{"id":49933,"date":"2025-11-12T18:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/49933\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T18:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:52:15","slug":"chinatowns-116-year-old-barbecue-noodle-roll-haven-still-reigns-supreme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/49933\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinatown\u2019s 116-Year-Old Barbecue Noodle Roll Haven Still Reigns Supreme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Following its <a href=\"https:\/\/sf.eater.com\/2025\/1\/16\/24345523\/sf-chinese-restaurant-sam-wo-closing-capitol-riot-arrest-molinari-sons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January closure<\/a>, a trio of chefs and restaurateurs conspired to reopen the 116-year-old Chinatown institution <a href=\"https:\/\/samworestaurant.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Wo<\/a> in September 2025. On the corner of Clay and Kearny streets, the restaurant that\u2019s kept the city fed since 1908, is much the same under new ownership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Its centenarian status helped define a genre of Chinese American restaurant. That means dark woods, family portraits on the wall, newspaper clippings across from the large window-front steamers and grills. Shotgun-style, this restaurant is more lowkey than lowkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following its January closure, a trio of chefs and restaurateurs conspired to reopen the 116-year-old Chinatown institution Sam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[28829,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-49933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-dining-reports","9":"tag-san-francisco","10":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","11":"tag-san-francisco-news","12":"tag-sf","13":"tag-sf-headlines","14":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}