Comments on: Hong Kong Restaurant Review, Palo Alto

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 22:04:21 +0000

Not a new restaurant in 2012. Been around since at least the late 90’s, just at a different location a mile or so down El Camino in the San Antonio Inn. Moved because the building got torn down.

Very good for a mid-range Hong Kong-style restaurant. Particularly like the salt and pepper crab and the chinese mushroom with tender greens.

By: Foodnut.com

Foodnut.com — Sun, 05 May 2013 05:39:39 +0000

In reply to m.w.. That is how we remembered the location. It has nothing to do with whether Hong Kong Restaurant will succeed or not. As we said, there really is not another reasonably price Chinese Cantonese restaurant near it.

By: m.w.

m.w. — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 02:00:54 +0000

I am interested why you described the location as “where several restaurants including a Thai one had come and gone.” The Thai restaurant had been there since we moved to the Bay Area (1990), so I would hardly classify the location as having several restaurants and being cursed.

By: Foodnut.com

Foodnut.com — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:33:25 +0000

In reply to Karen M..

Sorry to hear of your encounter. We’ve been there twice in 2013 and it was fine. We’d stick to the type of dishes we ordered.

Service at almost any Chinese restaurant around here sucks unfortunately. Visit Hong Kong, Canada, and China and you’ll be amazed!

By: Karen M.

Karen M. — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:16:06 +0000

Interesting that you have had such excellent food, etc. at this restaurant. Totally the opposite of our visit…

We went for dinner about a month after they opened. To say that it was a miserable meal/experience would be an overstatement. We were a table of 10, 7 were Chinese. At least 5 of the 7 speak Cantonese and/or Mandarin.

Mgmt/server were rude and the food was just barely passable. Questions posed about what fresh veg were avail etc., were met with sort of “what ever” type responses. We definitely got “bad vibes”.

We’ve never been back, but based on your review, perhaps we will have to give it another try…