"Would you go eat out with a group headed by a vegetarian?Wife thought this was Old Town Shanghai on Mary in Sunnyvale when signing up on the Meetup group Castro Social to go to this restaurant. Went out with the six people of the group organized by Anna G, whom neither the wife nor I knew before hand was vegetarian. Hole in the wall place in shopping center on Rengstorff and Central next to the railroad tracks, with traffic backed up on all four sides. Took 6 minutes to get through the railroad crossing signals heading north on Rengstorff during rush hour waiting through two passing trains. Avoid rush hour railroad crossings at Mary, Castro and Rengstorff by crossing over the railroad tracks to Central through Shoreline. You can also use Mathilda in Sunnyvale or San Antonio in Palo Alto. Restaurant minimal ambiance, drafty with cold air coming inside the small eating area whenever anyone entered the glass front door. Temperature hot food had to be eaten immediately otherwise it wouldn't taste good, when it got cold. Ordered food at 5:25. Dishes arrived at 5:39 and shortly afterwards, except the Shanghai Pan fried soup dumplings and Cantonese shrimp dumplings which arrived at 6:09.$11 vegetable chow mein -standard fare, but small portion.$7 green onion pancakes -temperature hot and crispy, could have used more green onions but otherwise perfect. $14 cumin lamb -tasty mixture of thin slices of lamb and a heavy dose of cooked white onions with hot chilis to make it more spicy.$8 vegetable pot sticker -pan fried and firm, but didn't taste it. $9 marinated beef pancake roll -this was more of a wrap. Needed more vegetables inside to compliment the beef, liked the outside flour wrap. $10 Shanghai pan fried dumpling. Thick dough and little soup to go with pork. Received this 44 minutes after ordering. Lukewarm with the soup soaked into the bottom of the dumpling making it mushy.$12 green chive dumpling with eggs -not much flavor and didn't taste the egg. $6 vegetarian spring roll -didn't taste it. $11 vegetarian hot and sour- nice balance of vinegar and spice, with lots of tofu and bamboo shoots. Our leader Anna G didn't like her vegetarian hot and sour soup. My wife and I loved it, and doggy bagged it home. $12 Dan Dan Noodles -awesome spicy dish with bits of pork and lots of noodles perfectly cooked mixed in with cooked vegetables.$9 Cantonese shrimp dumpling. Received this order 44 minutes after by ordering, and it was still barely tasty but lukewarm. 8 tiny dumplings with small amount of shrimp inside. Serving sizes of the cumin lamb and the Dan Dan Noodles on the small side. Would not have ordered the Shanghai pan fried dumpling nor the shrimp dumpling if it would take 44 minutes to arrive lukewarm. Dishes sat around for some time after cooking, before being served. Even at 7pm, traffic backed up on Rengstorff South. Difficult to cross two lanes to get to the left most lane, to make a left turn onto Central. Anna G, we will gladly join you the next time you go to a BBQ place."
