Berkeley Chinese Restaurants

Dim Sum

1. Tao Yuen Pastry

Neighborhood: Oakland Chinatown

One of the best walk-in, take out dim sum shops in Oakland. Great selection of buns and steamed dumplings including huge tasty har-gao....

2. The Old Place…

We used to be regulars at Jade Villa in Oakland. When it closed we found this great dim sum place after searching on Yelp. Jade Villa has it detractors but it was good and value priced.   We eat here...

3. King of King…

Neighborhood: East Oakland

This was my first time trying dim sum. It was interesting to see chinese women pushing around a cart with various kind of foods, and there was even a little cart with a deep frier in it so...

4. King Tsin Restaurant

Neighborhood: North Berkeley

Never again will I eat at King Tsin!!!!  The dirty looking floor at the entrance and the sticky tables should have been signs enough for me, but my growling tummy and the "dim sum served all day...

5. Jac's Asian Bistro

East mall -- including the pretty-good-but-ridiculou sly-expensve Daimo, and the rest of the crappy choices inside the mall. (To be fair, the dim sum place Shun Feng is also good.. but that's about...

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Chow Mein

1. Shan Dong Restaurant

Neighborhood: Oakland Chinatown

thing without burning my tongue. Their chow mein with beef, get the thick egg noodles are good. I use the dumpling sauce on top of these noodles too and the noodles are a great texture, chewy and tender...

2. Vien Huong…

Neighborhood: Oakland Chinatown

sharing a table with another unknown family but who cares when that hot bowl of noodle soup or plate of chow fun/mein sitting in front of your salivating palate.  One of the last and only fresh noodle...

3. Crispy Fry

chinese places..   Chow mein with some extra flavored grease on the side please...!! YUM! I just had some leftover.. So satisfying!   Whenever we come back to the bay area from a trip/long drive up north...

4. Silver Dragon…

Neighborhood: Oakland Chinatown

Rice (Good stuff) Combo Chow mein (where was the squid) Clams in Black Bean Sauce (they make it spicy and hot vs salty from the black bean sauce) Eggplant with garlic (I do not like eggplant)  All...

5. Yummy Chinese…

wrong meat filling, thick wonton skin, and completely wrong noodles. Onion pancakes - too thick, not that crispy. The rest of the menu doesn't look promising at all.  Was it $2.50 for "chow mein...

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