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Mission Chinese Food
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2234 Mission St. San Francisco CA 94110

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  • Asian, Chinese
    Sun-Tue, Thu-Sat 11:30am-3pm, Sun-Tue, Thu-Sat 5pm-10:30pm
    $$ $, $$
    All Major Credit Cards
  • Casual
    Delivery, Kid Friendly, Takeout, Vegetarian Friendly, Wheelchair Accessible
    Dinner, Lunch, Snack Food
    Beer/Wine, BYOB
  • Not Accepted
    Meters, Street
Description

A Chinese restaurant within a Chinese restaurant in the Mission District, Mission Chinese Food almost defies description. Working out of Lung Shan, the formally trained Danny Bowien (winner of the 2008 Pesto World Championships in Genoa) puts out a short menu of Chinese regional classics tweaked way beyond recognition. His Mongolian beef is made with braised beef cheeks and horseradish, his cumin lamb with lamb belly and soy-pickled long beans. Bowien's love for Sichuan food results in pickled cabbage that burns and buzzes at the same time, as well as deep-fried chicken wings buried in dried chiles, each wing coated with aromatic Sichuan peppercorns and star anise. The chef's restless spirit can result in duds (a salad wrapped in rice noodles), but no one else is making food like this, and for every dud is a Roman candle that explodes in showers of spice and sensation.








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  • 2013 | Best Culinary DisruptErs

    By Anna RothSan Francisco may be the undisputed leader in tech innovation, but the city's food scene has moved beyond farm-to-table ingredients and is causing its own distruption. Witness the astronomic rise of Mission Chinese Food's Danny Bowien, a young chef who decided to start experimenting with Sichuan peppercorns and riffs on Chinese food like kung pao pastrami at a Mission pop-up a few years back (2234 Mission St., 863-2800. MissionChineseFood.com). He's now the darling of the... More »

  • 2013 | Best Exotic Food Delivery

    By Anna RothIt's Tuesday night, you've opened a bottle of wine, and have Netflix queued up to binge-watch something delightful. All that's left is to order dinner in, but you're tired of the same old delivery options. These S.F. restaurants offer something outside the norm for those evenings when you want to explore the boundaries of a new cuisine but don't want to leave the cozy confines of the couch.Lers RosAlligator, frog, rabbit, quail, boar, and other meats beyond the usual choices... More »

  • 2011 | Best New Restaurant

    Apart from co-owner Anthony Myint and a shared propensity for donating restaurant profits to local nonprofits, Commonwealth and Mission Chinese Food are independent businesses with very different modi operandi. One is a bistro decorated like a CSI lab, complete with shiny appliances and photogenic staff; the other is a raucous Chinese restaurant with a hip-hop soundtrack and a paper dragon stalking diners from the ceiling. Considered as a whole, though, the neighboring restaurants are a... More »

Main Menu
Small Dishes
$4.00
Beer Brined Sichuan Pickles
salt pickled cabbage, cucumber, roasted peanut, fresh coriander, chili oil
$4.00
Black Vinegar Peanuts
black vinegar, smoked garlic, anise, fennel
$4.00
Smashed Cucumbers In Garlic Sauce
salted chili, sesame paste, fresh coriander
$4.00
Chili Pickled Long Beans
daikon, carrot, fermented chili
$6.00
Steamed Eggplant
ginger scallion vinegar, calamansi, salted chili
$8.00
Tiger Salad
xi'an herbs and lettuces, fresh turnip vinegar, chili oil
$8.00
Sliced Peanut Noodles
peanut sauce, cheung fun, sweet tofu skin, pickled mustard greens, chives
$9.00
Mouth Watering Chicken
dry-spiced chicken thigh, seared chicken hearts, vegetable noodle, sichuan pepper
$9.00
Tea-smoked Eel
fresh rice noodle, chinese celery, salted plum hoisin, braised pork, cognac soy
$9.00
Char Siu Pig Ear Terrine
torn herbs, pickling brine, bean sprout, lime, thai chili
$10.00
Bbq Pig Tails
smoked cola sauce, dill pickles, brioche
$10.00
Red Braised Pork Belly
slow-cooked belly, broccoli, sesame, chickpeas
$10.00
Chongqing Chicken Wings
explosive chili, crispy beef tripe
Large Dishes
$11.00
Stir-fried Pork Jowl And Radishes
fermented black bean, mint, red perilla
$12.00
West Lake Rice Porridge
braised beef, dungeness crab, soy cured egg, cilantro
$12.00
Ma Po Tofu
pork shoulder, doubanjiang, chili paste
$12.00
Kung Pao Pastrami
explosive chili, celery, potato, sweet peppers, roasted peanut
$12.00
Thrice Cooked Bacon
shanghainese rice cakes, bitter melon, tofu skin, chili oil
$11.00
Salt Cod Fried Rice
mackerel confit, chinese sausage, lettuce, egg
$14.00
Sizzling Cumin Lamb
watercress, charred dates, pickled long bean and red onion
$10.00
Mongolian Long Beans
xinjiang spices, horseradish, chili oil
$10.00
Stir-fried Sweet Peas
pea tendrils, numbing chili, red onion pickles
$11.00
Braised Watercress
adzuki beans, old bay, boiled peanut, pumkin
$10.00
Baby Bok Choy In Popcorn Broth
chestnut miso, garlic chives
$18.00
General Tso's Veal Rib
spit roasted, dry-fried
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