come for the delicious clay pot, stay because you’re still scraping tasty socarrat off the bottom of your pot.
shout-out to the broccoli.
preserved meat
magaul salted fish with ground pork
龜苓膏
steamed milk with ginger
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312 W. Valley Blvd.
San Gabriel, CA
This tiny OG claypot rice restaurant is legit AF. Love that place so I’m glad it finally has its own dedicated thread on FTC.
Soccarat is a guarantee there. 
Love the token broccoli lol
Gotta eat our veg.
They have a whole mess of double boiled soup.
for those who enjoy clay pot rice, i’ve heard that there’s a place in the same mall as harlam’s kitchen that also makes clay pot rice, but i have yet to try the place myself.
Oh yeah, quite a soup selection. I had some rabbit soup with herbs there quite some time ago, like a decade ago perhaps this very day.
I also recalled they had something translated into English as “cough tea”, but the next time I had a throat/chest bug, I went in and they no longer had it. The waitress recommended something else soothing though. Some Winter Melon soup and a hot lemon coke at the Hong Kong Kitchen across the street helped. Memories.
love this place. Totally under the radar.
any recommendations on which claypot rice dishes to try?
Chinese sausage or half half black bean ribs/Chinese sausage
Preserved 
I wish there was a better one thannatures pagoda but it scratches the itch. I love clay pot rice!
First the “Chinese Hamburger”, and now Nature Pagoda. I need to get back in the game again 
chong yuen fong(?), the place that had the AI generated history has a surprisingly small menu that includes claypot rice though i have yet to try the place which is IIRC located near garfield & valley. according to some article i read they actually throw out their unused BBQ pork every night and make it fresh the next morning. i’ve seen a few recommendations for the place in the food in SGV FB group.
long time standout may mei in arcadia also offers claypot rice IIRC. there was also a decent place in the same mall as harlam’s kitchen but i think the pandemic did them in. the HK places like DFC & alice’s kitchen also offer claypot rice if memory serves. i think tam’s offers one as well and since their stuff overall is pretty good i imagine it wouldn’t disappoint either.
They have some pretty high tech machines from what it looks like on yelp at Chong Yuen fong will have to check it out!
