Bay Area Asian Eats

Chinatown's post-1906 rebuild turned racist barriers into a tourist business model, creating the Grant Avenue spectacle visitors see today. One block...

Sergeant Ma turns its tucked-away spot along Mission Creek Channel into a resort-like escape, with retractable walls opening onto the water and an...

Saam's ambitious SoMa opening from Michelin-starred chef Thitid Tassanakajohn fails to deliver, with unripe tomatoes in the tuna za jin and overcooked...

Phong Duc Yen, a Vietnamese refugee of Chinese descent, opened a Chinese grocery on San Bruno Avenue in 1991 in a historically Black corner of the...

House of Thai has cooked Thai street food on Haight Street since 1999, evolving from Thai House Express as the family kitchen passed generations. Dishes follow ancient recipes under a chef trained by Pa Dang, with 120 options cooked to order daily.

Little Sky Kitchen stands out as a casual Bay Area Asian café stop with its pork and daikon bao. The filling delivers a strong savory, salty meat flavor in a delicate bun, yet large daikon chunks clash with the soft texture.

The 9 best Cantonese restaurants guide lists these options across the Bay Area:

• China Live
• HK Lounge Bistro
• The Empress by Boon
• The Happy Crane
• Harborview Restaurant & Bar
• Four Kings

This selection highlights the mix available for exploring.

San Francisco’s Chuseok Festival, hosted by the Korean Center since 2019, has expanded to draw 20,000 attendees celebrating harvest traditions through...

H Mart’s 75,000-square-foot Ingleside Heights expansion joins the Bay Area’s supersize Asian supermarket surge.

What to buy:

• Outstanding produce...

Zhen's Kitchen reimagines the former Hing Lung space at Rincon Center as a compact take on a suburban dim sum and seafood palace, offering a step up from the old setup.

Dive into Bay Area food culture with these standout cookbooks tied to local chefs and institutions.

• Guittard Chocolate Cookbook: Decadent recipes...

Three distinct Berkeley restaurants closed in September, highlighting the variety of local dining options navigating change.

• Alborz on Allston Way...

Mai’s Restaurant closed permanently on October 1 with no farewell fanfare, only a recorded phone message thanking customers for their decades of...

In Baon: Stories and Struggles of Filipino Migrants, home-cooked dishes become vessels for Bay Area migrants' memories of home, political struggle,...

A mayor's unannounced visit and social media shoutout turned Marina Beach's 18-seat South Asian spot from quiet neighborhood wine bar into one of San...

Soojin Kim brings Seoul-rooted fermentation to Rockridge with Chez Maeju, making ganjang, doenjang, and gochujang from scratch in onggi crocks before...

San Francisco's biggest dumpling party returns October 25 for a free, all-day celebration at the Ferry Building.

Chez Maeju brings Seoul-style fermentation traditions and ganjang-gejang (raw marinated crab) to Rockridge, becoming only the third East Bay spot to...

Oaktown Spice Shop, founded in 2011 by John Beaver and Erica Perez, filled a gap by grinding and blending spices in-house when Bay Area cooks had few...

• 27 years across coasts with Mina Group, Alain Ducasse and Jean-Georges Vongerichten inform his classical French foundation
• Rebuilding Gardenia’s...