Taisan Huakee restaurant 利桦饭店 4737 Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, CA 94118

"Me and a friend dropped in for lunch. They now carry out a promotion getting one free vegi dish by ordering three clay pots. I ordered a preserved meat clay pot rice. We were provided some peanuts and soup while waiting. Service was great. It took around 15mins for the clay pots ready to be served, which was fast. The preserved meat is too fat and the rice is oily. Sausage tase good though. Price of the clay pot rice is very competitive. It would be even better if the rice is less soggy with oil."

"I rated this restaurant 5 stars about 5 months ago. I came here again last month. Their business is better than 5 months ago. But obviously this family is unable to handle the increased volume. Service is not good anymore. I am charging my rating to one star. My original review follows: Yesterday was July 4th. I was trying to get Japanese food from Bento Peak which is cross street. Unfortunately Bento didn’t open so I came to this place. I made the right decision. This is a family own restaurant and they just took the ownership a few months ago from the old owner. It was a northeast Chinese restaurant before the ownership change and rebrand. I definitely like the current Taishan style better. The owner’s wife is friendly and gave me information about which vegetables are fresh at that day. Highly recommend everyone to give it a try to support local businesses. On the menu, it lists beer. But actually it doesn’t have. They don’t have license yet."

"Went here on a Thursday night in December. It was kind of empty, underrated imo!! Just my family and another table. We ordered 3 clay pots from the taishan clay pot list (I think it's the first page) #1, #3, #13. Should be the taishan yellow eel, spare rib & Chinese sausage, and braised beef. For veggies we ordered pea sprouts (? dow mew in canto) and bittermelon. Our meal came with complimentary seaweed soup. - Spare rib & Chinese sausage clay pot rice was SCRUMPTIOUS! Though I may be biased since I just like those flavors more lol - Yellow eel comes in second. There were plenty and long pieces of the eel. - Braised beef was ok at best. Would not order that again. Just don't prefer it in that format, i.e., prepared differently I would probably enjoy it. Not a knock on the restaurant/chef at all. - The veggies were good. I do remember the bittermelon having that wok hey to it. And with all claypot, expect there to be a wait. I feel like maybe we waited 20 mins? They came out faster after the first one. Also the crispy "burnt" rice was excellent... Just the right amount of crunch. They will pour soup into it afterwards if you request it. Lastly, I will say I think they are very underpriced compared to some other claypot restaurants I've been to. And also just SF in 2023. We were a family of 4 and after tip was probably close to $100. Based on my experience, I would definitely come here again. I'd like to try other dishes."

"The beef and egg clay pot rice was delicious and was great value for the price. I got a box of food and a container of broth for only about $14 after tax. The beef, which there was plenty of, and egg were perfectly cooked. Some of the rice was crisped, which is normal for clay pot rice dishes. The rice was seasoned with a bit of soy sauce and there was a container of soy sauce mixed with sesame oil with a slice of jalapeno. The broth had carrots, tofu, and tofu skin and was delicious. I ordered to go and had to wait about 20 minutes for my order. The interior is the same from when it was a different restaurant called Dong Bei Mama. Service was ok. Overall, I recommend coming to this new restaurant because the food is delicious and the prices are low for this city."