GTong wrote: > > Luis G. wrote: > > >I notice that there is a decline of quality of the > >food served in restaurants in the BA. Is it only me or did any body > >noticed this? > > I take it you didn't grow up in the Bay Area ... As one example, there was > no authentic or good Chinese food through the mid-1970s. Only chop suey, > and we still have remnants of that in the "nouveau chop suey" of such > popular places as Eliza's. You've got to be kidding -- were you living in a box or something? Just off the top of my head: 1. The North China, SF 2. Yet Wah, SF/Marin 3. Yen Ching, Berkeley 4. King Tsin, Berkeley 5. Omei, Berkeley 6. The North China, Burlingame 7. Chef Chu's, Los Altos 8. The Pot Sticker, San Mateo 9. The Mandarin, SF 10. China Lion, Palo Alto Most of these are still around; Omei is gone, and Chef Chu's has gone downhill, but there was absolutely no lack of "authentic or good" Chinese food in the Bay Area in the early/mid-'70s. And this was after thinking for maybe a minute and a half -- there were lots more.
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