That said, much of the dim sum does suffer because the items are kept in the steamers for quite a while, leaving many items to be overcooked.Īll in all, I was a little disappointed that Fung Fung Yuen didn’t seem to be the new game changer needed to help elevate the ho hum quality of dim sum in San Diego. They now have about 5 carts that do seem to circulate relatively frequently and do keep the food warm. ![]() Also, it looks like they have fixed the kinks with amount of carts. While some of the reviews (both on Yelp and other blogs) have complained about cold to lukewarm food, I didn’t have much of an issue with that. This was by far the best dish of the night for me. The pork itself was fairly moist and the peppers they used to fry it with were perfectly cooked. The batter was thick enough but not too overpowering and fried just right to be crunchy without being too oily. Salt & Pepper Pork Chop (椒鹽肉排) – There non-dim sum menu is a bit spartan, but that may be to their blessing as this was probably one of the best versions of this pork chop dish I’ve had.Salt and Pepper pork chops at Fung Fung Yuen So as our block continued to be green, we ate the following: Green side up and the carts kept coming, red side up and it was a signal you were done (at least temporarily). The dim sum came on carts (much to my disappointment) and, interestingly enough, they gave you a red and green painted cylindrical wooden block like you would get at a Brazilian steakhouse in the US. I was surprised they served dim sum at night as well, but it was a perfect way to sample dim sum items as well as a cooked to order entree dish. In fact, the restaurant was probably about 60% full. We arrived a little after 7PM and it was fairly easy to get a table. One of my really close friends happily agreed to go visit the restaurant too and off we went. Nonetheless, I had to go and took the opportunity to this Saturday on my quick trip to Southern California before my trip to Singapore. However, I was also skeptical of such a large Chinese restaurant succeeding in Mira Mesa given that Silver Ark in a nearby (albeit less trafficked) strip mall closed after operating for just a few years, despite a reasonably large Chinese and Chinese of Vietnamese descent community within a short-ish driving distance. After all, if I could spend 10-15 minutes driving to dim sum from my parent’s house instead of 15-20 to one of the places in Kearny Mesa, I was all for it. We are a concerted threat to legacy media organizations, and proudly so.When I saw that the old Home Town Buffet my family used to go to (a bit) was turning to giant Chinese restaurant complete with dim sum, I was naturally curious. SanDiegoVille reports fairly on the top entertainment happenings and small businesses doing it right, while not shying away from hard topics and questions you won’t read in local publications where editorial direction is ultimately steered by the sales department. ![]() We pound the pavement for our exclusive coverage instead of waiting for permission to break news from the fancy public relations firms that regularly spoon-feed mainstream media sources their story ideas, influencing journalists’ opinions with freebies and fanfare. We are a different kind of news site with no desire to conform to antiquated ideas of how many believe journalism should be. SanDiegoVille was created in 2010 to report about all the fun & delicious happenings taking place around America's Finest City and we quickly earned a reputation for being a news source for and by those that shun archaic journalistic practices in pursuit of reporting the real story. There will also be a cocktail cart similar offering drinks prepared tableside.įung Fung Yuen is located at 10660 Camino Ruiz in San Diego's Mira Mesa neighborhood and will be open from 10am to 10pm daily starting on August 8. From the bar, Fung Fung Yuen will offer a lineup of draft beer, including local options, as well as wine, sake and soju and sparkling wine-based cocktails. There will also be live seafood options like lobster, fish and Dungeness crab. Expect dishes like pan-fried dumplings, roasted pork, shrimp toast, Peking duck and so much more. ![]() Manager Michael Tran previously ran another San Diego dim sum destination - Convoy’s Jasmine Seafood Restaurant.įung Fung Yuen will offer diners a variety of traditional dim sum dishes that will be served by tableside carts, as well as other Chinese specialties and even sushi options. Owned by Simon Lee, a veteran restaurateur who also runs Sushiya in Chula Vista, Fung Fung Yuen is a gigantic modern Asian restaurant that can house nearly 400 diners at a time. Opening this Tuesday, August 8 in the space that previously housed Hometown Buffet in the Mira Mesa Shopping Center is the 10,000 square-foot Fung Fung Yuen, a modern all-day dim sum restaurant and cocktail bar.
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