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365 Gellert (in Serramonte Plaza) Daly City, CA 94015

650-992-9000

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SF Weekly
Recommended
Best Chinese
Award Winner 2007

Cuisine(s): Chinese, Dim Sum, Seafood

Hours: Open for lunch Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Saturdays 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sundays 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dinner served nightly from 5 to 9:30 p.m. (until 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday)

Price: $$$, $$$$
Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Diners Club, cash

Features: Family Style, Private Party, Takeout

Serving: Dinner, Lunch
Alcohol: Beer/Wine

Reservations: Accepted

Parking: Street

Description

Elegant, bustling restaurant offers vast selection (more than 100 dishes) of impeccably prepared dim sum during lunch hours, from shrimp-and-scallop dumplings to roasted duck rolled in pancakes, rice noodle stuffed with shrimp, and delicate pastries. Dinner is equally spectacular, with fresh seafood preparations such as squid and chicken in XO sauce and noodles braised with lobster, plus an excellent beef, taro root, and coconut sauce dish in a clay pot and salted egg mustard green soup. Try the young coconut with hashima (frog, but eat it anyway) for dessert. Full bar.

2007 | Best Chinese

They line up on weekends here for dim sum (also available, with shorter wait times, for weekday lunch), but we much prefer dining here at night. You're greeted by a 1,500-gallon array of tanks filled with fresh fish and shellfish as you enter, but that covers only one page of the 18-page menu. Don't miss the crackling-skinned suckling pig, either a plateful or an entire roast beast (for $190). If you like the ritual of making little sandwiches out of the equally crisp, lacquered skin of... More »
2002 | Best Chinese Restaurant

We could tell you about simple meals we've had at Koi Palace -- exquisite dim sum, coconut-sauced beef and taro in a clay pot, egg noodles braised with lobster until they took on a richness that could make God himself drop to his knees. We could tell you about meals we'd like to have (the menu's so deep it would take 30 visits to try everything), but instead, let's recount the time we ordered the $399 banquet for 10. It started with suckling pig, the skin so crisp it shattered like spun... More »

It's No Joke -- Beverly Bender Is a Laugh Therapist

By Caroline Chen | Tue, June 28, 2011

"Laughing is like changing a baby's diapers -- it doesn't permanently solve problems, but it makes things more bearable for a while," says Beverly Bender. She's a certified laugh leader and laughter y... More »
Dragon Beard Candy from Koi Palace

By Tamara Palmer | Mon, September 27, 2010

Here's a trick to bypassing the amusement park-like weekend crowds at Daly City dim sum institution Koi Palace: Save the dumplings for a quieter time and just swoop in and out with some dragon beard c... More »
Palace Feast

By Meredith Brody | Wed, April 18, 2007

When faced with an extraordinary multi-page menu like the one you're handed at Koi Palace, the famed Cantonese restaurant in Daly City, you can be a trifle overwhelmed. The menu runs 18 pages: a page each for tea, appetizers, barbecue specials, so... More »
Royal High

By Greg Hugunin | Wed, October 03, 2001

Sometimes it's nice to get away from the urban grind, to spend a few weeks in the Greek islands, a few days on the coast, or even a few hours in Daly City. When I first moved to San Francisco, I'd bop down to our southern neighbor every now and ag... More »

Dinner

Appetizer

$15.00

Sea Urchin
(uni)salmon , geoduck clam sashimi

$30.00

Sea Urchin (uni) Sashimi

$30.00

Geoduck Clam Sashimi

$30.00

Geoduck Clam Salmon Sashimi

$5.00

Spring Rolls (4)

Soup
For 2 To 3

Up $10.00

Soup De Jour

$12.00

Hot & Sour Dumpling

$12.00

Salted Egg With Mustard Green

$12.00

Sweet Corn Minced Chicken

$12.00

Westlake Soup
winced beef egg drops

Live Shrimp

Poached In Broth

Pan Seared W/premium Soya

Tossed W/ Salt & Pepper Corn

Steamed W/ Roasted & Fresh Garlic

Sampan Style Spicy

Chef's Special

$16.00

Chinese Broccoli With Seafood Sauce

$16.00

Crispy Fried Beef Flank

$28.00

Smoked Sea Bass

Lava Rock Roasted Live Prawns With Wine Sauce

$28.00

Whole Maine Lobster Over A Bed Of Sticky Rice

Dessert

$4.00

Mango Pudding (4pcs)

$4.00

Coconut Banana Soft Custard (4pcs)

$4.00

Herbal Turbal Turtle Essence Jelly (cup)

$5.00

Lychee Tapioca Pudding (cup)

$5.00

Sugar Egg Puff(4pcs)

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Koi Palace

365 Gellert (in Serramonte Plaza) Daly City, CA 94015

650-992-9000

Description

2007 | Best Chinese

2002 | Best Chinese Restaurant

By Caroline Chen | Tue, June 28, 2011

By Tamara Palmer | Mon, September 27, 2010

By Meredith Brody | Wed, April 18, 2007

By Greg Hugunin | Wed, October 03, 2001