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Walls plastered with Polaroids and faded Cantopop posters set the mood at this Chinatown restaurant, where the cooking is as high-energy as the room. The menu is compact Cantonese with a loose, playful hand: claypot rice with bacon and sausage, mapo tofu spaghetti that shouldn't work but clearly does. Reservations vanish fast, and the walk-in line forms before doors open. Bon Appétit and Esquire both named it among America's best new restaurants in 2024.
The awards strongest first
- Food & Wine Squab · Best Dishes Our Editors Ate This Year
- Chinese Restaurant Awards Elite 12 United States
- Esquire Restaurant of the Year · The Best New Restaurants in America
- Bon Appétit America's Best New Restaurants
- The New York Times 2024 · The Restaurant List
- Eater Restaurant of the Year
- San Francisco Chronicle #1 · Top 100 Restaurants in the Bay Area
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- San Francisco Chronicle Best Chinese food and restaurants in the Bay Area
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in San Francisco Right Now
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best New Restaurant
- Condé Nast Traveler The 25 Best Restaurants in San Francisco for Casual Diners, Twelve-Course Tasting Counters, and Late-Night Eats
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in San Francisco
- The 50 The 50 Discovery
One number, weighted & current 91
How we scoreThe dishes from the writeups
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Fried squab
“The fried squab is a must, arriving impossibly crisp and deeply savory, while the claypot rice with Chinese sausage bits and smoky bacon delivers the kind of rich, craveable comfort you think about for days afterward.”
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Mapo tofu spaghetti
“And then there’s the now-signature mapo tofu spaghetti: a collision of Italian and Sichuan influences that somehow tastes like it was always meant to exist.”
Condé Nast Traveler -
Xo escargot
“Nuggets of XO escargot are tucked into shells blanketed with a buttery sheen, served with pillowy milk bread.”
The New York Times, 2024
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