Hey FTCers any recommendations for a good chinese restaurant in rowland heights or further east of SGV in the IE? Type of food doesnt matter can be dim sum, noodles, dumplings, cantonese, shanghainese, szechuan, whatever as long as its really good.
Driving out to Palm Springs and want to eat some good chinese food before partaking in the Palm Springs food wasteland.
The spicy seafood noodles (chao ma mien) is better than most versions in SGV. That is not a hyperbole. Chewy handmade noodles (used to be housemade). Really complex spicy broth chock full of shrimp, meat, veggies.
If you like spicy, ask for it extra spicy. They’ve had to tone it down over the years. They fry the chiles in oil until it turns dark dark red, almost black.
Happy Harbor at Rowland Heights for dim sum. Earthen at Hacienda Heights for noodles/dumplings. Chendu Taste at Rowland Heights for you know what. Enjoy.
+1 on all of these. In Rowland Heights itself, besides Happy Harbor and Chengdu Taste, there are branches of WSGV favorites like Tasty Garden, 101 Noodle Express and Boiling Point. Also Taiwanese favorites Class 302 and Sin Ba La.
i like earthen, though for me it’s about the shandong chicken and quesedilla-like scallion pancake; if you order anything else and find it underwhelming, that’s on you.
if you’d prefer not to backtrack west from rowland heights, maybe silk road garden for uighur, q noodle house for taiwanese though if you don’t speak the lingo you may find it a challenge.
one offbeat suggestion: chinese mexicali fusion at cachanilla chinese restaurant in pomona that you’d otherwise have to drive down the US-mexican border to find.
Just out of curiosity what delineates Mexican chinese and american chinese? Most of their dishes seem to be american chinese with a couple of slightly more authentic chinese dishes.