Loon Wah

Loon Wah
Dim sum for 2: $25

Yuuuuuum. I've been trying to convince Reid, and anybody else to come here for the past year and ahalf. He was a little skeptical at the beginning after reading some online reviews that were not the most *glowing* but after the meal, was a big fan. I am definitely an online review believer too but it's restaurants like these that make me take pause and figure it's better to take a risk and try anything once.

Anyways, we got all the usual favorites- shrimp shu mai, bbq pork buns, shrimp rice noodles, turnip cakes, some kind of shrimp dumpling, and fried shrimp balls. The restaurant also specializes in Mandarin dim sum too. Now before you sputter that there is no such thing as that, just think of the comfort basics like hot sweet soy milk and pan-fried bread. The soy milk was FANTASTIC, better than alot of the ones I've had in Northern China, the pan fried bread was good comfort food, and everything else was in top shape. I have to give a special shout out to the bbq pork buns which are better than most of the other ones I've had in the Bay Area thus far. The only misfire was the weird shrimp dumplings which had some weird stuffing in them, guess we ordered the wrong ones.

Decor is fair to good for a Chinese dim sum restaurant, service was efficient, wish they had done the carts rather than ordering off a menu, but it was nice to get all the plates at once too so we could dig in.

Also just a 20 minute drive from Stanford, closest dim sum restaurant yet, and conveniently located across the street from a Nob Hill which has good organic higher-end food, including the best Cotswald cheese and apple sausages I've ever tasted. End Yummmmmmmmmm.