16. LITTLE PEPPER
Flushing, NY
17. R & G LOUNGE
San Francisco, CA
18. ASIAN JEWEL SEAFOOD RESTAURANT
Flushing, NY
19. AMMA
New York, NY
20. MISSION CHINESE FOOD
San Francisco, CA

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Mission Chinese Food
San Francisco, CA

2234 MISSION ST.
415-863-3800
WWW.MISSIONCHINESEFOOD.COM

How do you get every hipsterish-foodie within a 50 mile radius to want to visit your restaurant? Well you take a run-down Chinese restaurant (Lung Shan), which is located on a semi-seedy block of San Francisco’s Mission District, and start serving a farm to table version of Chinese food under the name Mission Chinese. That’s what Danny Bowien did when he started serving dishes like tea-smoked eel with pulled ham hock, Chinese celery, rice noodle, Cognac and soy, Kung Pao pastrami with explosive chili, celery, potato, roasted peanut and steamed rice, and salt cod fried rice with escolar confit, Chinese sausage, egg and scallion.