Lots of changes since mid-December 2024…
Openings
- Dumpling King (SF Inner Richmond) hodgpodge. Dim sum, XLB (regular, kim chi) , SJB, scallion noodles, zha jiang mian. Ooh… piggy and panda bao, which are more common at bigger dim sum than casual places.
- Dumpling Kitchen and Bar (Burlingame) is this related to SF’s Dumpling Union?
- Golden Kitchen (SF Tenderloin) small menu. Sign says Hunan noodles, some Sichuan items
- Teawood Cafe (SF Inner Richmond) Taiwanese
- Kiku Restaurant (Cupertino) Korean Chinese
- Kusan Bazaaar (Milpitas) Uyghur
- Little Seven (Fremont) sauerkraut soup
- Mipot (Sunnyvale) “Northeastern malatang” and some skewers
- Sweet Home Kitchen (San Jose) has been open for a few years. Newly learned-- chef is from Nanjing and they have a menu of Nanjing items.
- Xifu Hotpot (Fremont) Sichuan hot pot
Chain openings
- Home Eat (Milpitas) adds to Santa Clara, San Jose, Fremont, Cupertino, and Sunnyvale locations, from their website , “Established in 2015, Home Eat (previous name - Fashion Wok) has evolved from original, Taiwanese style, boutique small hot pots, to a large-scale integrated full service restaurant that combines Sichuan, Hunan, Taiwan, and independently developed fusion dishes.” A Santa Clara location is forthcoming.
- OX9 Lanzhou Handpulled Noodles (Mountain View). See also Ox 9 Lanzhou Handpulled Noodles (Cupertino , Fremont , Milpitas , San Mateo , Santa Clara
- Tasty Pot (Tasty Pot) in the former location of Henry Hunan. See also Tasty Pot (Berkeley , Concord , Daly City , Dublin , Newark , San Jose, East San Jose) Luke Tsai review
- Zhangliang Malatang (Concord). See also Zhangliang Malatang (Berkeley, Dublin , Mountain View , San Mateo ), international chain also has locations in SoCal.
General Closures
- Dumpling Meets Cajun Seafood (Pleasanton) short-lived rebranding of Mom Dumpling
- Lounge Chinatown (Oakland) same owners of recently reopened Dragon Gate
- Neighborhood Kitchen (Cupertino) had some eclectic soups, which name drop Suzhou, Beijing, Henan, and Longjiang. Breakfast included soy milk, dan bing, jian bing, roujiamo, youtiao, and a pork shao bing.
- New China (Union City) Taiwanese Bento
- Red Dragon (Concord) Sichuan
- Southland Flavor Cafe (Cupertino) Taiwanese
- Super Dish (San Jose) Sichuan, possibly Hunan
- Top Dumpling (Sunnyvale)
- Xiang Yuen Xiao Long Bao (San Leandro) full menu Shanghainese
- Yilan Bento (SF Chinatown/Fidi) Taiwanese
- Yi Xiang Ju (Milpitas) Beijing style hotpot
- Yum Dragon (SF FiDi) was in the International Food Court
- Yunnan Style Rice Noodle (El Cerrito)
Chain Closures
- Easterly (Millbrae) still has other locations (Berkeley , Cupertino ,Santa Clara ) HO HO part of restaurant group that owns Easterly xiaoxiang 眷湘 and Sichuan brand Dongfeng 东风食府)
- Fen , sister restaurant to still open Classic Guilin Rice Noodles (Oakland Chinatown ,Milpitas ) are part of an international chain according to Luke Tsai
- Hunan Mifen (Newark). Remaining is Ping’s Bistro (Fremont #1 and Fremont #2 and San Mateo ) & Ping’s Cupertino & Hunan Impression (San Jose) & more casual Hunan Mifen (Lawrence Sunnyvale , San Mateo , San Jose , El Camino Real Sunnyvale ). Also Shang Cafe (Fremont , San Jose )
- Hu Quan Dai Grilled Fish (Cupertino) a Henan-based international chain founded in 2012.
- Noodles & Things (San Mateo ) Chaozhou. Sister restaurant Porridge & Things (Millbrae) and Special Noodle Soup (Cuptertino) remain.
- OX 9 Milpitas, leaves locations in Mountain View, Cupertino , Fremont , Milpitas , San Mateo , Santa Clara
- Pixiu Mala Hongtang (Oakland) a Korean Malatang place. There’s one in LA Koreatown
