Chili House - San Andreas

The best and most authentic Chinese food I've ever had! This place even beats 90% of Chinese restaurants in downtown Manhattan. Note: advance order of Beijing d... read more The best and most authentic Chinese food I've ever had! This place even beats 90% of Chinese restaurants in downtown Manhattan. Note: advance order of Beijing duck needed otherwise you need to wait for 1hr+. Reservation highly recommended.Service is extremely friendly. I traveled from Manhattan and found out this place after visiting a couple of restaurants in theBay area. I had to say this is by far the best one. This place has authentic Chinese food from Szechuan and Beijing. Weordered: Beijing roast duck: very good. The skin is still attached to the meat, giving a well balance between fat and leanprotein. The duck isn't too fatty though, which is a little off from authentic Beijing duck. Still it's nearlyperfect. Fish head with pancakes: very good. The broth is sweet and sour and the pancakes are crispy and fresh. You canonly order half of the fish head. Twice cooked pork: great. Fatty but not greasy and not too spicy. Mapo tofu:spicy and tasty. They added a generous amount of peppercorn so it gets your mouth numb (ma ? but that's the key of authenticmapo tofu Meat pancake: ????. Made with pork. Very authentic. Like a huge pan fried dumpling. Glutinous cake with redbean paste: ???. Very very authentic and fresh. As someone growing up in Beijing, I almost burst into tears after my first bite- it reminded me of home. This food is better consumed in store otherwise it will harden. We enjoyed all the dishes andeach one of them are super delicious and flavourful. I will definitely revisit this place if I come back to SF.

Seriously. Good. Chinese Food. The green beans were our absolute favorite. They were the perfect balance of crunchy and soft with the ideal amount of seasoning.... read more Seriously. Good. Chinese Food. The green beans were our absolute favorite. They were the perfect balance of crunchy and soft with the ideal amount of seasoning. Needless to say we finished them first. The sweet and sour and fried rice was also great butthe green beans stole the show.

So sad we didn’t get to try the Peking duck! The tea smoked duck was still amazing though. The other dishes were also delicious but I wouldn’t get the soup dump... read more So sad we didn’t get to try the Peking duck! The tea smoked duck was still amazing though. The other dishes were also delicious but I wouldn’t get the soup dumplings here. We had enough for another meal at home

The best food I've had in years. I haven't had roast duck like that outside of Beijing, freshly cut with just the right proportion of tender juicy meat crispy s... read more The best food I've had in years. I haven't had roast duck like that outside of Beijing, freshly cut with just the right proportion of tender juicy meat crispy skin with cucumber and spring onions wrapped in warm thin rolls. And cumin lamb withonion literally transported me to Beijing, eating yangrouchuanr on the streets. Thank you for the experience!

This place did not disappoint! Fresh, tasty and delicious! We ordered the Pecking Duck (they also gave us the decision to get the back of the duck fried or plac... read more This place did not disappoint! Fresh, tasty and delicious! We ordered the Pecking Duck (they also gave us the decision to get the back of the duck fried or placed in a soup, we decided fried), steamed pork dumplings, and the seasonal vegetable! Wow! All of it was sooo good! This was an memorable experience!