Lots of closures since June, including personal (one time) favorite Tasty Place and Old Taro, which I understand had quite a following.
Closures
- 3 Kingdoms (Mountain View) Sichuan hot pot
- Aint Common (Fremont) Taiwanese bento + some Korean items
- Beijing Chef (Newark) Beijing duck
- Bento Pro (San Jose) Taiwanese
- Chefus Kitchen (San-jose) pre-prepared meal service
- Chef Z’s (San Jose) Sichuan & Yunnan (if you asked for it)
- Chopstickerlab (San Bruno) hotpot takeout, plus hot-pot ingredient market
- DNM Hot Pot (SF Inner Richmond) Inner Mongolia
- Dumpling Park (Inner Sunset, SF)
- Embrace Luck (Mountain View) Shanghai
- Full House (Burlingame) Shanghai et al.
- Golden Kitchen (SF Tenderloin) short-lived Sichuan
- Hi Pot (Cupertino) hot pot
- JB King (Pleasanton) dumplings & sheng jian bao stall in food court area of Pacific Pearl Plaza
- LHL Malatang (Sunnyvale)
- Master Gua Malatang and BBQ (San Leandro)
- Mipot (Sunnyvale)
- Miss Shang (Milpitas) eclectic, menu mentions Dai-style, Guizhou, Yunnan, some Jiangnan dishes
- Old Taro (Fremont) Taiwanese
- Old Town Shanghai (Sunnyvale)
- Phoenix Pot (Milpitas)
- Pink Cloud (Berkeley) had jian bing
- Pop Kitchen (Daly City) steam pot
- Szechuan Chinese Restaurant (Fairfield)
- Szechuan Restaurant (San Ramon)
- Taiwan Taste (Saratoga)
- Tasty Place (Millbrae) Sichuan, had strong Northeastern offerings until the chef changed
- Xian Steam Pot and Yakiniku (Milpitas)
- Yangs Braised Chicken Rice (Cupertino)
Local chains
- Dumpling Kitchen (Berkeley) and Dumpling Kitchen Express (Castro Valley), local chain with some Shanghai specialties, leaves Dumpling Kitchen (SF Parkside), SF Castro, SF Noe Valley and a Foster City takeout/frozen food location
- Hunan Mifen (San Mateo) and Hunan Mifen (Milpitas) leaving (Lawrence Sunnyvale, Newark, San Jose, El Camino Real Sunnyvale) same restaurant group as Ping’s Bistro
- Noobowl (San Francisco, Westfield Mall)
- Red Hot Wok (Palo Alto) leaved a Cupertino location
International chains
- Duan Chun Zhen (Fremont) Taiwanese Sichuan chain
- Ten Seconds Rice Noodle Fremont leaves (Dublin, San Leandro, San Mateo) various takes on Yunnan’s Crossing Bridge Rice noodles.
