Taishan Taste Dim Sum — Restaurant in San Francisco

Impressed with the Roasting Chef 👨‍🍳. Instead of selling a duck that’s been hanging, he asked me to wait 20 min so that he can roast a fresh 🦆.

Update 9.2025 specializes in single serving CLAYPOT Rice, Single serving bowls of Herbal Soup, rice plates, dessert (sweet) soup …

Definitely 👍Roast Squab 👍Chicken 👍Claypot with ribs & sausage 👍Sesame Ball w/purple potato filling 👍BLACK SESAME Pudding 👍TEOCHEW (aka Chew Chou or Chiu Chao) Dumplings.. 👍can’t go wrong with veggies in a Chinese restaurant 😂

🆗 Fish Maw chicken & Pork Bone herbal soups r okay .. good enough if u like soup .. homemade of course is better but

ℹ️Skip the Wonton Noodle Soup if ur a purist (I’m not a fan of instant ramen noodles) ℹ️Skip the Yellow Eel Claypot if ur not a fan of eel looking like worms .. I prefer the Yellow Eel at the Broadway location where they use the whole eel & u can request a soup to be made with...

YOU WILL WANT TO READ THIS! The food I found quite good. The lady who waited on us very nice. The reason for the bad review I think will speak for itself. Almost finished with our meal and my wife gets a not so good look on her face and I noticed she stops eating. The guy who prepared the food, she noticed, walks into the bathroom with his food prep gloves on. This she watches carefully. He then comes back out after doing his business…. With the same gloves on! He goes back to the food service area. Because of this, I’d highly suggest avoiding this place. Also, when paying by card they have an automatic 15% tip added (a fee for eating in it...

Listen, DO NOT come here. I’m Chinese and a foodie, so I’ve eaten my share of dim sum, good and bad. I’ve never had dim sum THIS bad. We couldn’t even finish and had to leave and go to another dim sum place to finish our meal. The shrimp dumplings here tasted stale, the meat in the shumai tasted gross, and rice noodle rolls have way too much noodle and not enough meat… I can go on. Only the Cantonese dumplings (潮州分粉果）here is somewhat edible. Do yourself a favor and skip this place. There are plenty of other places in Chinatown that offer far...