4. Shanghai House
7.1
3641 Balboa St (btw 37th Ave & 38th Ave), San Francisco, CA
Chinese Restaurant · Outer Richmond · 45 tips and reviews
Roman 🤘: You definitely have to get pickled vegetables with soy bean and shredded pork soup with hand cut noodles. So good and worth it.
Chefs Feed: Charles Phan, chef of The Slanted Door, eats here on his nights off. He loves the Pickled vegetable & shredded pork soup. Read more.
Alex Shkurko: As mentioned, the dry fried chicken wings are spectacular as is the delicious spicy eggplant with shrimp and chicken (pictured).
7. Pica Pica Arepa Kitchen
8.2
401 Valencia St (at 15th St), San Francisco, CA
Arepa Restaurant · Mission District · 136 tips and reviews
SFGate: The menu has expanded as well, moving beyond just the arepas ($8.95) - grilled corn pockets stuffed with fillings like shredded pork, beef or cheese - to include ceviche, salads and platters. Read more.
Bela Pulgar: Arepas, cachapas and empanadas. A bit pricey but the food is worth it. Try the coconut lime water. Can't wait to go back.
Amanda Van West: Maizewich pabellon keeps me coming back! So much deliciousness packed in every bite...and it makes me exceedingly happy that everything is gluten-free here. ---> :) see?
12. Phở 2000
8.4
637 Larkin St (btwn Eddy & Ellis), San Francisco, CA
Vietnamese Restaurant · Tenderloin · 53 tips and reviews
cindy ho: Best pho I’ve had in Tenderloin so far, better than Turtle Tower imo. Rich but not overly salty, and clean tasting broth. Support them!
Shirley Liu: Get the bun rieu (tomato shrimp paste and pork based soup)!
Dennis Zeh Jr: Among the best pho in the TL or SF for that matter. Much better than the overrated Northern-style pho 2 doors down at Turtle Tower.
13. Lai Hong Lounge 荔香小館
8.2
1416 Powell St (Broadway), San Francisco, CA
Chinese Restaurant · North Beach · 45 tips and reviews
Sherry Li: Large portions. Get the tofu skin rolls, tofu tamago, tripe in clay pot, and beef and rice cake.
Luciano Aldana II: I've only had one Peking Duck better than theirs and it was in Downtown Beijing, China!
Amber: The dry fry string beans and the baked BBQ pork buns are worth coming back for again and again
15. Golden Flower
7.6
667 Jackson St, San Francisco, CA
Vietnamese Restaurant · Chinatown · 24 tips and reviews
Tasting Table: Try the Southern Vietnamese-style pho, with its hints of star anise and roast shallots and its panoply of aromatic herbs, or the spring rolls, rolled to order with either shrimp or pork skin: Read more.
Andy Gyr: Great food, staff and prices... Tip well!
River Mars: Must try Pho first!