San FranciscoRestaurants

Chinese restaurants in San Francisco

  1. A

    Chef Jia's

    All three of the sauces on the menu here make nostrils flare in eager anticipation: spicy black bean sauce, tangy brown vinegar sauce, and savory-salty oyster sauce. Mix and match your choice with standbys of chicken, pork, and squid and/or green beans, eggplant, or yams. Dishes are generous to the point of embarrassing, but don't neglect the sublime onion cakes with peanut sauce.

    reviewed

  2. B

    Yuet Lee

    With a radioactive green paint job and merciless fluorescent lighting, this so-hideous-it’s-cool seafood diner isn’t for first dates, but for drinking buddies and committed couples who have nothing to hide and are willing to share outstanding batter-dipped salt-and-pepper calamari and tender roast duck.

    reviewed

  3. C

    Wing Lee

    Ha gow (shrimp dumplings) are the perennial favorites here, with an order of three for a couple of bucks - but at these prices, you can show some love for dumplings filled with shrimp and chives, chicken bao (buns), and vegetable-pork pot stickers for under around US$10. Sit down at the school-cafeteria-style communal tables and enjoy - and pssst, pass the hot sauce.

    reviewed