Vegetarian Goose
Jai Yun

Jai Yun

606 Broadway San Francisco, CA 94133, 94133-3998, San Andreas, United States

Cheese • Chinese • Chicken • Barbecue


"This was our fourth experience with this chef over the past decade or so, our third in this location. The chef 's experience comes from cooking for large banquets in China for wealthy businessmen and politicians. This is not Chinese food you are likely to experience anywhere else unless you travel to China and know people. It 's certainly more interesting than anything I 've been able to find in Hong Kong over a few visits. There is no menu and often the server speaks very little English. You point to one of 3 prices on the card placed in front of you. We have always been satisfied with the middle price $128 per person for couples, it goes down for larger groups). Pricey and in a very ordinary room with plastic flowers. So clean it feels a bit sterile but this is a vast improvement over his original location. The meal begins with 16 appetizers on small dishes various pickled vegetables and thinly sliced meats, some intensely spicy. There is terrific variety in the flavors. His signature dish is bland but delicious: velvet abalone which consists of very thin ribbons of abalone mixed with cooked egg. Small plates of perfectly cooked shrimp and beef will also appear in course after course. The past few visits we 've had him stop after about 2 hours of continuous nibbling when we couldn 't eat any more. It 's really a place for foodies who are relatively insensitive to price and setting."