if you like dumplings, ly family kitchen in rowland heights deserves consideration. besides doing a good job with the typical fillings, they also offer fillings such as lobster/chicken & corn/ and even mackerel. they also offer frozen dumplings to go.
or if the fusion of cantonese/mexican that developed in mexicali due to the chinese exclusion act intrigues you, there’s cachinella in pomona.
otherwise cindy’s kitchen would probably get my vote.
I think those are special order items.
according to their website which then linked to a beyondmenu page
their only pre-order special items are a sea cucumber dumpling and a ‘cuttlet fish dumpling’. and they’ve got an impressive list of frozen dumplings.
having said that, it may well be that they don’t serve some of the frozen offerings for consumption there, which would strike me as a little odd, but hey, i bet they probably do special orders if properly motivated.
Major downhill alert for Lunasia in Alhambra. It’s kind of nice they’ve gone full steam ahead on minimizing contact. Main dining room has been partitioned off into separate dining areas. But here’s where it gets annoying. Even if you dine in, you order online from your smartphone, then all your dishes arrive at once. And you never see a server again unless you flag them down. But that’s besides the point. Lunasia is not one of the more inventive of the top tier dim sum places in town, but they do the standards very well. But not any more. Our first post-redesigned dining room visit had many more misses than hits. This is certainly not the Lunasia I’ve been used to eating at.
Has Shanghai No. 1 Seafood Village in San Gabriel reopened? I believe the space was listed for lease last year. Yelp shows it as active with two February reviews and Google seems to indicate it’s open, too.
Sheng Yuan Dongbei opens in San Gabriel replacing Pho Hai Kieu. Don’t recall a cuisine flip of a location like that before.
The former Chung King? That went through a few changes, then stablizied as Pho Hai Kieu.
Interesting, Dongbei stalwart Shenyang Tasty (the former Shen Yang) is further up San Gabriel, having moved one building up from next to the former HK Market now Good Fortune Market.
I definitely want to know more about this. Same folks? Different folks, same name? Intriguing.
Too bad about Pho Hai Kieu. Quite liked their northern, Hanoi style stuff.
are we thinking of the same place? i recall PHK specializing in pho ga. they had a unique ginger based dipping sauce for the chicken.
originally on garvey near atlantic? another dongbei place took over that location & i assumed they’d just gone through a name change. that place & chef geng were my default dongbei places to patronize. thousands nasty, er, tasty did the WSGV a favor by burning down. looking back, i now wonder if it was arson - if not by the owners, then by customers.
Don’t think you’re wrong, but we ended up ordering bun cha and banh cuon and in talking to the son of the owners, learned they were originally from Hanoi.
Yes, formerly Chung King and Crown Cafe.
The Bowl replaces Fu Fu BBQ in San Gabriel, which transitorily replaced Sweethome Cafe.
Arcadia’s Ikka Sizzling Pot has just opened a San Gabriel branch in the same shopping center as Mian. Due to the shortage of restaurant locations in the San Gabriel Valley, they took over space that last housed a women’s dress shop.
Same name, different restaurant. The current Shen Yang Tasty was formerly the Shen Yang on San Gabriel Blvd., just south of Las Tunas.
Not to be confused with the Shen Yang on Garvey or Shen Yang that was in City of Industry. The three restaurants apparently had no connection to each other aside from the name and all being Dongbei-style (hence Shen Yang). Even though there was a lot of overlap, some didn’t even have the same items. One of the most SGV things ever.
Chao Wei Ju replaces Nguyen Hoang in San Gabriel after a quarter century. Chiu chow style noodles etc.
tony’s BBQ is setting up inside the ranch 99 in alhambra. a sign proclaims that they will also be offering bibingkas, which i understand is a filipino specialty. perhaps they’re trying to leverage off the jolibee that replaced the arby’s in the same mall?
Ohhhhh, I was wondering what that was! For some reason I thought it was a bibingka only place that was opening up which seemed a little too specific
warrior: i went to Noodle Art last week and was unimpressed by everything. i’ve had better luck at nearby Northern Cafe on Garfield.
Really enjoyed Meet Qin in that genre.
Especially the Lamb and Cumin!