imma start a separate thread on this lol
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Lu Kee Delicatessen was supposed to open up in the space next to/overlooking Good Fortune Supermarket in Monterey Park. Instead it’s Tou Dan Tang Catering LLC, a hotpot and noodle soup restaurant.
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BPMO Cafe has a seasonal item, Beef Dip Sandwich. It’s their take of the Beef Noodle Soup. Very good.
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I like some of their food and drinks. Golden Deli next door is always a plus.
Taiwanese beef noodle soup is my fav dish not sure how I feel about sandwich form!!
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went back a couple of weeks ago.
the lunch menu specials are a pretty good deal IMO.
we tried the beef w/long bean
and the braised pork belly (two hard boiled eggs included)
my liunch companion took a look at the regular menu and decided to try the shanghai rice cakes since they’d been to shanghai recently but they were deemed to taste differently. the waiter who is a shanghai native sampled the dish and pronounced it appropriately seasoned but they relented and re-cooked it with some additional soy sauce. i mention this primarily to illustrate how accommodating they are.
overall, i put this place up pretty high for QPR for the lunch specials.
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they always have fun takes on dishes.
Prince Dumpling replaces Rice Yummy in Rosemead.
Interesting re: rice cakes. I’ve never had them there, but that picture looks like way less dark soy sauce than I’ve ever had it (or prepared it myself). But I haven’t been to Shanghai in many years. I’m glad they accommodated!
That’s one of my dad’s favorite dishes. Rice cakes with Shepherds purse and meat. Never that dark (might be my family’s preference). I also been to other Shanghainese places in Flushing and SGV that was also more on the light side
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Bruv that is my J-A-M. That picture above looks to be a different nian gao dish (the equivalent to cu cao mian, not ji cai nian gao). For the pictured, you would expect a darker color. For ji cai nian gao I never use soy sauce. Just salt and white pepper!
I also make shepherds purse and tofu soup with my own gao tang – picky Shanghainese mom approved.
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Seeking most crispy chow mein recommendation, preferably seafood. Mom insists all the canto places will offer the same quality so may as well go to Sam woo.
Saw Kristie Hang go to A Me Kitchen.
Claypot rice that cooks in a machine cutting the cooking time and also insures a perfect crispy bottom layer. Lemon tea is pulled thru a stocking. Soups that old canto people love.
Anyone visit?
288 Valley Blvd
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The former Tasty Garden @chandavkl wrote of the original Tasty Garden folks returning it to former glory a bit into its A-Me run, but he also wrote a few months back of another change. Care to weigh in, @chandavkl? Tasty Garden was known for its claypot rice, and other HK cafe items, some unique, some not so unique, but it was perhaps the (b)est HK cafe in the SGV. At least until, err, umm, a situation arose after expansion. Plus, the menu had dropped some of the more unique items.
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Southern Mini Town.
Looking to explore more Shanghainese food. My father side is Shanghainese. He passed away last year. So eating this food helps me connect with him in a way. I love hearing the Shanghainese language. That also goes for Cantonese and Taiwanese as well.
Malan tou and snow veggie-tofu skin-soy bean (xue cai bai yeh). Quintessential Shanghainese veggie dishes.
You bao shrimp and lions head.
Fried seaweed yellow fish.
Will be back to try the Hanzhou pork belly and crystal shrimp.
My ancestral homeland on my father side is actually from Zhousan. He was born in Shanghai moved to Keelung Taiwan during the civil war. If anyone knows dishes from Zhousan and Keelung let me know. Or any deep cut homestyle Shanghai dishes. I appreciate it. I regret not knowing him more on a personal level. Food can cross cultural bridges but also connect you to the past.
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Clay pot aside the changes seem quite downhill.
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Thanks for the update, David, disappointing as it is. The various tenants in that space have been a true roller coaster quality wise. As Tasty Garden, the quality was good until the original owner sold it off.
My grandma used to really like this place when she was still around. I think their cong you ban mian is nothing to shrug at? I also love hearing Shanghainese. The film I Wish I Knew is full of it. Stream it on Kanopy!
Thanks for sharing that about your dad.
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Thanks for mentioning Kanopy . Had no idea that existed. Free to join with my LA County library card! 30 free tickets a month? WOW.
Will definitely try the cong you ban mian.
You remember other dishes your family got at Southern Mini Town?
Also right across the street is Wang Jia another Shanghainese place. Pretty good imo. I think the son that works there is hilarious af. Probably the most funny waiter in all of SGV or maybe even all Chinese restaurants in the US. I never encountered anyone like him in all my years eating Chinese. He was talking shit about his family and the restaurant right in front of his mom LOL.
Some places I am curious about
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I don’t remember; I think I went there only once with everyone. My mom is not the biggest fan. How did you like the malan tou and aster “salad”? Never know how to describe it in English.
For street food, I think my grandma really liked Dean Sin World for the SJB and XLB. I actually still have not gone!
The SGV Eats Facebook group had mixed reviews on Nanjing Salted duck. Never tried; I wonder how different Nanjing cuisine is from Shanghainese?
Yuan Fen looks interesting. There’s another place out that way whose chuan juan my mom really respected (got to say she makes the best though). S&W China Taste: S & W China Taste - Google Search
Before it was Wang Jia, it was another Shanghainese place. We got a cai fan, hong shao rou, and probably a soup. It was okay? Maybe that place breeds shit talking because my mom started in on the hong shao rou and the owner was at the next table having a nice dinner with his friends. Embarrassed was I much? 
Haven’t been since it’s Wang Jia, or returned to Wang Jia. Aren’t the owners the same who closed it down and opened it up again?
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She has good taste!
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