Unassuming mom and pop small business in a strip mall center tucked in the corner of a parking lot. We were surprised by the good Chinese food at very reasonable prices that seemed like a better deal than other places which would charge a few bucks more for the same dishes. Lunch specials are $12.50 and portion sizes are generous. As many reviewers have posted on the hainan chicken with rice, we can say it did not disappoint. The waitress was attentive and did her best to tend to all tables as the only person working there. I would come back to try more items off the menu. read more

The food was amazing and the restaurant was clean the good cane out fast and the wait time wasn't long at all

Way delayed review. Have been coming to Pop Kitchen for the last few years and the dishes here has been consistant and comforting. Welcoming services and never disappoints for traditional Chinese cruisines with a modern twist. Definitely recommend read more

I haven't been here since they first open and I had mostly steam food items which was very good. So I came here for a friend's bday anniversary and the food is very yummy. It is pricy but worth the experience. They also have karaoke, now that's interesting. The spotted prawns were more like tiny shrimps which was still good but a bit of work. The sticky rice with the king crab was very good. The staff was really nice and fast. Everything was really good but I thought the king crab was a bit over priced. Overall we all enjoyed it. Even if it's a bit pricy, I'll still recommend the place. read more

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We enjoyed dinner @ pop Kitchen . Giant oyster, pop kitchen special prawn, noodle, Very good and service, very unique decorations! read more

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We decided to stop in for lunch. Mom had been here before, said that the food was pretty good although it could get expensive quickly. We were greeting immediately and seated at a booth. The entire time we were there, we were the only table to dine in. They had numerous people picking up take-out orders. Menus were printed on a 8.5x11" sheet of paper. The font was a challenge to read and the text was crammed together but we managed to muddle through it. As usual, we over ordered in order to be able to get a variety of dishes. Hainan Chicken - 5 - excellent flavor. served cold. great dipping sauce of oil, garlic and green onions. we were also brought a mild but flavorful chili sauce. Oxtail in Red Wine Sauce - 4 - I'll never understand why oxtails sell for $6.99 a pound at Costco and more elsewhere. Every cow has a tail so they should be easily available. The dish was flavorful but the oxtail was lean and a bit chewy. Also, it had potatoes and carrots instead of carrots and daikon radish which is a better flavor combination. Chinese Vinegar with Ginger, Pig Feet and Eggs - 4 - This is a dish that was traditionally served to women a few days after they gave birth. It certainly has a unique flavor in that the vinegar is not sour but on the sweet side. Vegetable fo the Day - N/A - It really wasn't the veg of the day. I simply asked for a dish of whatever greens were the freshest. I never got around to trying it because I was too busy working meat off the bones. Service was very good. Friendly and as engaging as I wanted without being obtrusive. When we were done, our leftovers were taken into the kitchen to be packaged for us. The dishes that we ordered did not require the use of the in-table cooktops. We may have to come back to try other dishes. It will be so much easier when COVID is over. read more

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In the age of the $30 burger a $35 dollar platter of lobster fried rice doesn't seem very extravagant It's really good! It's just seasoned rice with a bit of something green and a hacked up lobster. Yum. My server didn't speak a single word of English. Cool. Whoever cooked it had the timing just right. The lobster was just cooked. I know this is based on one dish at one visit but it was yummy. read more

Came here for a friend's bday. Been here once or twice before and was interested in coming again. My friend special ordered this lobster dish ((not on the menu )) and it was delish!! read more

Pop Kitchen - Special order: Lobster sashimi - Seafood Near Me - Daly City, California

Seafood came out fresh and delicious with freshly sweet. The cooking time and temperature are perfect to keep the texture and taste - like catching from the sea. Hainanese chicken rice is super. Meat is soft. This restaurant gets the healthy concept and majority of food here is steam (keep the food fresh and less greasy). Enjoy! read more

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My family n I love coming here for lunch n dinner. The food is delicious and flavorful. The Hainanese chicken is a must try. Highly recommend this place. read more

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Just got done eating here an hour ago, and the food is good. Don't get me wrong. But I'm Not feeling well after eating the food. My stomach hurts so bad. I have been in the bathroom for a long time now. read more

Friendly service. Yummy food. Good value. Clean and comfortable environment. Will return again for the noodles and sticky rice.

Good place to hang out with friends! Nice foods and nice staff. Easy parking. Nice place.

Gave this place a second chance and ordered the ginger scallion crab and it was really small!! A rip off. Not even 2lbs! Never again!! I'm giving 2 stars for the bitter melon w/chicken and baked pork chop were ok. Nothing special tho. read more

Its a very unique concept that also has a very interesting ambiance. The food is good for its price.

I tried so many times eating here since 2018, with wide variety type of dishes they prepared for me, finally, I'm very responsibility to recommend this Pop Kitchen to our communities. Come to join us for the best in town! read more

I came here last night for a company holiday party. The place isn't very big, so we were able to reserve the entire restaurant for a private party for about 60 people. Parking was easy on a Saturday evening. The Manila Oriental Market closes and there's tons of parking. The service is amazing! Round after round, the waiters/waitresses came by and set new dishes to steam and serve us food. There is a dome that opens on a timer and literally seconds after it opens, someone is there to attend to the food. My glass of wine was also topped off regularly and I saw non alcoholic drink orders were served quickly. Plates of shells and bones were changed regularly. Everyone was friendly and service couldn't have been better. Fresh seafood is the best. It has a freshness that you just don't get when eating seafood at a restaurant that doesn't specialize in seafood. Simplicity at its best. No seasoning needed. Just steam it so you can appreciate the flavor of the seafood, with a bit of seasoned soy sauce to dip. We had a really good menu of clams, abalone, scallops, Maine lobster, fish, chicken, quail, live shrimp, xiao long bao, and some veggies. At the very end of the meal, you get to eat the congee that's been cooking in the drippings of all the fresh seafood from the entire meal. It's delicious. It's a very different experience from hot pot and I would definitely recommend. read more

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Pop Kitchen is one of a kind with steamed hotpot. If you like fresh seafood, this is your place. Just keep in mind, seafood gets pricey, and don't expect excellent customer service. Location: Inside a plaza with a parking lot Service: Can be slow. I witnessed a couple walk out because they were tired of waiting. Typical Asian restaurant service without explanations or smiles. But, food is prepared and served by the waiter, course by course. They will do the steaming and serving while you watch and eat. Interior: Still looks new even though Pop Kitchen has been around for over a year. Each table has a steam machine, and it's cool to watch them go up and down. Food: For two, we tried fresh shrimp, scallops, XLB (soup dumplings), steamed clams, and a plate of veggies. We dipped each piece into a premade sauce. Everything was pretty good, but they ran out of razor clams. Total: Over $100. Would I go back? Maybe. read more

Service is amazing. The Zheng Qi style is like Chinese magic. How amazing it is. I order the steamed chicken and it is the purest chicken I ever eat. read more

I have ordered for take out and doordash delivery, they have never disappointed me. By the time it arrives to me at home, its still super hot and the quality and flavor is great! I definitely will try dine in soon! O R D E R D E D - Hainanese Chicken [whole] with 4 rice and 4 soups for only $25! (WHAT A DEAL!) - Clams with Minced Pork and Basil: a hint of spice and ginger with some vermicelli, perfect for cold weather - Boneless Hainanese Chicken Rice Plate: I sure enjoy anything that's deboned for me - Sweet and Sour Spareribs: flavorful! - Steamed Spareribs Rice Plate - Fish Filets in Wine Sauce: comes with the black fungus, tasty! - Rice Rolls: comes with sweet sauce and peanut sauce, just like the street food in Asia - Japanese Tofu in Thai Sauce: if you like spicy, you gotta try this. This is the tofu that's fried on the outside and kinda yellow on the inside, my fave! Danny is great! He is always super welcoming and recommends the best dishes! They even have a house special XO chili sauce (with dried scallops), if it had to rate the spice level, i'd give it a 7-8/10. Definitely check it out and see for yourself if it's spicy enough for you or not. read more

Pop Kitchen - House-Made Xo Chili Sauce XO | ig: eats.w.eva - Seafood Near Me - Daly City, California

Another newish, interesting concept in dining that's made it way from Asia. Rather than you cooking it, like a hot pot, your meal is steamed in front of you under a steaming dome at your table. The raw foods, unseasoned, are placed under dome steamer. Once you've ordered the food, it's placed on the steaming table under the dome, then the dome comes down. When the food is cooked, the dome automatically rises and the waitstaff pours and/or provides the sauce and then serves it to you, dividing it among your party. You can opt to order the congee (for additional cost) and all the steamed drippings fall into the congee pot that is below the steaming tray and you can have congee with your meal. We came for dinner and we were only a party of 3, so we didn't order a lot of food and since it was dinner, we skipped the dim sum selections. We ordered the oysters, "premium" sliced beef, steam pork in lotus leaf and XLB dumplings. The oysters were delicious, the XLB dumplings were also good. The beef, albeit "premium" was a bit of a let down and the minced beef on lotus leaf was a disappointment. We were expecting something wrapped in a lotus leaf, but instead the bamboo steamer was lined with the lotus leaf, rice and beef on top of the leaf and steamed (this was served already steamed; you didn't have to cook it yourself under the dome) The food itself was average, you steam your meats and dip in the provided sauces. This may be fun the first time, but I can't see myself coming here on any regular basis, particularly for the cost. The oysters were $2.80 apiece, the lotus leaf minced beef was $20; the large order or XLB was $13 and the premium beef was $19. It was over $50 for 3 of us. I think the menu is pricey...starting at $6 for dim sum and between $15-$20 for non-dim sum dishes. It is a novel idea, good to try at least once, but personally, it's doubtful that I will return. read more

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This was my 2nd time ordering via DoorDash and the Spareribs with Garlic were amazing! Brought me back right away to a nostalgic OG HK restaurant that has since closed. I grew up with that flavor profile and have not found it since. Also love that they offer "Tasty" rice as an option. Portions are fresh, light, and balanced. We'll be working our way through their menu! read more

I hate to slam a small, family-owned restaurant, but this place was a little disappointing. The only reason to come here is for the hot steamer machines which lower down from the ceiling and steam the food at your table, providing a little show for you, but there are only seven tables at this restaurant and only two have steamers that work. If you don't get a table with a working steamer, you have to order food from the kitchen, and the food is okay, not great. They don't tell you which steamer is working or not as they're seating you, and that means if your steamer isn't working, you don't find out until after you've ordered. We came here for dim sum, and there are places that serve better dim sum (HL Peninsula and Ming Yuan Restaurant) and we also ordered the Hainan chicken, which was not only small, but we could make a better Hainan chicken than what we had here. read more

Good service! Staff gave me the WiFi password fast. Tea came fast and feels clean! I like the decorations around the restaurant

First dine-in after many months. The feeling of eating inside is very gratifying. Food taste much better served directly from the kitchen on a plate. I really enjoyed the garlic butter cheese crab. The crab butter in the shell was very fresh and delicious. Goes very well on the scallop fried rice. Everything was clean and safe. Great service read more

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Ordered pickup via Doordash. Dd never sent the restaurant our order even though it was processed and paid for, and said it was ready for pickup. The owners here are really nice and accommodating and made our food for us even though it was about to close!! Thank you for that :) We ordered a baked cheese filet rice and a baked pork chop rice. Ive been on a hunt for the best baked cheese rice around the city and I think this place is definitely in the lead so far. Loved how big the portions are, how creamy the sauce is, and how flavorful the dish is!! The baked pork chop rice was one of the best I've tried as well - loved the sweet tomato flavor and the tender pork chop!! If you are not convinced, look at the pictures and tell me you're not already salivating :) read more

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Wanted to try the razor clams but they didn't have any. Would come back to try their seafood. Baked Filet of Fish With Fried Rice + Soup (Combo): 4/10 Chee Cheong Fun: 5/10. Sauce was a bit too sweet HK Style Baked Pork Chop + Soup: 7/10 String Bean With Homemade Sauce: 7/10. On the spicy side. read more

Pop kitchen was a pop of surprise for me. From flavors to service to ambiance. My first visit was on September 22 on a Saturday around 6pm. My party of 6 got seated immediately with no problem. The attraction is the steamer at each table that comes down from the top all automated by the machine giving it the oOOoOoo factor and IG worthy post. -Steam yo own food, NOT AYCE. .:: Food ::. Giant Clam with Vermicelli (live) $8/one: i expected a little more flavor from this. It was bland and had to add in the sauces they provided on the table. Geoduck (live) seasonal: If i remember correctly it was about $50-$60 per pound. Not worth it. The whole table agreed it wasn't good and was way to expensive. Fresh Shrimp (live) seasonal: pretty bomb, it went well with the sauces. Premium Beef $19: surprisingly really good despite being steamed. I thought the quality would be brought down since not grilled but it was very juicy. Spareribs $13: honestly cant go wrong with this. Tasted like dim sum. Xiao Long Bao $13 for 10 pieces: pretty good especially since its fresh. Conch with chicken soup $28: soaks up all the goodness at the bottom of the steamer. You basically inhale everything that cooked above the whole time with seafood flavors all seeped into this porridge. ** We ordered more items like vegetables (which i dont eat) and lamb, but I'm not reviewing it since I didn't eat it** Total was about $90 per person. Next time, skip the Geoduck. .:: Service/ Parking/ Ambiance ::. Service was surprisingly good. Maybe because we also spoke Cantonese with our waitress she gave us recommendations and told us it if was enough for the amount of people eating. DO NOT come here expecting to eat hella quick, because they only have one steamer that fits one dish at a time. Its about the experience and enjoying the company. Parking was easy was it is located in the corner of a plaza (same plaza as onyx and the bowling center) Ambiance was very bougie Asian with inspirational quotes all over. Not to shabby for an Asian restaurant. read more

Pop Kitchen - Premium Beef $19 - Seafood Near Me - Daly City, California

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They have awesome takeout deals for a great price around $10 that includes home-style soup! I didn't get to take a close-up picture of their huge baked rice in all its glory, but it was a large portion with 4 pieces of pork chop and lots of fresh ingredients. Their hainan chicken was also good and not overly oily. Overall, well-worth it and a hidden gem tucked away in this small, crowded plaza. read more

Pop Kitchen - Baked Pork chop in Portuguese Style with Fried Rice and Soup / Hainanese Chicken with Tasty Rice and Soup - Seafood Near Me - Daly City, California

Pop Kitchen has been on my to-go list ever since my friend told me about their soft opening. The second most memorable thing about pop kitchen are the chairs. They look like that Simon game turned into a chair. The most memorable thing was the way the steamers came down and then would pull up, steam fueling out of it as it wished up and everyone scrambled to try and get the perfect boomerang shot. Their food? Not bad, but not overly memorable either, except in how it was cooked and the fact that it came with like, 10 XLBs in one order. Pretty tasty but I've had better. I suspect their seafood would be a different story, but one of my friends was allergic to shellfish, so alas, this trip was limited to a still solid number of dishes. It was probably cheaper that way. Our lunch was about $25 after tax and tip with 5 or 6 dishes and 3 of us. We also got the beef rice noodle roll which was solid, the pork belly, which was pretty tasty, would order again, and a few other things I'm struggling to remember. They did bring out some of the dishes already steamed/cooked, which was good otherwise we would have starved since the steamer was fairly small and could do like, max two dishes. Oh! It was the pork and chive dumplings. They were dumplings, so they were tasty. Actually, there was one dish that did stand out, and I highly recommend getting. The custard lava buns were pretty tasty and pretty memorable since we all, despite knowing it was ridiculous hot and literally we watched it finish cooking, ate it immediately and scalded our mouths. Also the sauces they provided were pretty delish. Was the steamer gimmicky? Kind of. Was it fun? Yes. I think it's definitely an interesting place to take people but I could see the novelty wearing off, and after that, it just becomes another dim sum restaurant but with more seafood. Would I go again? Sure would, but mostly for the novelty of the steamer. I'd probably rate it 4.5 if I could. And I'd definitely make sure not to go when starving, cause the dishes take like 6-10 min to steam before you can stuff them in your face assuming you don't wait longer for it to cool. They said the rice porridge was a specialty but we passed. Maybe next time. Definitely not a place you can go with 1 person. The more people the better! read more

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First time visiting today but it will not be the last! My husband saw a posting on Facebook for their $25.00 Whole Hainan Chicken Special so we had to give it a try. I'll be honest, I probably wouldn't go there on my own had it not been for the special + rave reviews for their chicken as I usually get my "sui meh" from next door. My daughter who is a picky eater, especially with her chicken gave it two thumbs up! The portions are huge so you can easily feed a few adults with an added side of greens to round up the meal. The owner was friendly and service was prompt. He told me my food would be ready in 8 min sharp but I told him to take his time as I needed to make a few stops. Went back in 20 minutes and my food was nicely packed and ready to go for me. Support the family-owned restaurant and give this place a try if you're in the area! More than anything, they need folks to patronize during this hard time so they can stay afloat and be around for years to come. I believe they still have indoor seating so dine in is also an option for now. read more

Pop Kitchen - $25 Whole Hainan Chicken Special served with oil rice and soup (chinese style)! - Seafood Near Me - Daly City, California

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Was excited to try out this place but ended up severely disappointed. The chives in my squid dish and the salt and pepper pork was not fresh. The pork smelled and tasted bad and the oil it was cooked in was old. Service was very slow as well. We waited 30 min for our waitress to come by to order even though there were only 3 occupied tables. Everything felt off about the place including the decor. read more

Delicious and authentic Chinese food! We ordered the Hainanese chicken in chili oil, clams in black bean sauce, ribs and veggies. Everything was delicious. read more

Their seafood is so fresh! With their fancy timed table steamer, it is so much fun to watch the food cook! Especially the porridge underneath the steamer, cooked with steamed flavor and juice from the steamed food, it is the best of all! However, don't be fooled by the humble look of the restaurant, if you want to enjoy a spread of freshly steamed food on your table, be prepared to spend $80-100 per person. It's good for special occasion. read more

A new find: Pop kitchen in the strip mall of King Drive & Callen Boulevard in Daly city. Mom treated, so we feasted on lots of goodies. Featuring Hainan chicken, steam egg with clams, prawns and walnuts, steak cubes & trumpet mushrooms, Fried tofu w/ fish & black mushrooms, Coffee spareribs, And lastly deep fried sardines. read more

Dinner with family at pop kitchen. Fusion Asian foods. Our family members happy with the foods and services. read more

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今天dinner at pop kitchen, love prawn and Japanese yam dish. Service friendly! Will be back. read more

Pop Kitchen - 超正， 今天和家人到天潮厨房吃饭， 出品非常棒。 - Seafood Near Me - Daly City, California

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Hainanese Chicken is a bargain. They have a special today $25 for the whole chicken with rice and soup. Great. They only give you two small containers of garlic ginger. They gave me an extra one. Truly a "hole in the wall" but well worth it. I usually use the rice to make fried rice a few days later. The rice is long grain which is great for fried rice. read more

Pop Kitchen - Seafood Near Me - Daly City, California

Fantastic foods. Very authentic GuangDong style food with large dish size, at affordable price!

Henry is just awesome! He helped me with my orders and it was all so delicious! I would recommend their DUNGENESS CRAB! We tried all kinds of their dungeness crab and the garlic a d chili tops it all. Im definitely going back this Thanksgiving as per children's request! read more