Hometown Kitchen — Restaurant in Milpitas

The worst Chinese restaurant in the san francisco bay area! First of all, There is no open sign on the window. The door was broken, When my dad ordered the bun, the female server was super inpatient, said they don't have this particular one, and then we ordered another cuisine, she said the price was increased up to $15.99, it was $13.99 before. We didn't have any choice at the time, so we ordered it. The kitchen told us the one we ordered was sold out around noon. The Funniest thing for this place was all the dishes were totally different from the menu, the owner daughter's explained, the menu book was printed out in CHINA. Then I asked her, because of the printing was made in China, so the menu's picture is supposed to be different? She said we opened this restaurant at least 5 years, nobody complaint about it even the pictures were totally different ! Then we walked it...

I am a bit biased as the owner is a family friend.

Pretty decent spot for Hunan cooking. My family comes here pretty often and while there is some Americanization in the food, it's fairly solid for central Chinese cooking.

Solid choices are the frog, fishball and luffa, and the 糍粑 for dessert.

The peppers used isn't what we use back in Hunan and you can't really fault them as importing it is quite expensive.

This is one of the few places in the Bay that use dried imported Hunan black stinky tofu and it's pretty decent, but the broth doesn't quite have the same complexity and of course, dried black stinky tofu is about as close as it'll get here in the states since the normal production methods are illegal by FDA standards.

The location is a bit off, in the plaza next to Milpitas Golfland, but if you're looking for a specific style of Chinese cooking,...

The food was awful. The Twice-Cooked Pork with Chili came with two giant chunks of meat instead of proper slices—completely not what it should be. While the server did replace the dish after we pointed it out, the overall quality didn’t improve. The fried rice noodles were soggy and broke apart immediately, and the pig trotter still had large patches of hair left uncleaned.

Hygiene was a serious issue. On the way to the restroom, I passed the kitchen and saw cooked beef just sitting in plastic crates directly on the floor.

Service was mixed. The staff were polite when we spoke to them, but it was hard to actually find anyone. One server was sitting by the entrance playing mobile games and didn’t seem interested in helping.

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