Behold a five month backlog of openings! Besides mentions of Happy Crane and Jiang Xi above, I’d love to hear folks’ experiences at Jiang Nan Delicacy (Milpitas)
Openings
- Bao Bao dumpling (SF Outer Richmond) dumplings, some Shanghainese dishes
- Bun Bun Chinese Food (Fremont) Tianjin buns, dumplings
- Chef (SF Outer Richmond) Sichuan, skewers, hotpot
- Dragon Valley Express (Sunnyvale) Taiwanese
- Dumpling House (Alameda)
- Jiang Nan Delicacy (Milpitas) Suzhou specialist
- Ji Bei Chuan (San Leandro)
- Jin Gege & Yao Yao (San Bruno) Sichuan+
- JP Taiwan Bistro (Cupertino)
- LHL Malatang (Sunnyvale)
- Li’s Knife Cut Noodle (San Mateo)
- Little Skewer (Fremont)
- Lo Si Ding Noodle (San Jose) luosifen, Guangxi
- Meet U BBQ (Cupertino)
- Miss Shang (Milpitas) eclectic, menu mentions Dai-style, Guizhou, Yunnan, some Jiangnan dishes
- Noodle Panda (SF Parkside) Northwestern, hand-pulled noodles
- Revopot (San Jose) hotpot
- Spicy & Cloud (SF Chinatown) Yunnan
- Tai Er Sichuan Cuisine (San Mateo)
- Wang Jia Wei (Union City) Dongbei+
- Xiang Xiang Noodle (Alameda) Sichuan et al., no apparent relation to knife shaved noodle local chain of the same name
Local-sister/international-chain openings
- Dumpling Time (Palo Alto)
- Fish With You (Mountain View)
- Mr Bao Kitchen Chinese Cuisine (Mountain View) Shanghainese
- Noodles Fresh UC Berkeley (Berkeley)
- Paik’s Noodle (San Jose)
- Shihlin Taiwan Street Snacks (Milpitas) Taiwanese
- Tasty Pot (Palo Alto) Taiwanese hot pot
Elsewhere in Northern California
- Qingshu Spicy Hot Pot & Nai Brother Sauerkraut Fish Rancho Cordova of international chain
- Szechuan Chinese Restaurant (Fairfield) From their Yelp page, “Family-owned and originally established in 2018 in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, now proudly serving the Fairfield, California area.”
- X Noodles & Dumplings (Brentwood) hand-pulled noodles
