Everything is integrated into the original post, but for record keeping, here are restaurants that opened in 2016. Please start a report if you’ve been to any! In 2015, 5 restaurants opened and subsequently closed, and 40 opened and are still open.
Hunan
Hunan Cuisine (Fremont)
Ping’s Bistro (Fremont)
Hunan noodle
Yum Noodles (Santa Clara)
Kyrgyzstan cuisine has some overlap with Uyghur
Silk Road (San Francisco)
Shanghai
Jin Jin Gourmet (Sunnyvale)
Shanghai Cuisine (Union City)
Shao kao / skewers
BBQ Alley (Newark)
Sichuan
Pop Pot (San Mateo)
Golden Mountan (Hayward) (used to be Cantonese, w/ Hakka specialties)
Sichuan dry pot
Sizzling Pot King (Sunnyvale)
Celestial Flame (San Francisco)
Taiwanese
Hi Pot (Cupertino)