Two Shanghai closures
- Gourmet Noodle House on Geary (according to yelp, plus it didn’t look open when I drove by the other day)
- Shanghai Gourmet (Walnut Creek).
Open
- Yummy Chengdu (Pleasanton) Sichuan hot pot
- Love My Buns (San Jose) already reported about in another thread, where @sck learned that they have a Tianjin chef from the chain Gou Bu Li and XLB chef from Shanghai, and that the owners also own Hunan Cuisine 四姐川湘
Also, someone on Chinese language Facebook group SFHappyeaters reports that Yang Kong Street, a US-based restaurant Taiwanese-ish/dim sum seeming to aim for a Din Tai Fung vibe, has opened in a MIlpitas mall.
According to a Portland paper, "Yong Kang Street Noodle and Dumpling House is a franchise of a Las Vegas-founded dim sum spot with locations in the New York area, conceived by food court management company HIG Management "
Looks like they have Franchises in Houston, and the northeast too, and the locations seem to have some autonomy. The restaurant’s Vegas Facebook page shows DTF-level XLB, but Yelp photos show machine-made ones, cracked and spilling into metal cups. Will the local one be up to Milpitas standards?
