H. L. Peninsula Restaurant

I guess this is as good as it gets in San Francisco. No prior bookings so waited about 30mins for a table on a Sunday. Which is considered fast. A very big and popular Chinese restaurant that can sit up 4xx paxs. Most of the staff spoke Cantonese and they were fast and attentive. Dim Sum is our family’s favourite. The dishes that we like from this restaurant is the tangerine salty egg yolk lava boa, sauteed turnip cake in XO sauce and the shrimp rice noodle rolls. Mango pomelo sago dessert was good but could be better if more mangoes were blended into the soup. Golden egg fried rice and har kow/ prawn dumplings were a bit bland, supreme soy low mein w/shallot noodle texture were a bit chewy. Pork to fu skin was mediocre. Pork and crab roe dumplings were huge but the pork smell too strong for my liking. Chrysanthemum tea had chlorine smell so got the staff to change the water but the smell was still there. She offered to change to plain boiled water but we declined. Chinese broccoli we

Located next to the Home Depot in South San Francisco, this is truly the best Cantonese cuisine! Exceptional quality foods, which features high quality ingredients and the freshest seafood. Best place for Chinese wedding banquets. Their abalone with sea cucumber over spinach is a masterpiece. The sea bass is prepared perfectly: cooked to perfection with a red, sweetened exterior and soft delicate flakes of the freshest fish! The steamed lobster arrived at our table with the shells cut, and the exposed lobster meat seasoned with garlic and green onions. We are also treated to the surf clams with sugar snap peas. The crab crab claws were an exceptionally great dish: thick ball of crab cake over real snow crab claw. One of the best roast pork appetizer plates: crispy skin and soft fatty cuts of pork. Incredible evening!

Overall, we had a better experience here than the one in Milpitas. It's probably the best Cantonese place we have tried in the US so far, very legit. The portions of every item we ordered were good for 4-5 adults. And we were 100% full and satisfied after the meal.