Hunan House

Classic Chinatown restaurant. It is an old feeling establish with dated decor. Upstairs, there's karaoke. The menu is mainly family style dishes or hot pot. There's only one page for noodles and rice dishes on the menu for single diners. I had the spicy wonton with chili oil $10 and a seafood pan fried noodle $15. The spicy wontons is low on spice heat scale but good spicy. My crispy Hong Kong style noodles had good wok flavor with huge pieces of fish, shrimps and squid. The only drawback is they drowned it in sauce making it not crispy anymore. Rookie mistake. Service was excellent as I was the only downstairs customer at 9:30pm. Well done staff at Hunan House.

We visited this place during our road trip to San Francisco with a thought that this place might be a good choice since it’s not easy to make authentic Hunan food. It was stem winding, really, along with their quick serving and perfect seasoning. We only ordered two dishes, Mapo tofu and sweet and sour pork due to low attendance, however, those two dishes were very tasty for eating rice with. I have been Hunan so I know what I’m talking about. Also it’s shocking that the owner is actually from Hong Kong.

Food was delicious. Their hot &sour soup may be the best I have tasted. Menu is mostly a la carte (which wasn't clear to me when reading it). Service started great but left us disappointed. We were seated quickly and served tea right away. After we ordered, we were mostly ignored which would have been fine if they hadn't forgotten a couple of the items we ordered. Prices and portion size are pretty reasonable. Also, both bathrooms were pretty gross.

It’s pretty authentic Chinese food here. As someone who spent her time in Hunan in the summer and winter holidays, I would say this is excellent. You’ve got the deep fire, the bombastic taste and ancient murals on the wall. It’s old and generations. They got the Lao Huo (old fire) burning here. I like their pork belly rice plate. It comes with soup. Make sure you ask for it :)

The food was amazing, we had sweet and sour chicken, orange peel chicken, sesame chicken and shrimp in lobster sauce, all were delicious especially the latter. Highly recommended for dinner. Also, Tsingtao beer went really well with the food. The service was nice, they serve tea upon sitting down as well.

We have never tried Hunan-style food so we ordered the Hunan pork ribs. So flavorful, perfect amount of spicy, delicious! It's definitely something we don't have back home in the Midwest where Chinese restaurants typically tone down all the flavoring for the sake of white Midwestern taste which prefers more bland food. The only thing to note about this dish is that it looks like a large dish that can feed two people but it can only feed one. Most of it is fried peppers. We also got the dumplings which were very good.