I remember coming to this place as a kid. But I'm sure that they've changed hands or at least now they probably have different chefs. So it has been a long time since I've been here and I have to say, you can certainly find better places to have dim sum. The problem here is they are trying to make their Hai Gow look bigger than they really are by putting in a little animal fat in it. If we are trying to trick people by doing this and I noticed it, then what else are they doing to their other product?! On the plus side, their sweet tofu soup was good. I've noticed that a lot of places put a little ginger in the mixture and I am not a fan of that, but this place doesn't do that.
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Raymond F. on:
3/6/2013 3:49:00 AM
One of the best places for authentic traditional Chinatown dim sum in SF, with very fair pricing and extensive menu. The servers are not very attentive, customers must get their attention. Very authentic, well prepared food at reasonable prices! Their duck is really good--not greasy.
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Eddie W. on:
2/26/2013 8:24:00 PM
I will keep this short...The food is mediocre at best is overstating. The rice wrappings are consistently soggy and fall apart as soon as you try to take it out of the steam tray. The food lacks in flavor and quality.Wait is tolerable, cart service is repetitive and lackluster, I swore I saw the same dish circle half a dozen times and pretty certain it was cold around lap 2.Overall ThoughtsWord of advice, Don't come to Chinatown for Chinese food...ironic I know but the food is seriously not worth the trip despite some extremely rare exceptions..it overall is tragic!
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Ramon H. on:
2/26/2013 12:35:00 AM
My visiting cousins wanted real dim sum (selected from carts) near their hotel on Kearny. This place fit the bill perfectly. We're not adventurous eaters but we respect other cuisines. My cousin ate duck feet and liked them a lot. We more timid eaters had several kinds of dumplings, bbq pork buns, and egg custard tarts. The servers were helpful, food & Tsing Tao were served quickly; tables looked clean to me and like everyone says, there is a delightful atmosphere of local families looking very happy as they chow down with everyone from tiny babies to ancient grandparents. Only thing I did not like was the roast duck. Be sure and have some of the bright green broccoli; it's a great palate cleanser between all of the savory and rich flavors.
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Audi S. on:
2/21/2013 2:47:00 AM
This is easily my favorite Dim Sum place around! It is the perfect experience for anyone looking for a noisy environment where the cart ladies try to put every item on your table. It's fairly inexpensive as long as you order off the carts. Anything in a steamer basket is awesome. The pork and shrimp dumplings are super, but when I ate there yesterday, I was blown away by the simple plate of chinese broccoli with plum sauce. YUM. I couldn't stop eating it.Oh, and PORK BUNS FOR SURE!It's dim sum, so if you don't expect a fine gourmet meal and are willing to have a little fun with it, this place is a must. Just don't be afraid to say no to the cart ladies, ask the bus-boys for water, or shove your bill in any employees path when you are finished eating and you will be good to go.
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Javier G. on:
2/17/2013 1:08:00 PM
Average prices and taste. Usually has the shortest wait-time of all the dim sum places in the area.
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A S. on:
2/10/2013 7:50:00 AM
Food is oily. Either tastes nothing or too salty.
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Furai X. on:
1/27/2013 8:33:00 PM
Solid. Definitely satisfied my (neverending) dim sum cravings.There was almost no wait for our party of 3 on a Sunday mid-morning and, of course, one of the best things about dim sum is INSTANT gratification. I liked how this place has the carts hookup but noticed how it was the same 4 carts orbiting our table.The food was good, not great, but again...it's dim sum and our total bill including tip came out to be $30 for the 3 of us. There's room for improvement (bigger water glasses!) but all-in-all, I'd come back.
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Jamie B. on:
1/21/2013 11:50:00 AM
I am going out on a limb here........ This place must have been grand when it first opened. It doesn't seem to have been maintained since. Not being a big city folk myself, and with my sheltered stucco PF Chang sanitized view of how kept a restaurant should be, I find it hard to overlook the condition of the place.... then........ the in-law orders, the table fills, and nobody talks. Perhaps this is life in the big city.
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Leslie K. on:
1/15/2013 10:28:00 PM
It's a great venue for the Kung Pao Kosher Comedy event every year during the holidays but the food...well...not my thing. But I'm just not interested in greasy Chinese food; most Chinese restaurants don't seem to use high quality ingredients and I often feel a little unsettled.
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Diana H. on:
1/10/2013 4:29:00 AM
I was looking for the screaming cart lady style dim sum IN Chinatown and New Asia totally fit the bill! We had one opportunity to get some dim sum while in SF on a rainy Sunday and hubby wanted to go to Clement St. He was right that we could probably get better food out there, but I also wanted to play tourist in Chinatown. I won.I yelped around until I found the reviews for New Asia and off in the cab we went, over hill, through tunnel, running stoplights, to be dropped off at a mostly empty New Asia around 10am on a Sunday.Not only does this place have screaming cart ladies, it also has headset-wearing hostess calling numbers! Fantastic! We were seated immediately but by the time we left, the waiting area was packed. I was, if not the lone, one of very few, white patrons in the restaurant. Lots of old people drinking tea. Lots of families.It was a bit challenging finding vegetarian options for the veg. member of our group. We ordered some noodles that took about a day and a half to come out, but we weren't in a hurry.We ordered a pile of food - ended up taking a lot with us (including most of those noodles) to be enjoyed later. Total bill (inc. tip) for 5 = $78I would go again. But next time I'd go to Clement St. Hubby gets to win sometimes, too.
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Margaret L. on:
1/6/2013 9:18:00 PM
Not like how I remembered from my younger years.
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Dorothy N. on:
1/3/2013 4:55:00 PM
Wow. This is by far the worst--yet busiest--restaurant I've been to. Besides the terrible dim sum, everything was cold or lukewarm. That is absolutely unforgivable.They also seated us on the stage so it was impossible to look at the food or flag down the ladies with the food carts. We had to constantly get up and chase them down. Service was pretty bad. We ended up clearing our own table and placing our dirty dishes on the structure behind us. The servers seemed confused every time we made any sort of request. But the bad service wasn't the real issue because it's sort of expected from Asian restaurants. If the food were good, lack of service could have been overlooked.
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Celeste C. on:
1/1/2013 8:38:00 PM
Upon walking in on a Thursday afternoon, I saw tons of local Chinese families/grandmas/grandpas, which I took as a good sign!The old Chinese lady who calls your number is pretty intimidating, not gonna lie, but that's an easily cleared hurdle at the beginning of the dim sum experience. We ordered a variety of pretty standard dishes, and the only one that I was really disappointed by was the har gow. The wrapper was really mushy instead of chewy and disintegrated upon my trying to get it out of the bamboo basket. Seriously a minor detail though, because everything else was yummy. A standout was a dish that consisted of cheung fun type noodles with spare ribs, which I've never seen before. It looked bland on the cart but the dim sum lady convinced us to try it and it was actually really flavorful! Their baos (we got cha siu and taro) came out warm, which I really appreciated, and both baos were good. If there was any complaint, it was that the cha siu filling was a little fatty but the sauce was so yummy that I didn't really care.Service was basic but quick and the wait wasn't too bad. Gets a thumbs up from me!
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Thomas M. on:
12/26/2012 1:16:00 AM
Is this the worst Chinese restaurant in China Town? In San Francisco? Maybe not. This place is huge--think Soviet Factory Commissary with tasteless chandeliers, Greek columns and sticky floors. Really more of a banquet hall than restaurant. The food! Mass manufactured consumables brought quickly to the table from the assembly line, bland and tasteless by robotic servers. Even the obligatory fish tank was empty and growing scum. There's a reason you only have to wait 5 minutes for your meal to arrive.
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Harley C. on:
12/21/2012 8:29:00 PM
Came here for dim sum on a Sunday, and only had to wait about 5 minutes for a table for two. The woman on the microphone was absolutely hilarious.The soup dumplings fell apart a bit too easily, and were a bit of an impulse order. The har gau were similarly fragile. The roast duck was quite tasty, as were the shrimp balls and the steamed char siu bau. The egg tarts were alright, but the dough a bit too soft.I would have liked a bit more variety in what was circling around us, as I saw better stuff on the other side.We were honestly in and out in around 20 minutes.
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Ellen O. on:
11/28/2012 4:23:00 AM
Oh my dim sum! We all had been craving dim sum and were not sure where to go this weekend. We happened to be on the corner of Pacific and one of our party happened to recall being there before. We quickly jumped on reviews on our phones and saw the comments.New Asia is a hopping place. Sei sahp bhat (#48) came rapidly and we did not have to wait long.I of course wanted to say yes to every single cart and every steamer box that passed us. We loved the taro buns, steamed pork buns, and many various items I cannot even name. The staff are great and show up just when you need to call for more.It was around noon on a Saturday and of course because of the holiday there were loads of tourists in Old Chinatown, but the crowd moves so well and the organization is good.This is now our dim sum place. Way to go!!
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Abbe W. on:
11/2/2012 12:25:00 PM
We came here on Sunday to have dim sum. The place is huge and very packed. A few items were very tasty.siu mai - pretty good. My husband and I usually like China Garden (Irvine) the best but their were less fatty and pretty good.har gow - We usually don't like it cuz the skin is pretty thick but theirs were very thin and shrimp is very tasty.chicken feet - very well braised and very tasty. I thought it was tastier than China Garden.Watch out for some of the waiter. We were still waiting for a few relatives to show up but this particular waiter came by with a plate of roast spare ribs and just put it down and said it's good try it, stamped it and left. We were like urgh, WTF just happened?? That dish was dried but has nice flavor. We should have asked for refund.
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Lilly K. on:
10/25/2012 9:18:00 AM
It's too bad you can't give negative stars.The dim sum is not that great. I've found better elsewhere. In fact, any other dim sum joint has something comparable or better. I wasn't wow-ed. I've been eating dim sum since I was a kid, so I've had a whole lot of this stuff and I know what's good and what isn't.They threw a bunch of paper mats on a dirty table, threw cups and place and dropped some tea. Then our servers disappeared. There are a bunch of push carts and generic pushy servers, so you have to make sure you say no so they don't slam random food you don't want (my friend ended up with a 20 plate of dim sum this way once) and be firm.The worst part of our experience is that they provided sub par service (and I'm the type of person who doesn't care about service so this is saying a lot) and they yelled at us for not tipping enough. Really, yelling at your customers for not giving you enough tip even though they didn't even provide halfway decent service? I've never been to any establishment that is this rude. Even in countries where you don't tip I've had better service.Please, I am not patronizing this business nor recommending anyone to go here. I'd rather take my business else where like to ANY of the dim sum joints on Clement Street.
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An N. on:
10/20/2012 3:11:00 AM
For a dim sum place it was just too crowded. The service sucked. It's a Chinese dim sum in the heart of china town. The food was good just like any good dim sum place.
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Mabel Y. on:
10/20/2012 8:00:00 AM
New Asia is by far, hands-down, the BEST dim sum restaurant in SF Chinatown. I have been frequenting this place for the past 2 decades, and am still delighted with their menu selection. Over the last couple of years, New Asia have had added a contemporary twist to their dim sum offerings, like durian pastry puffs, baked taro buns, and deep-fried lobster noodles.How do you tell when a dim sum joint is good? I do so by judging the patrons. If there are oodles of elder Chinese grandmas and grandpas at the dim sum joint, then the food must be good. Yes, the ones who push and yell loudly at the youngsters on the MUNI and on the street. But the reality is, they are the most picky and hard to please people in the world. They are almost never satisfied! And if Obama gets groped by a senile elder woman in a certain dim sum joint that is not New Asia, it does not mean it is good! Obama is not the taste test standard. Moreover, if the dim sum joint is filled with clueless tourists and is featured on a 7x7 article, then it may not be actually good. I hope you get my drift, because I am trying to be demure.Here, New Asia is filled with the rude elder Chinese grandmas and grandpas. So, by some crazy transitive property, New Asia is the best dim sum restaurant in SF Chinatown. Since all of their food is amazing, I highly recommend the whole lobster with ee mein noodles (aka first deep-fried, then pan-fried noodles in sauce) for $16. And then devouring the durian pastry puffs, taro puffs, shrimp puffs, beef balls, and pan-fried daikon cakes.My only complaint is that their building has aged throughout the years and that they are due to be remodeled. Oh, and last, but not least, don't expect to find any teeny-bopper dim sum girls at this place. See youtube. This place has dim sum ladies filled with sass towards their own kind, but super nice to the occasional tourists.
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Mitchell T. on:
10/3/2012 10:44:00 AM
Horrible service, high price, old place. Come here only because Gold Mountain and Miriwa restaurants closed down.Been coming here since mid-1980s, but coming back less often, since they opened new restaurants in Chinatown and then in other parts of the Bay Area. But since Meriwa closed years ago followed by Gold Mountain 2 months ago, I went in, hoping it got better. Boy, was I wrong. They ignored us (6) when we entered, and when I walked up to a table, a food cart lady tried to move us to a smaller table instead. Keep in mind, this was 8:40 am, ten minutes after opening, and big tables were occupied by fewer people. I mentioned that, to which she responded that I can just flip up the flaps to accommodate the six of us.Bye! Went to Imperial Palace (formerly Gold Dragon) instead.
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Julie H. on:
9/26/2012 9:23:00 AM
I just went here today and the wait was long...around 25 mins at 1PM when they said it'd take 15? It was my second time here, but I remember the wait was just as long when I came with my friends last time. If you're hungry, come early!I like their lobster noodles. Some of my friends say it's too starchy but I like it cooked that way. So juicy...yummy. I can't say the same about the dim sum though because it comes out cold. It's probably b/c the ladies push the carts around forever, but that's no excuse for cold dim sum! Another thing is, the portions are reasonable but the quality of the dim sum is unfortunately just so-so.
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Lily C. on:
8/10/2012 7:41:00 AM
Really surprised at the low reviews here.This place is not fancy nor do they sport the cleanest restrooms but the price is right and the food is tasty!Just yesterday I went with a group (3 total) and we were filled to the brim with delicious dim sum (including those melt in your mouth shanghai dumplings!) for under $30! Yes, sometimes they can try to push way too much food on you, but I've learned to stand my ground, take only what I want and ask for the things I don't see.Also -- I've been here with groups from 2 to 7 and never waited more than 20-25 minutes. Granted, I have gone on weekdays -- but generally during the 12-1:30 lunch rush.. and they have been pretty good at seating us as quickly as possible.All in all, I'm down with New Asia.
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Tiffany D. on:
8/8/2012 9:21:00 AM
Their dim sum dishes are really bad, but their dinner entrees are pretty good!I have went here countless of times for dim sum, dinners and wedding banquets. I must say that the place has gradually became less glamorous and more of the rundown places to go to in Chinatown!When I was a kid, I thought this place displayed China's modern extravagance on fine dining with their high ceilings, chandeliers. big layout, and good-sized dance floor. Now, the layout from the furniture to the seats has been overused and outdated. Daily customers for dim sum seem to have become more senior as well so the quality and taste of their food has become more bland.Servers don't care that you will be enjoying the experience. They want you to go eat and head out quickly so they can seat others.This place would only get 1 star for their dim sum dining and add those 2 stars for their good dinner and banquet food.Final say: Skip the brunch for dim sum and go for dinners or wedding banquets!
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Jon L. on:
7/22/2012 6:57:00 AM
Wow! This is such a "80's throwback to Hong Kong" kind of a restaurant. Instead of dim sum, I came to New Asia Chinese Restaurant for a dinner banquet that had folks like Mayor Ed Lee, city councilmen, Miss Chinatown 2012, Miss Chinatown 2012 runner-up, Miss Chinatown 2nd runner... you get the drill. It was that kind of time warp that made it awesome at the same time.It's amazing how many tables they can squeeze in here. We barely had room to maneuver much less the servers. Oh well they weren't really serving - efficiency is key here. Their goal is to serve you food quickly. No "Hi, my name is _____ and I'll be your server today." Napkins and cutlery were dumped onto the table and nary a smile to be seen. Yet it all made sense somehow.Food was mediocre. How 80's Chinese wedding banquet is shrimp and melon doused in mayo? There were other fried dishes, soup, and noodles served that were so-so as well. I must say though that they roast their meats (http://www.yelp.com/biz_…) really well and I liked the chinese veggies with mushrooms here.New Asia Chinese Restaurant is worth a visit just for the step back in time... just don't come here for the food exclusively. Perhaps weekend dim sum is a good time to plan that return visit.
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Pin X. on:
6/27/2012 8:06:00 AM
Although I am not a regular dim sum eater, I have tried many dim sum in the LA area. This place was passable because it gives you the dimsum experience (with the carts and the dishes) but the quality is just mediocre.What I really didn't like is that their servers tries so hard to push food on you and many of the food aren't even dim sum (i.e chow mien and such).On the plus side, it does have good variety of food and there wasn't any wait even on sunday at noon. We didn't eat too much so the bill was pretty manageable.
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Wayne N. on:
6/1/2012 10:34:00 AM
This place has to be good when at 10:00 AM on a Tuesday it is packed to the brim right?Well, that was my friend's experience coming in from ATX to visit some friends. We got there at opening and it quickly got packed.Service is impeccable as the people on the carts come by quickly and often. The decor and ambiance brings back waves of childhood nostalgia as, there really isn't anything like that in ATX.The food is actually not that special, as I've had better in Houston but coming from Austin, this was like a banquet. We got deep fried shrimp balls, har gao, shiu mi, potstickers, beef cheung fun, shrimp cheung fun, rice noodles with pork, char siu bao, lo mai gai, chicken feet, some sort of special har gao, egg tarts. Nothing was bad that's for sure, but nothing stood out as particularly special either, which as a chinese person, that's 4 stars.There's a lot of dim sum places in SF china town as I perused about, but this one is definitely something to keep in mind if and when I come back.
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Virginia Y. on:
5/31/2012 2:32:00 PM
Terrible service, mediocre foodFood is just mediocre here for dim sum. Terrible wait service though. I was seated on the upper level with my relatives. Maybe it was cause it was Sunday. Maybe because it was around noon so it was a busy hour. Or maybe they should be more attentive and prepared to deal with such a large amount of customers. My uncle had to get his own chopsticks, napkins and chair.. We ran out of seating because our party came in different times. We told them to add 2 more seats but they disregarded our needs. I think by the time we waited for the waiters to serve us, we would've been done eating already.. Also it took them FOREVER to clear the dishes off our lazy susan.. Piles and piles of empty plates started to pile up. Where were the waiters? NO WHERE TO BE FOUND. The food wasn't great enough for me to want to come back especially with customer service like this..
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David O. on:
5/9/2012 9:57:00 PM
I feel like eating in a cafeteria when I dine here. I've been here several times with family whenever we make that San Francisco Chinatown excursion. Unfortunately and ironically, there just aren't any good dim sum places in Chinatown (try places of off El Camino Real, south of San Francisco if you can). New Asia is, sadly, the best in SF Chinatown.The restaurant is a giant ballroom filled with tables and chairs; too many if you ask me (its crowded). Here, you'll find a mix of regulars and tourists and occasional visitors like me. Expect a wait on weekends and be prepared to be mind boggled when it comes to getting your table. You aren't exactly led to a table once you're called up. You're on your own when it comes to finding it. To me, its a place to get people in and get people out as soon as possible.Their dim sum is decent. Not bad but not special. They're generic; they serve the same usual dishes and never experiment with new dishes or even variations. I suppose that's great for regulars and tourists, but I enjoy trying new things. Come here if you're hungry; don't, if you have time to go elsewhere. I personally wouldn't dine in Chinatown if I had the choice.
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Chanel L. on:
4/24/2012 1:57:00 AM
A very large dim sum house, there is always a table available once you come. Two floors, can fit small to large parties, no problem! Tons of people, very loud and rude service; which is expected in any dim sum house. The dim sum isn't as good as other places I have been to, but there is one thing I can't find else where and I know they will have here..PORK BLOOD . JUR HONGGG. and INTESTINES . AoU JAP all in one dim sum house!YEAH,. those are my two favorite dishes when I am at a REAL dim sum house!
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Dee H. on:
4/19/2012 2:30:00 PM
When you go to New Asia Chinese Restaurant expect old school, traditional Chinese folks. Be sure to bring the G-folks or bring someone who speaks fluent Chinese! The place and food aren't too bad but I'm sure there are much better places in C-town to explore!We had the shark fin (*mushroom not sharks!) soup, stir fried scallops, fried oysters, walnut shrimp, smoked sea bass and peking duck. Do not order the fried oysters! They're disgusting. Peking duck...not so good either. The smoked sea bass was http://bomb.com - SOOOOOO GOOD. I wanted to eat more and more and more of it but I couldn't.To get to the bathroom you've got to go up some marble stairs - very unsafe on a rainy day. One could easily slip, fall and crack their skull. Be careful out there! The bathrooms themselves were gross and typical for C-town. The walls, floors, tables and everything else in the restaurant are sticky, grimey, greasy and need to be cleaned. There are also TVs, a stage and a karaoke system so people can perform at dinner banquets like the one I attended. Pretty entertaining if you ask me.Everyone seems to think the dim sum is cheap and decent so maybe I'll come back for that. For banquets and dinner, I would not recommend coming here though.
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Jade W. on:
3/22/2012 7:07:00 PM
If only Pacific ave could talk.I'm sure stories of tong's, gambling, prostitution and police raids would be plentiful. As one of the oldest and richest streets in the heart of China Town I have to say that New Asia holds a special place in my heart.I remember coming here as a young girl and thinking how special this place is. The banquet room is huge, the chandeliers plentiful and waiters dressed in black and white. And 20 years later it's still the same.The food is old school, lots of older generations sitting around and slowly snacking on their yum cha. Lots of hustle and bustle. Packed to the brim. Difficult to maneuver through. Lots of families catching up in canto, endless plates clinking and rushed service. I love to see the little old ladies dressed to the nines in their old school designer duds. It's everything I love in yum cha,Nostalgia alone gives this place 4 stars. Food is alright too - just have to know what to order.p.s the thought alone of the lobster noodles makes me mouth-gasm.
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Kevin K. on:
3/7/2012 7:09:00 PM
This place is always packed! I was told this was the best Dim Sum in the area, I am from LA and I still think that Monterey Park has some of the best dim sum ever! It took a long time to get a table, we were finally able to sit down and all our our plates were dirty and it took 30 minutes to get us tea.Food was ok, service was pretty lousy. This place is very large and can sit many people.
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Erica T. on:
3/7/2012 5:12:00 PM
The way they stamp the items are not like other dimsum places. I think it has changed quite a bit since the time I came here with my parents when I was younger. Today, my bf and I ordered the following:Siu Mai (stamped as medium because they add shrimp): YUM! I always seem to like siu mai with bits of shrimp in it. The mixture of the pork and shrimp makes the best combination and the siu mai itself at this place is pretty big.Chicken Feet: This is where I had to dock stars. The chicken feet isn't the best I have had and to tell you the truth, I would rank it as one of the worse I have ever had. The texture is there and is good, but the marinade... it just isn't good.Shrimp dumplings (stamped as large): You won't be jipped with shrimp in this dish. Some dimsum places give your one small shrimp and then cover it up with fake shrimp paste to make you think you get your monies worth. Not here, you get a hardy portion of shrimp in each dumpings.Dan Ta (egg tart) (stamped as special): hrm... usually in other dim sum places, it gets stamped as small because it doesn't take much to make these delicious buttery eggy tarts! This was really warm and yummy. I love egg tarts!Ham Sui Gok (deep fried meat dumplings): I love this dish when I was growing up (until I realized this is not good for you.. so I don't eat this dish often LOL). I would have to say the stuffing in this dish was very disappointing. You get so little stuffing and so much gooey skin... it wasn't worth getting. I have had better and it had triple the amount of meat stuffing than what we got at New Asia.Overall. dimsum carts came by often. Opt out on getting crappy seats, there is so many tables there that it won't hurt to wait a min longer to get a better table (I wouldn't recommend sitting upstairs for dimsum). I think it is CASH ONLY during lunch hours. Service is good, they clean and refill your tea pretty fast.Total bill was $19 something for 5 dishes (two people).
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Addie L. on:
2/19/2012 1:57:00 AM
I'm reading the bad reviews and at first glance, don't quite understand.If this place is so bad, why is it so packed and it's a huge place with close to 100 tables?This is an authentic dim sum restaurant, so don't expect friendly service, it's going to be crowded, the servers are rude. A very good sign that this is the real McCoy is about 95% of the people eating here is Chinese. I think the origins of the bad reviews is probably the above. Of course, being a popular dim sum restaurant in SF Chinatown, the owners don't care about the bad reviews (including mine).The dim sum is really good and cheap! Expect to spend less than $10 per person for lunch. Their lobster e-mein is a must order.
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Randy S. on:
2/1/2012 3:02:00 PM
DO NOT EAT HERE - We walked out.Let me explain. We entered and told the host we had 3 in our party. They directed us to a nearby table that was filthy. We stood by and waited for them to clean it and bring fresh linens.Instead of a clean tablecloth they brought some white paper place mats and attempted to conceal the wet spots and food remnants that were left on the table.We were horrified.If that is how they treat their tables we were afraid to see how they treated their food.We literally turned around and walked out and headed to Yummy Yummy Restaurant just two doors down.Do not eat at New Asia. Scary.
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Victor W. on:
1/24/2012 2:03:00 PM
I don't know which was the best part of this experience. Was it waiting for my number to be called or was it the food. This place gets really packed. When we got there we were given number 13 and they were only on number 56. The lady screams out the numbers, if only one could understand what she was saying. We had to wait about 30 minutes to be seated but it was well worth it.Once seated the carts with Dim Sum fly around you every few seconds. Don't even think about thinking about if you want a dish or not, if you look interested before you can say yes or no its on your table. The veggies are great, and the desserts were yummy.All in all it was great Dim Sum, I would return again. My ears were ringing for a few hours after from the loud number calling, but then again thats what makes it a fun time.
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Kristy C. on:
1/6/2012 10:24:00 AM
Happy New Year!We came for new years day brunch with good friends and family and had a blast. Dim sum is the way to go to start your year off right, I think noodles are good luck like black eyed peas or something.Anyway its like a warehouse/auction house the way they get you in and out of here and the dear hostess is screaming your number and waving you away in the very loud mic. I think she said, "You take a cruise now!', or maybe, "never you come this way". Either way, we did what she said.I had all meatless fare while we were here. big fat rolled up noodles, bao, dumplings, chinese broccoli (my fave), spring rolls, tofu...the works. The boyfriend didn't have one thing without meat, he wanted to take the hanging roasted pig home for a nosh in the car.Dim sum is so fun with friends and especially in china town, so come early, take a cab and stroll to union square on your way out.
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Elisa M. on:
1/4/2012 1:20:00 AM
Never been to a dim sum place where we had to flag the carts down! Usually people are pushy and trying to get you to buy their stuff. We flagged one cart down and the lady came up to us and asked what we wanted. We aren't playing a guessing game. Tell us what you have in those bamboo pots!I was upset that the short ribs never came!! ack, oh well.Price-wise, it was relatively cheap. I lost count of how many things we got. For four people, we got a lot of food for about $10-$12 a person (including tip).Probably won't go back, but hey it's your standard dim sum restaurant.
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