I’m not shocked. There is nothing like a good chow fun.Legend has it that this chow fun (stir fried rice noodle) is the hardest thing to make in HK and old time chefs judge you by how well you can make it.
I’m not shocked. There is nothing like a good chow fun.Legend has it that this chow fun (stir fried rice noodle) is the hardest thing to make in HK and old time chefs judge you by how well you can make it.
I have eaten a lot of Chinese buffet back when I was a poor student in college, and now I am eating a lot of free school food labeled "for institutional use only" in the pandemic lock down.Most Chinese (although often more pan-Asian) buffets around here are kind of sketchy. However, there were some that were really good with little worry about food safety or the quality of the ingredients. How long they would stay open is another matter. We had a couple here that were very good. I'd put them on par with the Asian section at a Las Vegas casino, or even better. However, they closed. One had this issue where they apparently didn't pay their employees. I'm not sure what was the issue with another place.
This one was quite good. They had to close down for some time because the mall had a rodent problem, but that also affected the mall's food court. I think the rodents we moving through the walls.
Tomi Sushi & Seafood Buffet - Concord, CA
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There was another place south of San Francisco that I've been to a few times, but they were dealing with a lot of issues. None of the issues had anything to do with the quality of the food. The finally had to pay $2.6 million when they closed due to previous rulings of wage theft as well as a WARN Act violation for not giving notice before terminating that many employees.
Bay Area restaurant cited for wage theft shuts down
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This one was the latest. Never been there but heard it was good.
Longstanding Daly City buffet closes, shifts to takeout only
Moonstar Buffet has operated since 1991.www.sfgate.com
I've been to Todai twice. They are not even remotely close to American Chinese. I heard the ownership was Korean.I remember that place at Sun Valley Mall when it was called Todai. I would go there on on special occasions for lunch during my DVC days. they had another one at Stoneridge.
I’ve been to Moonstar a few times. Probably one of the better Chinese-ish buffets I’ve been too. There’s one really sketch one my parents enjoy in the East Bay, their justification for going there is all the cheap seafood they can eat. I get it, cheap Asian parents. In that place’s defense, their food is recognizable but the Latino crowd that goes there do make very good use of siratcha.
there’s a hole in the wall in Chinatown SF that makes a mean braised ox tail. But many Chinatowns are hanging by on a string these days.
I would not be surprised. There’s so many sushi joints that are Korean run. Although, there’s some crossover between Korean and Japanese food.I heard the ownership was Korean.
I just saw a movie on Hulu called Finding General Tso. It was a great movie about American Chinese food and it was funny as well.Two of those are of Taiwanese origin. Crab rangoons are this weird hybrid thing that has almost nothing to do with any actual Chinese cuisine other than the wonton wrapper.
I've heard of Chinese friends taking their parents from Asia to Americanized Chinese restaurants where they had no clue what it was. One friend said his parents asked if it was Thai food.
He knows where to find the good food. Sometimes he hits up a Chinese restaurant and no one speaks any Chinese.
I've been to Todai twice. They are not even remotely close to American Chinese. I heard the ownership was Korean.
Snow pea....?
Investors always ruin things. Todai before Tomi was ok but expensive (by the standard back then). We only went when we have a birthday person.
I just saw a movie on Hulu called Finding General Tso. It was a great movie about American Chinese food and it was funny as well.
I am still not sure how Mongolian is Mongolian beef. I don't think genuine Mongolian use ANY of the ingredient in that dish. Also I still couldn't figure out which part of Mongolian BBQ is Mongolian or BBQ.
Correction. The show was from Japan.It's not. The origin of "Mongolian beef" and "Mongolian BBQ" is from Taiwan. So are tapioca drinks. Interesting story about the inventor of "Mongolian BBQ". Guy was born in Beijing and fled to Taiwan, and originally wanted to call it "Beijing BBQ" but that wasn't going to fly in Taiwan in the 1950s.
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I saw the Australian series "Ronny Chieng: International Student". They had this place on campus where a lot of the Asian students hung out that had tapioca drinks. One of Ronny's friends is an American student, who says something about trying to experience an authentic Asian culture by being there, consuming tapioca drinks, and watching the programming they had on their TV. The girl behind the counter (who sounds American) says that bubble tea is from Taiwan, the show he's watching is from Taiwan, she's from the Philippines, and Asian culture is not a monolith. So in the end what he's experiencing isn't authentic at all.
I have a general feeling that CEOs and MBAs are out to ruin things and they are paid way, way, way too much for that they really do - wine and dine with the C-suite and customers and stare at Excel or Salesforce all day.I guess there's something to authenticity. I loved Pasta Pomodoro when it was fairly new and owned by Adriano Paganini. I knew a few Italians, and they thought it was good. Then he sold out to a couple of investors (one was Indian-American) and it went south really quickly. I went in once after the new ownership and the messed with the menu so much that I didn't want to go back.
I miss Pasta Pomodoro - it was one of the few chains that got Italian right. I went to the one in El Cerrito and Rockridge from what I remember.
Love me some Chinese food. A guy in my old neighborhood owned a few Chinese strip mall restaurants. Two of his workers lived in the basement of his house. Older Chinese guys, they would come up from the basement from the side yard and wait in the driveway for him to back out of the garage. He’d take them to work at 9 or 10 AM and bring them back at 11 PM, 7 days a week. Then they’d go around the side yard to the walkout basement entry. They never went inside the main entry of his house or the main or 2nd floor. They didn’t own cars or have any visitors. I still know people in that neighborhood and the practice continues daily.
I have a general feeling that CEOs and MBAs are out to ruin things and they are paid way, way, way too much for that they really do - wine and dine with the C-suite and customers and stare at Excel or Salesforce all day.
I miss Pasta Pomodoro - it was one of the few chains that got Italian right. I went to the one in El Cerrito and Rockridge from what I remember.
I wasn't very into Pasta Pomodoro back then but I do agree with you about MBAs ruining things.
They shift the focus of the companies to wall street appeal instead of customer focus, and financial engineering to match formula that fund managers want, and you know most people buying mutual funds aren't really looking at each company in the portfolio and most would just look at growth every quarter and at most PE ratio. This is how good companies are ruined and the fund managers still made out like a bandit.
This is why I only own individual stocks and then maybe large cap Index Funds with low expense ratio.
Love me some Chinese food. A guy in my old neighborhood owned a few Chinese strip mall restaurants. Two of his workers lived in the basement of his house. Older Chinese guys, they would come up from the basement from the side yard and wait in the driveway for him to back out of the garage. He’d take them to work at 9 or 10 AM and bring them back at 11 PM, 7 days a week. Then they’d go around the side yard to the walkout basement entry. They never went inside the main entry of his house or the main or 2nd floor. They didn’t own cars or have any visitors. I still know people in that neighborhood and the practice continues daily.