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June 20, 2017, 6:33am
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https://www.yelp.com/biz/chef-cho-fremont
Why did they close the SJ location?
I haven’t explored the Taiwanese scene much after the craze of Mama Liu/ Chen/ and some other ones I don’t remember a few years ago, which were somewhat average. What other Taiwanese joint serve up decent food?
And what do you think about these, and Shihlin?
I explored several Taiwanese restaurants for an article I wrote for the now-defunct web publication “Real Eats” about stinky tofu — a real passion of mine. Anyway, I think the article is lost in cyberspace now. If I ever get my act together enough to set up a personal website, maybe I’ll republish it.
But in the course of researching that piece, by far my favorite place was Joy Restaurant (5 Joy) in Foster City, which doesn’t label itself as Taiwanese per se, but serves the kind of Taiwanese-i…
I finally made it here for lunch after hearing and reading various reports. Their menu is huge and most previous reports mentioned their noodle dishes. Not in the mood for noodles, I picked fried shishamo after learning that each order had 10 (and not the measly 3 that other places offer). They were huge with a tasty salt and pepper batter.
Also ordered clam soup, something I grew up eating but never see on menus here. Broth was light but flavorful, the soup had bits of napa cabbage and mushroo…
