese donuts), soy milk, etc. Upon seeing an ad in the local Chinese newspaper advertising a new restaurant serving Chinese breakfast, we decided to check it out. As [...]

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Tucked away in a forgettable strip mall in Sunnyvale there’s a place called Shanghai Flavor Shop. The name is strange and it also serves a special item that is rarely found in the SF bay area: Sheng Jian Bao. ShengJianBao (生煎包; Pan Fried Pork Buns) is a popular Shanghai xiaochi item which is made from [...]

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Besides having the best Niu Rou Mian in the bay area, ASJ San Jose also has a variety of northern Chinese style xiao chi (dim sum; small eats) items. Besides the standard shui jiao (水餃 water dumpling) offerings and the so-so Xiao Long Bao, it offers the open-ended pot stickers. This style of guo tie [...]

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It is well known in the bay area that when you wanted good Peking Duck, (北京烤鴨; Beijing KaoYa) the place to go is Great China in Berkeley. But what else can you get here that is special and wonderful? That’s what I wanted to find out a couple of weekends ago. Great China is actually [...]

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