So I went with my good friend CC to San Gabriel in the LA area. (Jian Jian Restaurant (626-308-9238 301 West Vallue Blvd, #109 San Gabriel, CA nestled in the I wanted to have some xiao lung bao and we got a nice meal (which we couldn't finish) and something to go for under $40! Cheap Asian Food abounds in the Los Angeles area (in this case San Gabriel which has a few Asian malls teamed with dessert, food places to tease your taste buds but not at gut busting prices!).
We got the pork chop rice (I missed the Taiwanese style with the tea egg, mustard greens and the pork) over a bed of lightly seasoned rice. Then we got a tarot cake (but not the traditional Cantonese style but fried and looked like puff pastry) it was good. We had some seaweed (thick and skinny slivers lightly seasoned sweet vinegary dressing) which was delicious. Then we shared the seafood tofu soup--thickened broth (almost egg drop soup consistency) with bits of seafood and egg. We got the eight treasures rice (sticky rice with a variety of ingredients but it was more on the sweet end for me). The Xiao Lung Bao (soup dumplings with crab was good --this shop is known for these dumplings) and with the soy ginger vinegar dipping sauce added a nice tang.
Service was not great. We had to wait a bit to get our bill, order and get the servers attention. It is a small shop with only two servers and less than 10 tables. But it is great for the price and good food. Pretty framed pictures of Shanghai lined the walls in this simple store front.
Food 8 forks (Xiao Lung Bao was a 9 fork) out of 10 forks
We got the pork chop rice (I missed the Taiwanese style with the tea egg, mustard greens and the pork) over a bed of lightly seasoned rice. Then we got a tarot cake (but not the traditional Cantonese style but fried and looked like puff pastry) it was good. We had some seaweed (thick and skinny slivers lightly seasoned sweet vinegary dressing) which was delicious. Then we shared the seafood tofu soup--thickened broth (almost egg drop soup consistency) with bits of seafood and egg. We got the eight treasures rice (sticky rice with a variety of ingredients but it was more on the sweet end for me). The Xiao Lung Bao (soup dumplings with crab was good --this shop is known for these dumplings) and with the soy ginger vinegar dipping sauce added a nice tang.
Service was not great. We had to wait a bit to get our bill, order and get the servers attention. It is a small shop with only two servers and less than 10 tables. But it is great for the price and good food. Pretty framed pictures of Shanghai lined the walls in this simple store front.
Food 8 forks (Xiao Lung Bao was a 9 fork) out of 10 forks
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