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Brandy Ho's
217 Columbus Ave.
at Pacific Ave.
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Brandy Ho's was catered in at Alexis' work, but sadly, the usually good food was sub-par. So, she met Giao at a new burger place that opened up where the Fatt Dogg used to be.. >
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Jai Yun
923 Pacific Ave.
at Powell St.
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Growing up Chinese, I’ve been to my share of Chinese banquets, where dishes and dishes of food come one after another until you actually hear people saying: “please, enough.” But I.. >
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R & G Lounge
631 Kearny St.
at Commercial St.
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Hot and Soup Soup $2 This was quite a good deal, but this lunch special was standard in execution. 1/2 Roast Duck $15 Far too expensive when you can get a whole roast duck for $1.. >
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Yank Sing
101 Spear St.
at Mission St.
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I know SF is an expensive city. But I never expected dim sum to cost so much. Yank Sing has pretty good dim sum but it's very expensive and not worth the price.
The first picture.. >
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Gold Mountain
644 Broadway
b/w Stockton St. & Columbus Ave.
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We walked a mile on a pilgrimmage to a dim sum place that we'd only heard of and had been wanting to try. Unfortunately, it was closed and so we went to our old standby, which was.. >
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Mayflower
6255 Geary Blvd
at 27th Ave.
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Whenever we are out in the Richmond, getting our hair cut, we always try to make it to Mayflower, a seafood place with some very tasty dim sum. Usually, we go home about $30 light.. >
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Shanghai Dumpling Shop
3319 Balboa St.
at 34th Ave.
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What are the three things that determine restaurant prices?.. >
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Hang Ah Tea Room
1 Pagoda Pl
at Sacramento & Stockton St.
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We are still looking for a new favorite dim sum place near the financial district and today we decided to try the oldest dim sum place (or so they claim) in SF. It has been around .. >
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Dim Sum Bar
620 O'Farrell St.
b/w Ada Ct & Harlem Aly
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We read about a dim sum place in the Tenderloin that serves dim sum all day and is open late. And cheap too. We had to try it. Any place that serves dim sum all day is already w.. >
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Creations
5217 Geary Blvd
b/w 16th & 17th St.
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After our shabu-shabu dinner our friend, L, was craving a dessert from Creations, a place we had never heard of. He talked it up so much that we agreed to drive with him all the wa.. >
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Eric's
1500 Church St.
at 27th St.
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I started going to Eric’s about ten years ago and I have loved it ever since. We will drive from Livermore to San Francisco just to have Eric’s, it’s that good. Anytime we are in S.. >
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Firecracker
1007 Valencia St.
at 21st St.
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Firecracker is a nifty little Chinese restaurant with a very funky atmosphere. One of the first things you'll notice after passing the maroon curtain separating the door from the b.. >
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Good Luck Dim Sum
736 Clement St.
b/w 8th & 9th Ave.
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From the looks of the crowd, Good Luck Dim Sum is for locals. There are no tourists or ladies who lunch at this counter service, no frills establishment. The women who take your or.. >
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Hing Lung Restaurant
674 Broadway
b/w Stockton St. & Columbus Ave.
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3.5
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The reason Hing Lung has been one of my favorite restaurants for over fifteen years is because they use fresh, seasonal ingredients in imaginative ways that never fail to satisfy. .. >
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Imperial Tea Court
1411 Powell St.
at Broadway
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SFist can't even begin to recall the number of times it has aimlessly wandered past the Imperial Tea Court in San Francisco's Ferry Building Market Place and wondered why it appear.. >
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Lichee Garden
1416 Powell St.
b/w Broadway & Vallejo S
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I started a tradition with my friends a year or so ago called 'family dinner'—we get a group of 20 or so pals together and go hit some unusual restaurants around town (some highlig.. >
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Mandalay
4348 California St.
at 6th Ave.
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Oh, my goodness. I really enjoyed this restaurant. The decor was very pleasant. I went there on a Monday's night about 8:30PM and it was quiet but I love restaurant like that. Serv.. >
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Ton Kiang
5821 Geary Blvd
b/w 22nd & 23rd Ave.
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Nice atmosphere, good food. My friend Sachiko introduced me to a very good Chinese restaurant in San Francisco, Ton Kiang. We started out with a couple of dim sum selections, whi.. >
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Yee's Restaurant
1131 Grant Ave.
b/w Broadway & Pacific Ave.
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My old blog friend, Eat, Drink, & Be Merry and Jeni from Oishii Eats visited San Francisco (and me) this past weekend, and I had a deliciously fantastic time with them. .. >
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Yuet Lee
1300 Stockton St.
at Broadway
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If you're in Chinatown in the middle of the night and you need a squid fix, have I got a place for you... >
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Old Mandarin Islamic Restaurant
3132 Vicente St.
b/w 42nd & 43rd Ave.
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I don’t know what hot shot marketing researcher thought of the name of this restaurant, but I don’t think that they were targeting the white males between the ages of 17 and 34 dem.. >
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Abacus
2078 Hayes St.
at Cole St.
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I don't mean Dolls, and my title is also not a nod to that meta show on The O.C. (I've been Netflixing a lot of that these days. Don't look at me like that -- I love Adam Brody!), .. >
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All Season
91 Drumm St.
at California St.
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$$$$$
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We heard that there was a dim sum place in the financial district, something we've been trying to find ever since the relocation of Harbor Village, a quality dim sum place that use.. >
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Chef Jia's
925 Kearny St.
b/w Jackson St. & Columbus Ave.
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The best thing about Chef Jia's is that it is cheap and does not make you sick. Also, it is right next to House of Nanking and it does not have the crazy lines... >
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Denny's Café
5530 Geary Blvd
b/w 19th & 20th Ave.
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We went straight from work, to a movie, to a bar, and before we knew it it was 12:30 and we hadn't eaten since lunch...the only solution: Denny's. (It also helped that it was on o.. >
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Dragon Well
2142 Chestnut St.
b/w Pierce & Steiner St.
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Dragon Well promises healthier Chinese fare, with fresh ingredients and without all the grease. It delivers on that promise, though with a little white-washing of the 'heat' and sm.. >
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Eliza's
2877 California St.
b/w Broderick & Divisadero St.
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We had dinner with a friend who recommended Eliza's. We were not impressed. The food was Americanized and the dishes were not distinct, with a couple of exceptions... >
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Four Seas Restaurant
731 Grant Ave.
b/w Sacramento & Clay St.
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After being stymied by long lines at another dim sum joint, Giao did the unthinkable and picked a random place in Chinatown. After walking up the stairs in the entry, and being gr.. >
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Hai Ky Mi Gia
707 Ellis St.
at Larkin St.
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If you're not Chinese or Vietnamese you will be a conspicuous consumer at this Noodle house. If you're not into soup, you should go somewhere else. It's all about slurping in this .. >
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Happy Garden
815 Clement St.
at 9th Ave.
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Certain things it's just better to go out for. In this category of could-make-it-at-home-but-won't are really elegant multi-course French meals, sushi and Chinese food. Oh I guess .. >
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Henry's Hunan Restaurant
110 Natoma St.
b/w 2nd & New Montgomery St.
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2.5
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Henry’s Hunan is not the place to go if you are on Atkins. You must eat rice with the food that is served here, if you don’t the seasoning will seem off balance (like having straig.. >
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House of Nanking
919 Kearny St.
b/w Jackson St. & Pacific Ave.
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I'm always impressed with my meals at House of Nanking, a busy little Chinese restaurant on the border between Chinatown and the Financial District. This is a good place to go with.. >
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Jumbo Seafood Restaurant
1532 Noriega St.
at 22nd Ave.
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Just about everyone we spoke to told us that Jumbo's was THE place to go for seafood in Singapore. And it was very good. It is an open-air restaurant about 10 yards from the beach,.. >
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Kam Po Kitchen
801 Broadway
at Powell St.
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Old batteries in a camera that sucks the life out of them quicker than the whole cast of Underworld: Evolution fanging out on a 130-pound, bespectacled pipsqueak named Herbert Twil.. >
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Kam's Restaurant
3624 Balboa St.
b/w 37th & 38th Ave.
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A less than inspiring catered in Chinese lunch at work..... >
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Louie's California Chinese Cuisine
646 Washington St.
b/w Kearny St. & Columbus Ave.
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Located across from the Holiday Inn, and just down the street from Portsmouth Square, Louies is off the beaten path in a building that used to house a Japanese restaurant. A Louies.. >
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Lucky Creation
854 Washington St.
at Ross Alley
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Ever since my old college friend Eli turned me on to Lucky Creation about 10 years ago, I make a trek there almost everytime we make it up to San Francisco. I introduced Maria to t.. >
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Lucky Fortune Seafood Restaurant
5715 Geary Blvd
at 21st Ave.
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We made the trek up to San Francisco for a little saturday afternoon dim sum feast at Lucky Fortune. The dim sum items aren't picked from trays or carts but from a limited dim sum .. >
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Mon Kiang
683 Broadway
at Stockton St.
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I was walking home through Chinatown today at lunchtime. I didn’t feel like sitting down in a restaurant. I just wanted something fast, to get home before it started to pour rain.. >
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Nan King Road Bistro
1360 9th Ave.
b/w Irving & Judah St.
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Since I was off from my regular day job this week, I got the chance to visit with some friends. Yesterday I had lunch with my friend Denise. Denise always tells others that I was t.. >
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New Asia
772 Pacific Ave.
b/w Grant Ave. & Stockton St.
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$$$$$
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We decided to forgo the catered in lunch at work and ventured out to the Crocker Galleria, a food court that at first seems like nice because of the glass fronts, but then you real.. >
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New Lun Ting Cafe
670 Jackson St.
at Grant Ave.
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It's probably not fair to begin the first post of my new blog about a dive in Chinatown, since Chinatown itself is basically one big dive. Nevertheless, there are a few exceptions .. >
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Panda Express
500 Parnassus Ave.
On the UCSF Campus
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Anna does the drive-thru. It was a very rainy afternoon, the kind that makes you just want to curl up in a blanket in front of a fire and not go out. But out I was, at an afterno.. >
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Parc Hong Kong Restaurant
5322 Geary Blvd
at 17th Ave.
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My friend Casey was visiting in the area and she had been deprived of good food for over a year. After roaming the streets of San Francisco, we stumbled at Parc Hong Kong. The rest.. >
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Pho Hoa Clement
239 Clement St.
b/w 3rd & 4th Ave.
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3.5
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We usually spend one night a week under the blaring TV (always tuned to Wheel of Fortune) at Pho Clement. We always get fresh rolls or imperial rolls and pho tai. I love all Vietna.. >
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Pho Hoa Hung
425 Ellis St.
b/w Jones & Leavenworth St.
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3.5
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Today’s chilly weather had Pho written all over it. I decided to try somewhere new and walked by some of my favorite Vietnamese soup places to check out Pho Hoa... >
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Sam Woh
813 Washington St.
b/w Grant Ave. & Waverly Pl
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For the 7+ hour drive down to Southern California from Northern California, my family has designated certain pitstops as places we "always" stop, even if we don't need to fill up o.. >
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Shanghai China Restaurant
1559 Mission St.
at Van Ness Ave.
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I was feeling a bit under the weather, so we ordered in. Alexis went through the sheaf of menus that get slipped under our door regularly, and came up with Shanghai China. Unfortun.. >
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Spices II
291 6th Ave.
at Clement St.
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$$$$$
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If you like watching Chinese Karaoke in PeeWee’s commissary while you dine on food hot enough to scorch your nose hair, look no further than Spices! II. Chubby and I stumbled into .. >
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T 28
1753 Taraval St.
at 28th Ave.
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A recent breakfast at T-28 Cafe in the Outer Sunset reminded me just how good a cup of hot, strong milk tea tastes on lazy weekend mornings. Although the richness of a well-aged pu.. >
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Them Ky
717 Ellis St.
at Larkin St.
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The overcast City meant one thing today - Pho. It was time to try Them Ky. Dac Biet was served with a plate of bean sprouts, basil, sliced jalapeno peppers and limes. I have a thin.. >
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Tian Sing
138 Cyril Magnin St.
at Ellis St.
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We had not really eaten breakfast and were quite hungry as we stumbled across a Dim Sum place not too far from home that we'd never eaten at before. It was average priced for good .. >
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Tommy Toy's Cuisine Chinoise
655 Montgomery St.
b/w Clay & Washington St.
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The financial district is a really hard place to find a decent, moderately priced lunch. There is a lot of fast food, and a lot of high end , 2 hour lunch kind of places, but not m.. >
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Y. Ben House Restaurant
835 Pacific Ave.
at Trenton St.
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While strolling down to the boulange on Polk this morning, we changed our minds on a whim and headed instead to Chinatown for Dim Sum. I had been meaning to try Y Ben House ever s.. >
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Yum Yum House
581 Valencia St.
b/w 16th & 17th St.
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What an interesting name for this place. My friends took me there for dinner last night... >
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Taishan Cafe
1125 Clement St.
b/w 12th & Funston Ave.
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2.5
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I'm talking about the Taishan Cafe restaurant. My co-worker, whom I'll refer to as "G-spot", tipped me off to Taishan after listening to me complain, day in and day out, about the.. >
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New Hong Kong Menu
667 Commercial Street
b/w Kearny St & Montgomery St
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Happy New Year, Chinese style. I met Sachiko for dinner tonight, and we tried a small restaurant favorite of hers on the edge of Chinatown, New Hong Kong Menu. I apologize for th.. >
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Ming Tai Wun-Tun Noodle
2455 Noriega Street
b/w 31st Ave & 32nd Ave
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Tucked away in the Outer Sunset is one of the lesser-known neighborhood districts in San Francisco, centered on the intersection of 32nd Avenue and Noriega Street. The commercial s.. >
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Amy's Cafe
175 Steuart St.
b/w Mission & Howard St.
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Andy's
1358 9th Ave.
b/w Irving & Judah St.
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Asia
825 Mission St.
b/w 4th & 5th St.
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Baboo Café
1639 Irving St.
b/w 17th & 18th Ave.
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Ben Wah
2786 California St.
at Divisadero St.
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Best Panda
4052 Balboa St.
b/w 41st & 42nd Ave.
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Big Lantern
3170 16th St.
b/w Valencia & Guerrero St.
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Cafe Le
2895 Van Ness Ave.
at Chestnut St.
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Canton
655 Folsom St.
b/w 3rd & Hawthorne St.
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Cheung Hing
2339 Noriega St.
b/w 30th & 31st Ave.
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China House
2237 Powell St.
b/w Bay & Francisco St.
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China Wok
667 Monterey Blvd
b/w Foerster & Gennessee St.
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Dak Win
2845 Mission St.
b/w 24th & 25th St.
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DPD
901 Kearny St.
at Jackson St.
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