As a Chinese American who used to and still has family and friends in San Francisco when I go back to visits I will definitely make sure I visit those places while there
If you are ever in San Fran next, the Golden Gate Bakery apparently IS open again, but you will need to do a bit of research to get your hands on their famous egg tarts. They literally have a cult following, they are SO good. Unfortunately, their "open" times are not predictable, so you may have to get a little lucky. But if you do, you will not regret it!! I promise! :)
Is just food,even you can make it the same way or better!..The ingredients are the same everywhere in the world,maybe a bit more expensive in other places but in San Francisco I know the cost is higher just because of rent prices.
Harborview in SF is very, very, very high quality. I eat a lot of different kinds of Chinese food in San Francisco and the place is expensive but the quality makes it worth the splurge. Also, Harborview is a nice ratio of almost completely traditional, conservative menu but with slight nouvelle touches.
@@logictd567 Go shrink-wrap yourself and live underground since you are incapable of verbalizing your allergies to staff. You are just jealous you don't frequent places like that.
@@logictd567I can assume they'd wash their hands before handling food you're about to eat. Do you not touch your food when you eat it? Or is the food touching each other in your stomach somehow not the same thing?
depends on what part, usually the Tenderloin is the worst, though there has been a bit of a homeless spilling into Castro District when I lived there a few years ago
hahahaha sure dude. Gross domestic product last year of $250 billion dollars, just in that one little city alone. Is that more or less than the GDP of your entire state?
what i don't like mike's reviews is that he doesn't say anything negative about the places he visit i find it stale after awhile it's always good good the best this and that compared to a few hong kong food channel i follow they do say it when it's bad and why it's bad even World's Best Seafood channel (small sec channel of a photographer) have a honest review for noma's kyoto pop up restaurant (it was not mild lol) which i don't think mike would have a honest review on a restaurant at that lvl if he only give good review on any restaurant then all his reviews are questionable...
He also said if he doesn't like a place, he just doesn't include them in the video. This is called survivorship bias. He's got no problem negatively reviewing a big chain restaurant, but he's not about to damage someone's reputation due to his own opinion. Maybe keep that in mind when you see some youtuber denigrating someone's food. It's their own personal opinion, and they could have just simply not included it in the video. Makes it seem like they're clout goblins, desperate for as much content as they can get. No content creator is truly a "professional food critic".
In his earlier videos, he did have some negative reviews for some places and he was skewered in the comment section. There was a video on restaurants in NYC Chinatown and commenters actually said if he had nothing nice to say, he shouldn't say it. I am not typically a defender of Mike. He still needs to broaden his vocabulary and work on his enunciation and pronunciation.
As San Francisco is in a 'Death Loop', it looks like he's been getting invitations from the various restaurants to come and make a video about them. They hope it will get them vacationers.
As an adult, I love bitter food. Not super bitter but just enough to change the flavor of what your eating. But it's something I saw we get use to as we get older, because as a kid I'm all about sweet and sweet only like ketchup.
$25 for bone & turnip soup!? Glad you went to San Fran so I don't have to. Loved the city 25yrs ago & will most likely never go back. The city has been literally shit on & it still has places charging $25 for bone broth. And the pretentiousness. I wish them the best, but most likely it won't be there in 5yrs the way the city has been run. Your only customers will be criminals. Who wants to go there anymore?
@@pmg-1 The garbage is. And you are correct, someone going though alllllllll the hassle and relentless work of running a top drawer establishment is not entitled to any profit. I feel sorry for you that the price of well curated, well prepared, well sourced food in a premium city in a premium establishment is beyond your means. What would you do with the $2 if it was $4? Buy your Top Ramen for the week? Suks to be you. Try venturing out of your parent's basement in your Rust-Belt town more than once a year.
That was absolutely GORGEOUS, omg I'd totally go there ,the dishes were a masterpiece wow!!!Great video and I'm definitely going to get a few friends and go that looked amazing!!!Thanks mikey🙏👍💜💖🎊🎉😘🥰
it would be nice if when an item is priced as "market" you could tell us the price you paid per pound at the time of filming..so we can get an idea what to expect as a price point for that dish. 😊
Nice lunch with the overpriced dishes! I saw that the crab was Market Price, of course! With that great local & chef I'm not surprised that the soup was $25! Now, the "secret" restaurant with 8 tables was a very special event! So, how much did it cost? I wasn't a fan of most of the dishes but I saw a very unique experience & very private setting!
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Not sure when you were in San Francisco but it’s been warm and sunny since Sunday. I love Harborview. The view alone is worth dining at that restaurant.
Summer in San Francisco. Almost all of the rest of the state is hot right now but here in SF in ' summer ' I run the heater daily, even daytime and I like it cold. SF is an anomaly in multiple ways.
The best vegetables is cheap and abundant. I love a good stir fried fatty water spinach in Malaysia Sambal Chilli Sauce, stir fried in raw garlic slices, Half big onion slices, prawns and well seasoning in (best premium oyster sauce, little sugar, red chilli slices and light soy sauce)
Watch out for the 💩!
As a Chinese American who used to and still has family and friends in San Francisco when I go back to visits I will definitely make sure I visit those places while there
I recently saw a movie about a place like this. If it gets crazy make sure to ask them for a real burger!
*cheese
Was it the menu?
15:11 that’s an interesting way to fry fish! May try that sometime.
If you are ever in San Fran next, the Golden Gate Bakery apparently IS open again, but you will need to do a bit of research to get your hands on their famous egg tarts. They literally have a cult following, they are SO good. Unfortunately, their "open" times are not predictable, so you may have to get a little lucky. But if you do, you will not regret it!! I promise! :)
"The next dish is a peking duck Of course, more elegant." (Gets served goofy face plate)
Gaslighted into thinking that you are so “special” in this “secret” restaurant so they can charge you 2 times more for everything xD
That beef and snow peas look so fresh and good! 😋😋😋😁🙂
How is the first place one Michelin star??? We can't tell the taste but the presentation and execution looks pretty normal
Is just food,even you can make it the same way or better!..The ingredients are the same everywhere in the world,maybe a bit more expensive in other places but in San Francisco I know the cost is higher just because of rent prices.
Harborview in SF is very, very, very high quality. I eat a lot of different kinds of Chinese food in San Francisco and the place is expensive but the quality makes it worth the splurge. Also, Harborview is a nice ratio of almost completely traditional, conservative menu but with slight nouvelle touches.
I don’t think anyone said they are Michelin star…they are listed in the Michelin Guide.
Sound waves doesn't travel in space😅😊.
Mike has been wearing that same red shirt for decades. We know where he spent his money on. 🤣
I loved this Mikey ❤❤
all that meat is gonna be so jooooshy and tendurrrr uhhhh-may-zing
umani
However he says it, I'm there for it...❤
Is this copy paste?
I hope Mikey continues to over exaggerate his pronunciations just to piss off everyone that makes these comments.
Mike, you know what goes great with fresh crab….an umami filled Diet Coke. Umami umami umami.
You think you're so funny, huh.
$150 per person is abit overpriced
It's alot of food & very well priced imo
No his menu is the $250 one plus 20% 😆 but it’s SF so it makes sense.
Go to Boston pizza
I bet that Crab is $75! 😂
Can you please come back to Atlanta
Congratulations
Bro I was just there last week
Making me hungry.......!
16:49 🐻❄
Please find something like this in Los Angeles!!
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Why do these fancy restaurants always touch your food with hands and cross contaminate it? Don’t touch my food with your bare hands!
Unlike you, some people wash their hands.
@@rsnc23 doesn’t matter if you cross contaminate
@@logictd567 Go shrink-wrap yourself and live underground since you are incapable of verbalizing your allergies to staff. You are just jealous you don't frequent places like that.
@@logictd567I can assume they'd wash their hands before handling food you're about to eat. Do you not touch your food when you eat it? Or is the food touching each other in your stomach somehow not the same thing?
When he spilled some tea on the table 😂
Knowing how much Mike can eat in one sitting，I think he headed straight to Chinatown for more food after this. Lol
Isn't San Francisco crawling with homeless people and under some sort of drug pandemic!? 🤔
depends on what part, usually the Tenderloin is the worst, though there has been a bit of a homeless spilling into Castro District when I lived there a few years ago
some parts of it are, like every other city that size in America
at 16:53 - the peking duck dish looks like a googly face, lol.
Goofy Walrus has arrived😄 16:48
San Francisco is dead city.
hahahaha sure dude. Gross domestic product last year of $250 billion dollars, just in that one little city alone. Is that more or less than the GDP of your entire state?
what i don't like mike's reviews is that he doesn't say anything negative about the places he visit
i find it stale after awhile it's always good good the best this and that
compared to a few hong kong food channel i follow they do say it when it's bad and why it's bad
even World's Best Seafood channel (small sec channel of a photographer) have a honest review for noma's kyoto pop up restaurant (it was not mild lol)
which i don't think mike would have a honest review on a restaurant at that lvl
if he only give good review on any restaurant then all his reviews are questionable...
Mike used to do that. I think both places in this vid were sponsored.
He also said if he doesn't like a place, he just doesn't include them in the video. This is called survivorship bias. He's got no problem negatively reviewing a big chain restaurant, but he's not about to damage someone's reputation due to his own opinion.
Maybe keep that in mind when you see some youtuber denigrating someone's food. It's their own personal opinion, and they could have just simply not included it in the video. Makes it seem like they're clout goblins, desperate for as much content as they can get. No content creator is truly a "professional food critic".
Bc Mikey is a human garbage disposal.
In his earlier videos, he did have some negative reviews for some places and he was skewered in the comment section. There was a video on restaurants in NYC Chinatown and commenters actually said if he had nothing nice to say, he shouldn't say it. I am not typically a defender of Mike. He still needs to broaden his vocabulary and work on his enunciation and pronunciation.
@@SnowyCountryChickentalking bad abt China or anything related to it in even the smallest way gets you so many comments. It's crazy
Do y'all remember when Mike would go to some back alley restaurant and have amazing noodles?? .. 🍜 .. I miss that 😔
That first soup though 😋♥️
As San Francisco is in a 'Death Loop', it looks like he's been getting invitations from the various restaurants to come and make a video about them. They hope it will get them vacationers.
I see your point, but I kinda like watching him dine luxuriously. Makes me aware of how the "other side" lives lol. And he certainly deserves it!
Agree…. Miss him finding an $2 hole in the wall noodle soup… don’t think I’d ever pay $25 for soup.
you know the wok cook is legit when u see the oil burns on their arms
when he poured the tea on the table 🙁
As an adult, I love bitter food. Not super bitter but just enough to change the flavor of what your eating. But it's something I saw we get use to as we get older, because as a kid I'm all about sweet and sweet only like ketchup.
All the dishes look good, but the turnip/brisket soup looks really really good
*Duckfat* popcorn?! That's a heck of a nice snack to take home.
$25 for bone & turnip soup!? Glad you went to San Fran so I don't have to. Loved the city 25yrs ago & will most likely never go back. The city has been literally shit on & it still has places charging $25 for bone broth. And the pretentiousness. I wish them the best, but most likely it won't be there in 5yrs the way the city has been run. Your only customers will be criminals. Who wants to go there anymore?
apparently Mike Chen still wants to go there. He was at some of the most upscale restaurants in town, they're not all nearly this expensive.
That is Molinari at Columbus and Vallejo in SF. Great Sandwiches!
Those dishes at the private restaurant were works of art!
They look kinda cringe actually. Gimme a $5 shumai, hargow and lorbakgoh any day and I guarantee it will be tastier
@@togo7022looks like u missed the forest for the trees
That looks like Molinari sandwiches store on Columbus. A supermarket other right of the gate...
At 8:23 his driving at the Embarcadero. A place called Delancy Restaurant is good! Most of the workers are ex-cons which is great to get a new start.
The Pineapple Cake sounds good!
full stank coming in full throttle.
Enough with the damn umami. You use that word so often I’m not totally sure you even know what it means.
8 is Bot in Cantonese and hes right. It means good fortune. We all can use that!! 😂🤑
Not snow peas…sugar snaps!
Wow! To me, $25 for Beef and Snow Peas is pricey.
Love Crab Head!! Thee BEST PART!! 🤤🤤
That private meal looked fantabulous! The beef and turnip dish reminded me of my grandma.
Where is your beautiful bride?? We need to see her in more videos!! She is beautiful!!!!
$6 a piece for those tiny duck buns..should have double the meat for that price....holy cow expensive 🤯
They are truffle duck buns to a high standard so that's a fair price.
@@rsnc23 truffle oil is fairly inexpensive though
@@pmg-1 The garbage is. And you are correct, someone going though alllllllll the hassle and relentless work of running a top drawer establishment is not entitled to any profit. I feel sorry for you that the price of well curated, well prepared, well sourced food in a premium city in a premium establishment is beyond your means. What would you do with the $2 if it was $4? Buy your Top Ramen for the week? Suks to be you. Try venturing out of your parent's basement in your Rust-Belt town more than once a year.
Give me some crab I have to watch carbs - soup looks good
Please Clear your throat! At 5:12 it doesn't sound good!
Same clothes different day.😮😊 rich hobo
I know this may be a strange concept for you but have you heard of... a washing machine?
@@skotdude are u mikey?
Rich and hobo...is that an oxymoron?
Common Asian men scenario
@@SkotDudeDeutschLand Comments like that just go to show how much you wish Mike would pay attention to your little temper tantrums.
150 dollars for the private dining is really not too bad
Are snow peas on the same as mangetout/sugar snap peas? ( as we call them in the UK 🇬🇧) great video ❤
They’re different
That was absolutely GORGEOUS, omg I'd totally go there ,the dishes were a masterpiece wow!!!Great video and I'm definitely going to get a few friends and go that looked amazing!!!Thanks mikey🙏👍💜💖🎊🎉😘🥰
@@heartlessoni13 where do u suggest
@@christinechance7663 They don't have suggestions, they just eat cup noodles in front of their computer and act like they know better.
@@SkotDudeAustralia575 Braces guy was one of you. So very embarrassing.
Those little plates that u eate from looks like what you get in the Japan snacks box. God bless you always 🙏
it would be nice if when an item is priced as "market" you could tell us the price you paid per pound at the time of filming..so we can get an idea what to expect as a price point for that dish. 😊
Market price means if it's necessary to ask you cannot afford it.
@@rsnc23 😂 exactly
@pmg-1 I live in the Bay Area and a live crab like that in an fancy Asian restaurant will set you back in the 65-80 dollar range
What about Spit Oil and Gutter Oil in China being used to cook food? Do you worry about that?
dang that turnip beef soup looks bomb
the beef cubes is that with sweet snap peas because i thought snow peas are the really thin looking one.
That Eight Tables need Michelin star. But they probably don’t know the passcode
They all look good, but majority of us people who watch can't afford it.
Goddam it, Use the chopsticks instead
17:06 Six Spice
17:45 Five Spice
Crazy that your willing to go to a city on decline but not do anything in GA...
looks like Mike was last in Georgia a couple years ago. He goes all over the world.
Nice lunch with the overpriced dishes! I saw that the crab was Market Price, of course! With that great local & chef I'm not surprised that the soup was $25! Now, the "secret" restaurant with 8 tables was a very special event! So, how much did it cost? I wasn't a fan of most of the dishes but I saw a very unique experience & very private setting!
I think the menu card said 125 or 150
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Wish San Francisco could go back to what it was.
Did spend 80 € to have everything for the chilli oil™
Will try it for the first time in a couple days
Cannot wait :) im only a couple years late :D
The water coming down the wall. I’d love to know the backstory on that. It looks cool and like a shit show if any of that water into the fryer
Lazy Susan 🤣 who knew that's what it's called
Not sure when you were in San Francisco but it’s been warm and sunny since Sunday. I love Harborview. The view alone is worth dining at that restaurant.
I always have to get an order of beef and bitter melon when I go to my family's restaurant Hop Kee in Manhattan!
Thats hella expensive for that! $25?!! Wow!
Love the idea of a hidden restaurant. It would work SO well here in BC!
The wild pea shoots are everywhere if you like to go hiking and it’s quite common for East Asian to forage for edibles while on a stroll. 😂
I do like it when you dip into some fancy food
Oh ooh never heard of such a restaurant, that was really amazing looking.
Damn! He fit the whole crepe in his mouth! He da man!! 😅
Is Tempura Chinese food? I dont think so. 😂
That's probably the only good thing in SF
The clap sealed the deal 👌 😅😅😅
I live in HMB. Where are the pea shoots?? All I see are pumpkins, brussel sprouts, artichokes and fog?
Summer in Cali but look what you're wearing 😮😂 great episode 👏 👌
It gets real cold in San Francisco even in summer. I’ve seen it rain during summer there. Definitely not southern ca weather
@@nmelgar74 close to the Ocean nice breeze 👌 😌 ✨️ ☺️
Summer in San Francisco. Almost all of the rest of the state is hot right now but here in SF in ' summer ' I run the heater daily, even daytime and I like it cold. SF is an anomaly in multiple ways.
Yummy 😊
Wow look so yummy..
Highbrow eating, but it looks good.
I do love Beef Brisket though!!! 🤤
The best vegetables is cheap and abundant. I love a good stir fried fatty water spinach in Malaysia Sambal Chilli Sauce, stir fried in raw garlic slices, Half big onion slices, prawns and well seasoning in (best premium oyster sauce, little sugar, red chilli slices and light soy sauce)
I wouldn't survive in Japan I'm so allergic to mushrooms. Then anything fancy in California has mushrooms in it...
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HEY MIKEY your link to the drone isnt available ... Which drone are you using for your videos ?!