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Founder Danny Bowien was met with such critical and commercial success when he opened Mission Chinese in 2009 that he soon opened another restaurant in New York City.



The Sesame Chicken is also very popular, featuring a succulent white meat deep-fried to perfection and lightly coated with a spicy sweet sauce.

Ton Kiang features a specific cuisine, "Hakka" cuisine, which makes it a very unique restaurant in terms of Chinese cuisines.

In fact, they take the approach that food is the same as medicine and proudly proclaim that statistics show those who follow a vegetarian diet have longer, healthier lives.





Some feel Mission Chinese has suffered from his absence, but his original dishes mixing traditional Chinese with California innovation still make this restaurant worth visiting.














From the Sour Chili Chicken to the Stir-Fried Pork Jowl, you'll find Chinese-inspired dishes here that you can't find anywhere else. Tom's expert tip : Try the Chicken with Black Bean sauce, which one of the best … Type: Sichuan, Dim Sum.



It's a fun place to take meat-eaters who dislike vegetables, too; their Fried Honeyed Walnuts & Taro Cake will make even the most ardent meat-eater happy.

Most Popular Dishes: Shrimp and cilantro dumplings, chongqing chicken.

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Great Chinese food can be found all across America, but San Francisco is renowned for its wide variety of amazing Chinese restaurants.

The most popular item by far is the original dry-fried chicken wings, but other patron favorites include the shrimp and leek dumplings, hot and sour soup, string beans and black bean sauce noodles.

Begin with a fresh spring roll and chicken wonton soup or even beef and fish-ball soup. Located near Ninth and Irving, the energetic heart of the Sunset District, a visit to San Tung can include some of the bars and other nightlife hotspots of this underappreciated but vital neighborhood.On the hunt for top-notch Chinese food?







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Hakka cuisine (regional fare influenced by Indian dishes) is the restaurant's signature, but you'll also find a variety of other styles. Although you won't find extravagant decor at Dragon Well, you'll be thrilled by the great food.

Food people in the know are going to tell you that if you want the best Chinese food in the Bay Area, these days you have to leave the city.

A real crowd-pleaser is the Tea-Smoked Duck, which is steamed then wok-smoked with Pu Erh tea and served with hand-made buns and hoisen sauce.



Yank Sing has over 100 varieties of deem sum (with some 60 varieties served fresh everyday). Lincoln Park

But get there early - the line forms quickly at this restaurant that's especially popular with Mission neighborhood locals.If you've been up and down the alleys of Chinatown, and the egg rolls and dim sum are all starting to taste the same, drop by Lucky Creation for a different take on Chinese.




Diners particularly love the chicken with orange peel, prawns with honey walnuts, pot stickers and, of course, hot and sour soup.





Owned and operated by the Yuan family, the restaurant has stayed remarkably consistent over the eyars.Dragon Well creates comfort through simplicity.