We came on a weekday for dinner and there was no wait. You scan the QR code at your table and order…read moreon your phone as a party. It seemed like there was only one worker attending the tables so sometimes we waited a bit for him to come out to request for something but he was still very efficient. Items ordered: - Combo D Shaxian noodles with peanut sauce and Shaxian wonton soup: The wonton soup was simple but amazing. Definitely a soup you would want to eat on a cold or sick day. The noodles were covered in peanut sauce and also a simple dish, but we waited too long to mix the noodles and eat them so the noodles ended up sticking together. However, the worker was kind enough to bring us a new dish and advised us to mix immediately while the noodles were still hot. - Shaxian steamed pork dumplings: I liked how the dumplings were leaf shaped and filled with pork and cabbage. Solid dumplings overall and I would get again. - Boiled fish fillets with lemon pickled cabbage: A little spicy but great flavor overall and sour from the lemon pickled cabbage. Comes with a lot of fish and glass noodles.

Yikes! Did I go to the same restaurant as these 5 and 4-star reviews?!…read more We arrived mid-day on a Saturday. A few others were at tables but it was a mostly empty restaurant. There were a few staff running around keeping the front of the house so it wasn't a matter of work force but it took almost an hour to get steamed broccoli as the first of our order to come out. Not sautéed or cooked with finesse. While we were waiting for any food to come out, a couple of tables were seated after us but served their whole order while we waited for a dish to arrive at ours. Then came beef pan fried dumplings which were burnt on the bottom after waiting almost an hour for anything to come. We got a couple more dishes before we finally called it and just got the check. Flavors were bland, nothing stood out as delicious in flavor, texture, or overall bite. Even the vinegar used for soup dumplings wasn't the right type of vinegar. Service was slow, the food was subpar especially for the time it took to get anything on the table. Total waste of time, energy, and opportunity. Never again. The whole vibe felt like a quick service fast food experience rather than what we hoped to get out of it. Not for me clearly.

The skewers were amazing. Not as spicy as I was expecting it to be but it's not a bad thing. Quail…read moreeggs were really good and the Choy.

Didn't have to wait on a Sunday at 5:30 but once we settled in and started getting our food at 6…read morethe waitlist started. We were hoping to be seated in one of the tables with the curtains but all were taken :( would have been cool though! The wooden aesthetic of this place transports you to Asia and the servers are both canto/mandarin speaking. Definitely recommend the beef and lamb skewers and enoki mushrooms. Beef was tender, lean, and nicely charred with their signature spicy cumin seasoning. Lamb was not gamey and tender as well. Mushroom also had the spicy seasoning but still light enough to cleanse our palate. We also ordered the Taiwan sausage, chicken gizzard, beef tongue and salad. It was the perfect amount for the 2 of us and fairly priced at about $30pp. All the skewers were cooked for us yet still stayed hot since it was placed on the hot plate. Dynasty BBQ definitely satisfied our skewer craving and we'll come back or even try their other 2 South Bay locations!

Hands down the best Cheung Hing around. Dining here is good because the location is a fair size,…read moreclean and bright. Service is always consistent and the servers are friendly. Recently I stopped to pick-up dinner with the plan to have leftovers. I called my order in and was quoted 40 minutes for my order to be ready. My order consisted of salted fish and chicken fried rice (this location has the best around SF and the peninsula), bitter melon beef, chicken chow mein, Thai style fried vermicelli (my favorite dish here), salt and pepper chicken wings. We also received a complimentary bbq pork fried rice. Everything was fantastic and we had plenty of leftovers for a few days.

San Mateo location, my usual favorite Chinese food…read more Won ton soup - might've been the first time I've ordered it here. Felt like having won ton soup to help a cold and cough. Big won ton filled w pork and shrimp. Bok choy Broth not much flavor, in a separate container since this was a take-home order. Curry Beef Stew I've never had Curry beef stew before, prefer chicken, curry, but for some odd reason, I decided to order this dish. It was underwhelming and I won't order it again. The Curry sauce itself was OK but the big long pieces of beef were somewhat gross, lots of fat. They added plenty of slices to onions and a few pieces of green pepper and Julienned carrots, but that's about it for being called a stew. So I learned my lesson by not sticking to my usual order, and won't order wonton soup or curry beef stew again.

This place is consistently good and always has at least a couple people waiting outside of the door…read moreif not more. If you feel like a nice warm hug for your tummy, then get the Langzhou hand pulled noodles. The clear broth and light spice is so comforting for your stomach and it doesn't feel too heavy. You can choose your noodle thickness based on your preference. I typically go for the small rounds while my boyfriend gets the belt noodles - the complete opposite from each other! You can get out of there less than $20 a person, which is so rare in downtown San Mateo. Quick and easy meal for lunch or dinner.

Heard good things about out this noodle spot. Came around 11:30am and got seated right away. Around…read more12pm there was a line and the restaurant was filled. Ordered the chili oil noodles with beef. I was surprised it was not spicy at all. I even added the chili oil on the table and it didn't make a difference. The noodles were perfectly chewy. Just wish it was spicy!

I found out this is the owner of another very popular restaurant in Belmont which currently still…read morehave long line every time we visited. So we decided to try his new restaurant. The location is off the busy part of San Mateo which is awesome. Plenty of free parking and no wait at the restaurant. People walked by would second thought on coming in. Clay pot rice - Hands down the best I've had in many famous clay pot rice restaurants in the Bay area. See the pictures on how crunchy they made the rice without too much oil. HK style sweet and sour spare ribs - 生炒骨 very good. The flavor is very authentic to me like those I had in HK. Crunchy batter. I really liked it. Seafood clay pot - That one was fine, like the flavor, but nothing particularly special. Shredded chicken salad - it's good but I've had better. The main thing is the 沙姜粉 is not as strong. The quality of chicken is fine, decent yellow hair chicken flavor. It's too bad that the location may not be a visible location but this place is truly above average. I mean I'm happy because I never have to wait 45 minutes to get seated and parking is convenient. Just hope they will stay in business.

This place is way underrated restaurant. Food is great here and great price!…read more Mapo tofu is so good

Wow, pleasantly surprised by how good the food is here. Ordered takeout over the phone and food was…read moreready by the time I got there (15min). Spicy bullfrog - generous with bullfrog servings and taste was on point Lamb skewers - minimum 2 skewers per order with a good amount of meat per skewer. Spicy cold jelly - The cold jelly was a good refresher after all the spice. Love the texture. Duck blood curd - a little stingy on the duck blood curd. Probably pass on this.

Tasty food and fast service. The flavor is very authentic. The roast duck hotpot is spicy and…read moreflavorful! It has some veggies in it too. Will order again when I go back!

So I'm an OG who has lived in mid-Pen for 25 years, grew up with uncles who owned a very popular…read morechinese restaurant in a different state, and consider myself with refined food palate and know where the good local all asian restaurants are. Forgive me PING'S, but I only recently discovered this really terrific restaurants w/a cuisine from a region called Yunnan I had not discovered before. We got a "funghi" (mushroom) dish that the region is known for and it was amazing. The braised pork belly was really well cooked that was tender but not over done. The lastly got a veggie dish called "chayote leaves" that again, I had not even heard of, we decided to try even though the price seemed a bit expensive; it was absolutely one of my new favorite vegetable dishes and hard to describe. They do put alot of red peppers in many of the dishes so if you don't like spicy, it may not be for you. We saw other tables order frog legs and a fish dish looked quite good too, so this is very local Chinese. Lastly, this restaurant was quite busy on a Friday night with long lines and now we know why. Even though they were very busy, the services even more so for a Chinese restaurant was really good and they checked up on us many times. Ping's will be part of our regular rotation of mid-Pen restaurants now going forward. Highly recommend.

We made a reservation for a party of 9 and they gave us a private room which was nice since we were…read morecelebrating a birthday. You order on an iPad and the server will come in after to confirm the choices you ordered. If you like spicy mala food, this is the place to try! Everything we ordered was mild spicy since some people in our party couldn't handle spicy well and it was still kicking but with good flavor! Everything we ordered was honestly delicious. I can't remember the names, but definitely order the full fish soup, the fried rice and and the cauliflower with lotus root. The only downside is the servers mainly speak mandarin and super quick! But they do understand English and the iPad can be converted to English.

Amazing always Comfort food…read more Service is typical cantonese chinese fare . Can be busy at times. It's easy to over order you can't go wrong with anything on the menu really . Parking can be difficult when it's busy times. And they don't open until 11am.

Food: Authentic and flavorful, with a great wok hei. The 醃篤鮮 was tasty and nicely seasoned without…read morebeing too salty. The bamboo with bean curd was flavorful, and the pig's kidney was tender. Overall, the dishes were flavorful without being overly salty. Service: Many of the staff have worked here for a long time, and they were very friendly, welcoming, and chatty. Ambience: No music, and the restaurant was quite crowded. The overall atmosphere feels like a classic, long-established neighborhood restaurant that has been around for many decades.

My favorite malatang place. I always come to this malatang every time I come back to the Bay Area,…read morewhether at this location or the one on Stonestown. My favorite is the dry option Szechuan Spicy and you can pick and choose whatever you want to go in there. They have the soup option, but I have not tried that yet. The difference between the San Mateo branch and the Stonestown branch is that they have a dessert/sauce bar at the San Mateo one. Also- tip, you can purchase on their website for pick up or delivery. On weekdays for lunch they have a special lunch price which is a bit cheaper. Although, I do prefer ordering in person so I can choose how much of what toppings/ingredients go in there.

You walk in and grab a bowl with tongs (gloves included) and gather the items you would want. Then…read moreyou pick either soup or dry for your seasoning. Becareful, the weight will catch up to you. I usually get dry. Last time I got sesame and didn't find it salty enough, but the second time I got sweet and spicy and it's still really spicy. Not sure what flavor I should get next time. Their beef tendons are amazing. I don't know how they get it so tender!

Ordered DoorDash . The beef soup was good . Lots of mushrooms and beef . Basil spicy chicken was…read morealso great and tasty . Pork work string beans was good . Quantity is also good and pricing is comparably cheaper to other places . We ate it few times . Overall great - will order again .

Hate leaving negative reviews but this was probably the first meal I've ever thrown away. The…read moregenerals chicken was just skins or tendons or who knows if it was even chicken. When you skimp on actual meat it makes me think what else are they skimping on... and I couldn't go on. Tossed the whole meal