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A couple of things I’ve noticed while doing my “rounds” recently.
Coco Bomb is now replacing Juewei:
Well, while doing a recent takeout revisit to Eastern Dynasty, I noticed that the “coming soon” sign over what used to be Juewei had changed. Back in March, I noted that LA Hot Duck was replacing Juewei, but I guess that’s gone awry. Now it says that Coco Bomb….which I believe has a location in Linda Vista is replacing Juewei.
On my most recent shopping trip to Nijiya, I noticed a “Under New Ownership” sign over what was….for a short time Super Mario’s…and for what was for a longer time Palomino’s. Kind of a bummer….
So, it looks like the La Perla empire is expanding. We’ll see how this goes; because it seems, at least to me that La Perla has been quick to open….then suddenly close their shops….
3860 Convoy St. Suite 10 San Diego, CA 92111
Gourmet Artisan has closed:
It had been a while since I’d been to Gourmet Artisan…so I thought I’d order a sandwich; but strangely, their website wasn’t working. So, I thought I’d drive past to see what was up….well…it seems that they have closed.
I guess I shouldn’t be overly surprised as the last time I visited, they were using their location as a pseudo commercial kitchen of sorts. Still, it’s a place that I had visited on a regular basis before….but I guess just not often enough.
I’m still kinda “feeling it” from all the recent driving so just a quick post on some recent takeout revisits.
Roast Duck from Noble Chef:
I was in Balboa Crest Shopping Center checking on something, when I decided to pop into Noble Chef to see what roast duck prices were like. It had been a while since we’d been to Noble Chef. The prices and our visits to Eastern Dynasty have basically kept us away. The last time I’d had roast duck from Noble Chef it was a whopping $28 for a half duck! What the “duck” is going on? I was curious so I popped my head in…..
And to my surprise; on this day the half roast duck was $20.95. Like the same price as Eastern Dynasty. Hmmm……I’m wondering if there’s some competitive pricing going on now?
So, here’s what it looked like.
The skin was nice and firm and most of the fat had been rendered off nicely.
The meat was toothsome and moist-juicy. It did seem a bit short in flavor, really lacking in the five-spice/anise tones, sweetness, though it was nice and savory. Also, the duck seemed a bit leaner then on previous visits.
Still, perhaps our favorite roast duck in San Diego……I guess I’ll keep popping in and doing price checks for duck. The other dishes here just seem over-priced still.
The Noble Chef 6159 Balboa Avenue San Diego, CA 92111
I’m always up to try some roast duck if anyone has a current favorite!
The Tacos La Chorreada Truck:
On a recent hot afternoon; the Missus just wanted a light dinner and figured three tacos from the La Chorreada Truck would fit the bill. I actually had not visited since the truck moved two lots over back in November. So, JJ and I walked on over. I ordered my tacos “para lleva” and JJ and I went to have a cerveza at BHT. We then returned for my tacos.
They actually have a pretty nice sitting area set-up now.
Anyway, here’s our taco threesome…..
From left to right. Lengua…nice and waxy, fatty-beefiness. The cabeza…the best of the bunch on this day, very beefy, great with the salsa verde. And the smoky-savory-lightly spicy chorizo and the “neba-neba” of the nopales.
This was a nice and light dinner for us. It fit the bill since we weren’t hungry in the least on this day.
The Tacos La Chorreada Truck 3040 Clairemont Dr San Diego, CA 92117
During my revisit to Chicago Fire Grill, I noticed a fairly large turnover of eateries at Renaissance Towne Center. I had Boker Kitchen on my “list”, but never made it before they closed. It’s now going to be a location of Mr Moto’s Pizza. The place that did catch my eye was the business that replaced the Rubio’s in the strip mall. A location of Joyee….which I would not be too interested in; but instead of being Joyee Dumpling House, this is a Joyee Noodle House. I’d actually been to the former location in 99 Ranch Market, which I visited once and had some really bad Jiaozi and Baozi…it was a one-and-done, so I never did a post on the place….though you can read about Cathy’s visit here. Eventually that location closed, with most locations located further North. I was actually going to do a visit to the Poway location, but was stopped dead in my tracks…..you can see why looking at the first photo of this post.
What I did notice is that this location had some outdoor seating and also that they opened at 9am from Friday thru Sunday. This parking lot can get kinda nuts, so that gave me the chance of easily finding parking.
So, I returned on a Sunday morning at around 10am with JJ and easily found parking. I walked over to the doorway and a nice young man greeted me. I pointed to JJ and a table and he smiled and gave me the thumbs up! And soon brought me the menu and some treats for JJ! Talk about getting started on the “right foot”, huh?
There’s an interesting Breakfast Menu which skews toward Taiwanese style, with Dan Bing and the like on the menu. But, this is Joyee “Noodle House”……
So, I ordered the “Signature” Beef Noodle Soup ($15.99). This is a clear broth version.
Which is known for having slices of daikon in it!
Awesome amount of cilantro, which helped since the broth didn’t have much anise – five spice tones. It was also not very beefy. Decent fat content, but super high on the sodium scale…..overly salty for my taste.
It looked like beef shank was used; the proper cut for this type of beef noodle soup, but unlike other versions I’ve had, the slices of beef was tough and dry.
The noodles were run-of-the-mill…seemed like something out of a package; lacking in “body” and texture.
I didn’t care for this much……
But, it was a good thing I ordered another dish; which I’d seen on the menu of other Joyee, but never ordered; the Salt and Smoked Duck ($19.99). I’m thinking that because of the name; this is more of a typical Taiwanese style smoked duck which is salted and rubbed with Shaoxing and other seasonings and held overnight.
While the skin wasn’t crisp and this was a bit on the saltier side; I enjoyed the winey-anise-slightly sweet tones along with the light smokey flavor. You can even see a sort of smoke ring on the meat.
Even though it looked dry; I enjoyed the toothsome texture. And when crisped up a bit in the air fryer…with the fat rendering slightly…well, the Missus really enjoyed the leftovers.
They also were so nice to JJ!
So, a week later, the Missus sent me a text asking me to pick up some duck on the way home. I went and got a couple of other dishes.
I’m glad we did takeout; you’ll find out below.
The Duck this time was even better. Deeper flavor; not as salty, more moist as well.
I saw that Popcorn Chicken was just $11.99. So I ordered it. The portion was quite large for the price.
I opened and took a look and a taste in the car…..while there flavor was fairly spot on; white pepper, a hint of spice, anise tones, perfect amount of salt….the texture was gummy and the coating lacked crispness. I was happy we were doing takeout, because I could fix the texture….you know how, right?
Yep, I removed all the fried basil and it went into the air fryer. Looks much better, huh? Much more crisp-crunchy and for some reason it seemed more moist as well. While not as good as the version at Soup du Jour, it’s cheaper and there’s that duck too.
I had also gotten the Bamboo with Pork ($16.99), which was another generous portion.
But was nothing special. While the julienned slices of pork were decently velveted, there were some pieces of the bamboo that were really hard and fibrous. The seasoning was a basic soy sauce based stir fry, it could have used more overall flavor.
Still, the Missus enjoyed that duck and I’ve figured out how to heat that popcorn chicken, The prices are quite reasonable as well. Though, I’m still not sure if I should retry the jiaozi? What do you think?
Joyee Noodle House(UTC) 8935 Towne Centre Drive San Diego, CA 92122 Current Hours: Mon – Thurs 11am-9pm Fri – Sun 9am-9pm
After our terrible revisit to Spicy City, the Missus wanted something “dependable”. Because the weather was still on the “cooler” side, She wanted “The Fish” (translation – Fish With You), versus “Da Fish” ( HFS). I now have the translation down! It had been a few months since our last visit so we headed on over.
We arrived at around 1145 and the place was empty of customers dining in; but there was a steady flow of takeout orders.
It was nice to know that our usual here, the Signature Suancai and Fish is still priced at $26.95. And one bowl of rice per person is still free…..I mean a bowl of rice is now like two bucks at most Chinese restaurants these days.
It seemed to have less chilies, which makes it easier for us when we take the leftovers home, as we remove the chilies to limit the crescendo of heat. It’s still spicy, though the Sichuan Peppercorns came thru a lot more on this visit. The fish still tender, there was a decent amount of suancai hidden in the broth. As mentioned in my previous post. We make sure to consume all the fish and take the leftovers home. We add tofu and shirataki….it’s almost better than the fish!
This is a nice lunch for $26.95, with leftovers for another meal.
There’s one observation we made during our visit. We noticed a buffet set-up against the wall.
The “red flag alert” went thru my head. While leaving the Missus asked if Fish With You was going to start serving Hot Pot and the young man said yes. They are starting in the next few weeks. Now, you might be wondering what the issue is. We’ve noticed that when businesses are starting to fail, they’ll often start going “off concept” doing things like hot pot. Which is what Juewei did before they closed. I’m hoping that Fish With You will stick around…….
Fish With You 3904 Convoy St. #101 San Diego, CA 92111
After our pleasant revisit to Szechuan Chef, the Missus was wondering how some of the other Sichuan style restaurants in San Diego were. So, I took a look at my “Big List” and oh my….we hadn’t been back to Spicy City since 2015! Like I said, we’d pretty much given up on Sichuan food in San Diego. Anyway, we thought we’d give Spicy City a try and headed on over.
When we first moved to San Diego in 2001, if I recall, the sign read “Beijing” Spicy City. Basically claiming to serve Beijing style Sichuan cuisine. Still, it was the only game in town for anything resembling traditional Sichuan food…until Ba Ren came along in 2003. Ba Ren really changed the game for us, we didn’t need to head over to the SGV for Sichuan. Of course Ba Ren closed in 2012. I have such great memories of the place. Well, enough of that. Spicy City has been around since 1997 or so, but has gone thru several ownership changes. My first blog post on Spicy City was when they went thru an ownership change in 2008. I know for certain that they went thru at least one new set of owners as of 2014. But have lost track since then. And viola! It’s April of 2026 and we’re eating at Spicy City!
Interesting to note that while Convoy Pointe Plaza was very busy…folks jostling for parking spots. I actually had to park on Engineer Road, Spicy City had only six tables filled by the time we left. And also of note…..we were the only Asian’s dining here!
I actually overheard two of the other tables ordering as they arrived after us. Stuff like Walnut Shrimp, Beef Broccoli, and Beef Chow Mein were being ordered. What the heck?
Also, the Missus for some reason wanted the Twice Cooked Pork with Garlic Sprouts, which they were out of. But they did have the “Homestyle” version ($16.99). In my own somewhat cynical mind, I think the “homestyle” means whatever they have on hand? Anyway, this was terrible.
The Hui Guo Rou, which should be somewhat chewy, was super tough and lacked flavor. Usually, in the Sichuan versions of this dish there would be some spicy and savoriness…this was just plain bland…where was the doubian, black bean, garlic, ginger?
The best dish of the meal was the Pork Intestine in Dry Pot ($16.99) and this still lacked the “ma-la”, the numbing spice typical of Sichuan cuisine.
At least it wasn’t bland. But the intestine was really tough and rubbery. Very little spice encountered. The best item in this dish were the soybean sprouts on the bottom of the dry pot. At least it had flavor and a nice crunchy texture.
I really wanted the Ko Shui Ji (“Mouthwatering Chicken” – $15.99) so I ordered that. For some reason it was the last dish to arrive. When it did…..well, it really gave me pause….. What the heck?
The portion size was humongous. It was covered with a thick layer of sesame paste which overwhelmed the dish, really blocking out the spice, acidity.
For your reference; this is what it looked like back in 2015:
The amount of chicken was huge, large dry slices.
This was a pretty disappointing meal…an “oh-fer-three”. The service was fine, at least the really rude guy who used to work here isn’t around anymore it seems. You know, I wasn’t expecting Mountain House or even Barshu. Just some solid Sichuan would have been fine.
But as it is; per the Missus, we’re done exploring anymore Sichuan in San Diego for now.
Spicy City 4690 Convoy St. #107 San Diego, CA 92111 Current Hours: Mon – Thurs 11am – 830pm Fri – Sun 11am – 9pm
Leaving Avila Beach, it was almost a seven hour drive to South Lake Tahoe. We had enjoyed our time in Tahoma during a previous road trip, but there weren’t dog friendly places to stay or eat in the area, so we thought we’d stay in South Lake Tahoe. I had wanted to book The Landing for our entire 5 night stay, but I wasn’t able to get accommodations there until Sunday. So, for the Friday – Saturday night stay, I got us a room in Forest Suites Resort, which was basically across the street from the very touristy Heavenly Village. We arrived and checked in…our room was on like the third floor.
Since it was almost five pm, we decided to head on out and find somewhere to eat. I recalled seeing a Chinese restaurant when doing my research…and by this time, the Missus wanted some Asian food already. We walked thru Heavenly Village.
And up Lake Tahoe Boulevard and saw Dumpling 85 in the Chateau at the Village Shopping Center.
We crossed the street and noted that they were pup friendly. They led us to a table and the Missus placed our order.
We saw the XLB and jiaozi on the way in and they didn’t look real good. We had breakfast at Avila Lighthouse Suites and heated up the leftover Beef Bourguignon so we just got the Stir Fried Green Beans and the Pork Baozi.
The Stir Fried Green Beans were undercooked and underseasoned.
Super hard and in need of more savory components. Almost raw…..
The Pork Baozi was strange. The “bun” portion had almost a chalky texture, really weird, that gave way to a soggy doughiness. The bottoms were almost like crackers!
The filling was fine, if on the chewy side. At least it was porky.
Dumpling 85 4125 Lake Tahoe Blvd. South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150
The Missus went back to the room, while I took JJ to the corner of Heavenly Village Way and the South Lake Brewing Company Libation Lounge.
They had outdoor seating, so I walked in, ordered myself a Pilsner and had a seat outside.
I picked up my beer when ready and enjoyed the crisp, clean Pilsner.
South Lake Brewing Co. â The Libation Lodge Restaurant & Brewery 4000 Lake Tahoe Blvd. Suite 26 South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150
After which we walked along Heavenly Village Way which led us back to our accommodations. I could see the Heavenly Mountain Gondola passing right over our hotel.
We slept well.
The Forest Suites Resort has a free breakfast, which is nice. We just ran over and got some yogurt and stuff, before walking to our morning destination.
One great thing about where we stayed is that basically across the street is the entrance to Van Sickle Bi-State Park. We just walked along the road, crossing the border into Nevada.
A bit further up the road was the Van Sickle Rim Trail. A nice, almost 7 mile hike, with a 1,000 foot elevation gain. And of course, JJ handled it much better than I did.
Nice views…..
And even a waterfall along the way.
It was nice to have access to a trail in walking distance from our accommodations.
Returning to our room, we decided on a return visit to My Thai which was a ten minute drive away. We had been pleasantly surprised when we had dined here back in 2023. We weren’t sure if they were dog friendly and thought we could do takeout. The host was really funny, he said we could bring JJ, but there was a “two bark” rule in place! Lol! There was an Australian Shepherd having lunch with his family there as well.
We ordered our two favorite dishes from our precious visit. The Lao Style Papaya Salad, which we got medium spicy. Just as before, this was quite legit, from the salted crab to the funky fermented flavors.
All balanced out by the acidic tones and tomatoes. The shredded papaya was crisp and refreshing. I enjoyed the chicharrons as well.
We also got the Basil Duck.
Which was a bit sweeter than on our last visit, but still nice anise-savory tones. The duck was chewy, but flavorful. There was much more “meat” this time as on our previous visit it was mostly skin and fat.
It seemed like they used an onigiri mold to plate the rice, don’t you think?
The rice was on the drier side, but fragrant.
All in all, a nice lunch.
My Thai Cuisine 2108 Lake Tahoe Blvd. South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150
Recently, FOY “XiÄng JiÄo” messaged me, letting me know that she believed Szechuan Chef had been improving over recent months. I’d pretty much given up on Sichuan cuisine in SD, but heck, it had been almost seven years since my last visit….so, I convinced the Missus that the time was right for a revisit.
Strangely, the parking lot of Convoy Village Shopping Center was basically empty when we arrived for lunch. Thus, in stark contrast to other locations on Convoy, parking was a breeze.
After being seated, we ordered four items. After our meal, we took a look at what we had ordered and noticed something quite “interesting”. We ended up ordering a couple of the recommended dishes and a few more. In terms of price, this seemed much cheaper than our recent meals at Cantonese style restauraurants.
First up, the Pork Intestines with Pickled Vegetable ($19.99). One of my favorite dishes at Eastern Dynasty is a version of this dish. And personally, I prefer that version, which is strangely much more tangy-sour than this version. Also, the intestine here, while being quite strong in the savory-“bungy” category, the intestines were overly rubbery, lacking in that initial resistance, followed by a creamy texture.
The preserved vegetable was very mild in flavor. Not a terrible dish, but perhaps I should have ordered the dry fried version?
The Fish Fragrant (yuxiang) Eggplant (aka Eggplant with Garlic Sauce on the menu – $14.99) was much too sweet.
The eggplant was also quite mushy in texture. Not a favorite of ours.
Next up was a dish that “XJ” recommended that I’ve ordered several times, the Beef Tendon with Pickled Peppers ($21.99).
So, this was better than what we’ve had before, but it still didn’t bring on as much sour-tangy-spicy tones as we like. We enjoyed the good amount of garlic though. And the tendons were so very….well tender! They almost melted in your mouth. I could just imagine this in a bowl of pho! We kept wondering how the chef prepped these to make it so buttery smooth? It did lack the spicy though…so we may look at another tendon dish if we return.
There was one dish that brought the heat and turned out to be our favorite of the meal; the Pork Trotters Hot Pot ($19.99) which was placed over a heating element at the table. The first thing to hit you when this dish arrives is the pungent-earthy-“BO” of cumin. Great when emanating from a dish….not so great when exuding from the person sitting next to you on a flight….can you tell I’m still traumatized by that???
This was spicy stuff….good ma-la going on here. The skin on the trotters was very soft and tender. The potatoes seemed to have easily absorbed the essence of the chilies, especially the one’s on the bottom. The Missus, who grew up eating cauliflower in Northern China loved it in this dish. We did enjoy this; though the leftovers were super spicy the next day.
Overall, including one order of rice, the bill came out to be $78 before tip and taxes, making it cheaper than any of the Chinese dining experiences we’ve had recently. We did notice that every protein based dish we ordered was basically offal. Could that be why? Anyway, we may return in a bit. And I need to thank “XJ” who helped to get us out of our Chinese dining “rut”.
Szechuan Chef 4344 Convoy St San Diego, CA 92111 Current Hours: Mon – Thurs 11am – 3pm, 5pm – 9pm Fri – Sun 11am – 330pm, 5pm – 9pm
We’re currently out on the road with JJ, but I thought I’d share some photos from a recent visit to Diamond Palace with the Missus. While DP is our current favorite Dim Sum in San Diego; it comes with a matching price tag…even more expensive than the recently opened Hong Kong Kitchen & Dim Sum which is in Kearny Mesa! Since I’d done a pretty recent post; I’ll keep the verbiage to a minimum.
Anyway, as before, it was all the stuffs with shrimp that hit the spot…in fact, most everything we ordered had shrimp.
The Pan Fried Shrimp and Chive Cake was much better this time around. The wrapper was tender with a bit of crunch and pull, but wasn’t overly chewy. Great shrimp and light pungency-oniony tones.
For us, the Shrimp Siu Mai is a favorite.
Lot’s of plump, oceany-savory-sweet shrimp. Mild crunch……the wrapper was fairly tender.
The wrapper on the Har Gow is still a bit too thick, but the shrimp makes up for it.
A new favorite is the Shrimp and Chive Crystal Dumplings.
Now, the 64,000 dollar question……what did this cost? Can you guess? I guess this is where they would cue up the countdown song in Jeopardy?
Well, can you imagine…$75 for dim sum? Ouch! I mean, this is Diamond Palace, not Sea Harbour? But such are prices these days!
Diamond Palace 3993 54th St. San Diego, CA 92105
I know “FOY” Dereck was interested in checking this place out. I’m wondering if you made it here yet?
I had to smile when “FOY” Dereck just commented on my revisit to Taste of Hunan which I did almost a month ago. We have already revisited yet again! But, since I’d recently done a post, I didn’t take any photos of that visit. There was one item on the menu that we noticed for the first time. ToH actually sells La Rou, the Hunan cured and smoked pork by weight! The Missus asked the always friendly Server about that and She was told that it is shipped to ToH from Hunan Province! They don’t always have it for sale, but she went to check and said they had one piece. So, here’s where it gets interesting…..you have to purchase the entire piece, they will not portion it for you. The price is $25.95 per pound. Not cheap, but you really don’t use a lot of La Rou per dish. We really like the La Rou ToH uses, so we decided to get it. The piece came in at 2 pounds! The woman was so nice, instructing us to freeze what we don’t use.
In case you’re wondering what 2 pounds of La Rou looks like.
And that my friends is a full sized cleaver!
What I did is divide up the LA Rou into four, almost equal sized portions, let’s just say a half pound or so.
I kept one portion for current use and the other three went into the freezer. There’s a hard “rind” at the bottom of the piece. When first using the piece, I’ll remove the rind, which also had a good fat layer. This comes in handy later….. We found that one piece can make about 4 dishes…so let’s say about a quarter pound of la rou….and that’s a generous amount!
So, of course first up was what we’ve been making a lot of recently, Clay Pot Rice. Instead of using duck fat or drippings to coat the nabe, we use the pork rind and melt the fat off the piece to lube the baby up!
The Missus loves La Rou with Celtuce (i.e. Chinese Lettuce – WÅsÇn/WÅjù).
So, I cut some fairly thin slices along with the Celtuce.
Adding some dried chilies, garlic, etc….. A very simple dish. No photo of the final product, because as soon as it hit the table, the Missus set out to devour it!
I’ve made a couple of other dishes since then, the Missus loves La Rou with Chinese Celery. Here’s a photo of the La Rou stir fried with Chinese Cauliflower (which I mentioned in the post).
I used Fresno Chilies, dried chili de arbol, and fermented chilies for this. I did a low heat stir fry of the cauliflower first, removing it from the wok, then going for it with the other ingredients and adding the cauliflower back in later.
Anyway….it’s been fun, since the frozen La Rou you get at 99 Ranch Market is horrible!
Some other stuffs……
I needed to use up the last of my beans from Rancho Gordo and only had those huge Royal Corona Beans left. So, I made up a pot of it.
I took half of the beans and made a dish with Merguez, Harissa, and chard from the yard! The Missus took most of it with Cous Cous for lunch and we also had some on toast, which was quite good!
When the weather recently warmed up, I went and made marinated beans with the remainder.
The beans mainly with lemon juice/zest, EVOO, sun dried tomatoes, red onion, garlic, and Italian Parsley. Nice and refreshing!
And just for the fun of it, I recently made this as well.
You know what it is, right? Took me back to small kid time!
So, in part 1 of my posts on the newly opened Hong Kong Kitchen & Dim Sum, I went over two visits, that were basically solo because the Missus just didn’t think the place was worth a visit. So, after some not so bad food, I thought the Missus would be all for a visit. Well, She was not! Calvin however, whom I hadn’t had lunch with in a while was up for it! So we met right at the 10am opening time. Seems that Calvin, who lives in Scripps Ranch and has roots in the SGV has been down on the d-sum North of the 8 in town for a while. So, I thought we’d have some fun….he’d pick 4 dim sum items and I’d go with two mains and we’d have some fun.
So, in terms of the dim sum, in ranking from first to worst.
Scallop Dumplings ($9.50). These were by far the best items I’ve had at HK Kitchen thus far.
The wrappers were adequately thick, with a nice mild stretch to them. The scallops were tender and sweet; this was quite good.
Second was the Siu Mai, which I covered in my previous post. This was even better as you can clearly see….
The filling much more tender, decent savory-porky tones, the wrapper tender as well.
Took a bit into the Cheong Fun ($8.50) that Calvin ordered and went “what the heck”? Calvin had ordered the Char Siu version. I guess I expected the shrimp version.
So this was a bit too sweet for my taste. The rice roll was fine; perhaps a bit too brittle. The sauce was overly salty for my taste.
The Turnip Cake with XO Sauce ($14) was a fail. Both of us lamented the lack of the savory-umami tones and mild spice provided by XO sauce.
In fact, there seemed to be a total lack of the savory punch needed for this. The turnip cakes interior was mushy and this was a bit on the greasy side. Which reminds me that the Missus wants me to make my own XO sauce and it’s been a while since I’ve made turnip cake at home.
It was fairly tender; though the sauce was on the sweeter side. The sugar snap peas were nice and crisp.
Of only I knew about the XO Sauce when I ordered the Shrimp with XO Sauce ($25).
While the shrimp was adequately cooked, fairly tender, with a slight sweet-savoriness; there was a lack of XO in this dish. Thus not fulfilling the umami potential of the dish.
Still, this was a decent meal. Calvin mentioned that he’d definitely return for the dim sum here….looking out into the parking lot, we noticed that it had filled by 1115! So, if you’re thinking of going for dim sum; I’d suggest getting there early. You can read about Soo’s recent visit here.
Hong Kong Kitchen & Dim Sum 5375 Kearny Villa Rd. San Diego, CA 92123 Current Hours: Daily 10am – 9pm
