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I am a perpetually hungry twenty-something journalist, born and raised in Menlo Park and currently working at the Palo Alto Weekly as education and youth staff writer. I graduated from USC with a major in Spanish and a minor in journalism. Though my first love is journalism, food is a close second. I am constantly on the lookout for new restaurants to try, building an ever-expanding "to eat" list. As a journalist, I'm always trolling news sources and social media websites with an eye for local food news, from restaurant openings and closings to emerging food trends. When I was a teenager growing up in Menlo Park, I always drove up to the city on weekends with the singular purpose of finding a better meal than I could at home. But in the past year or so, the Peninsula's food culture has been totally transformed, with many new restaurants opening and a continuous stream of San Francisco restaurants coming south to open Peninsula outposts. Don't navigate this food boom hungry and alone! Feed me your tips on new chefs and eats and together we'll share them with the broader community.
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Beijing restaurant chain opens in Mountain View
Uploaded: Jul 13, 2016
A franchise of Dong Lai Shun, a Beijing restaurant chain, is now open at The Village at San Antonio Center in Mountain View.
Franchisee Harry Huang, a native of Beijing who has lived in the United States for 30 years, soft opened the first U.S. outpost in mid-June. Huang said he hopes to offer local diners "authentic food from Beijing."
The first Dong Lai Shun opened in 1903, Huang said. The Chinese-Muslim restaurant is known for its mutton hot pot — thin slices of lamb, served raw and then cooked by diners in a boiling pot of soup at their table.
Images of the Mountain View restaurant’s menu posted on
Yelp show items like Mapo tofu, braised beef, stir-fried lamb and a wagyu beef pancake. The menu is divided into several sections: soup; "small eat;" poultry; meat; seafood; tofu and vegetables; and rice and pancakes.
Huang said the restaurant is still in the soft-opening phase and is gearing up for a grand opening in about two weeks.
Dong Lai Shun is located 545 San Antonio Road, Suite #32. It joins several other restaurants at the shopping center:
Paul Martin's American Grill,
Pacific Catch, The Counter, Cocina Central, Sajj and
Veggie Grill.
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