I'm from San Francisco and we had the BEST Mom and Pop Chinese restaurants, one haunt was in Chinatown and three stories high...you didn't order, they had a dumb waiter and brought you the days specials, and when I say good, trust me, plus very inexpensive. They never gave you forks, one way to know it's authentic, and when we moved to L.A., there were no good places, so we stopped eating Chinese and started exploring Deli's, of which they are better here. We found the three best in the city and 40 years later, there still here, as good as ever. We do have many Mom and Pop Thai, but sorry not a lover. Chains just don't cut it.
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