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Chinese Restaurant San Francisco

KL Restaurant: Raiding the Aquarium in Outer Richmond [CLOSED]

Outside of surfers and residents, not many people venture to San Francisco’s Outer Richmond neighborhood. However, a few hopeful restaurateurs have wagered that people would make the effort to look beyond mainline hoods like...
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Restaurant Sign San Francisco

San Tung: Straddling Korea-China Border in San Francisco

It may not have made the most sense to write about San Tung in 2008. Sure, I enjoyed the wings and potstickers from the popular Sunset District restaurant, but the 15-minute transit time before...
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Chinese Food Los Angeles

Shanghai No. 1 Seafood Village Pork

My friends were inspired by one of Jonathan Gold’s final LA Weekly reviews, of Shanghai No. 1 Seafood Village. Tamara made a reservation at “the most ambitious Chinese restaurant to open in Los Angeles...
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Chinese Food Los Angeles

Elite Restaurant: Getting Wild in Monterey Park

From the moment Helen Springut established a Los Angeles outpost of the Gastronauts, an adventurous eating club that Curtiss Calleo and Ben Pauker started in New York, it was inevitable that I’d end up...
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Chinese Restaurant San Francisco

Mission Chinese Food: Building on Ancient Traditions

It’s unlikely to find so much national buzz emanate from a neighborhood Chinese joint, but that’s exactly what Anthony Myint, Karen Leibowitz and chef Danny Bowien managed to generate at Mission Chinese Food, a...
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Dim Sum San Francisco

Koi Palace: Delivering a Dim Sum Clinic in Daly City

August 21 might go down as the day where dim sum finally came into focus for me. The epiphany occurred at Koi Palace, a restaurant from Willy Ng that’s situated just off the 280...
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