they may not technically be described as SJB in their menu, but the pan fried pork buns at tasty noodle house in the same plaza as golden deli are awfully good.
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I’ve always liked the SJB at Tasty Noodle House. When their Sawtelle location first opened, I was lovin’ it.
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A couple of updates on Alhambra’ Main street:
It looks like Beijing Pie House has closed permanently. I haven’t seen any activity at the restaurant in weeks. Yelp reports the status as CLOSED.
Boiling Crab moved one block west. I guess they were waiting until the new location completed its update.
A new restaurant opened a few months back, Meet Qin Noodle. I think they specialize with Shaanxi cuisine. I have not tried it.
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In San Gabriel, Hunan Spicy Taste has been replaced by the Taiwanese leaning Tasty House. L2 New Tea will open in the former AU 79 space.
Any decent outdoor dining left in the 626 or has everything moved back indoors
Update - 5 stars hue Alhambra - yes per phone call
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I think it literally changes daily, and a lot of the smaller restaurants have limited outdoor dining. Recently outdoor meals at OK Cafe, Cafe Baccali, Top Island. There are still a lot of tents out there, and the only place I know of that has a tent but doesn’t use it is NBC.
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Yeah that’s why I’m poking around for fresh info instead of looking up thread. Thanks for update.
Gold Hibachi Buffet reopens Saturday (pushed back from last Sunday).
the sam woo in focus plaza (del mar/valley) is no more. it has been replaced by:
which apparently has a similar menu.
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That was my 2nd choice for Sam Woo! Nothing beats the OG in Alhambra
In other news 626 Night Market opened on the 10th
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i think this was one of the ones liquidated as a consequence of the tax evasion thing. one of the two still needs to pony up some serious dough to shorten his jail term.
Major changes in the San Gabriel Hilton adjacent shopping center. Chang’an, the Chinese gastropub is being replaced by something called Tang Dynasty. Meanwhile, downstairs Shan Dong Dumplings is gone, half the space replaced by a branch of Yomie’s Rice & Yogurt and the other half being prepared for something called Dim Shui.
FWIW, the pasadena location has also shuttered.
tai chi?
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Tams Noodle House I think I am going to hit this up while I am back in town. It might be better than Noodle Boy based on the looks and reviews I read
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I concur with #79 with beef and wontons. I also have a weakness for the salted egg yolk chicken wings.
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i suspect tam’s will fill the niche created by the closing of noodle boy. but noodle boy’s prices were maybe only $1.50-2.00 more than those of their competitors. the very very good wonton mien with brisket at tam’s runs $12.50 plus tax while harlam’s kitchen’s wonton mien with beef stew is $8.50. those on a budget may still favor harlam’s.
Embassy Kitchen is reopening.
I arrived just as they were closing and did not get a chance to order any food… However, several of their signature dishes are not listed in their soft-opening menu which bears two new phone numbers.
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i wonder who’s in the kitchen; i understand the place closed because the chef was packing it in.
maybe it’s a toisan thing, but i missed the steamed minced pork with sausages the most.
Yes, who’s in the kitchen is the $64 question. Closure was due to a planned shopping center development on the site, and the old owner-chef didn’t want to bother to start from scratch at a new location, so if the property has been re-leased maybe that development is dead. The owner-chef did pop up at Ocean Bo in El Monte at dinnertime, so the Ocean Bo dinner menu looks a bit like the old Embassy Kitchen, including the pressed chicken, tilapia rolls and stuffed duck. However the pandemic hit weeks later before we got a chance to check it out. We did finally drop by Ocean Bo last week at lunch time, and they still have the dinner menu we saw last year. Also, as you may recall, the titular head chef at Embassy (not the gray haired owner-chef) opened up his own operation in Diamond Bar a while back, but that was a fast and casual operation. So the question is which, if either of the two, is behind the reopening. Can’t wait to find out.
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