Where’s Seattle’s Kung Pao Corned Beef?

A weekend trip to San Francisco revealed what we’re really missing in the Seattle restaurant food scene.

I’ve long lamented the lack of good Chinese restaurants in Seattle (okay, there are a couple of good Sichuan places on the Eastside), as well as good Jewish delis.

Inside a Mission Street restaurant called Lung Shan is Mission Chinese Food. Consider this hole-in-the-wall a restaurant-inside-a-restaurant. Ownership is the same as Commonwealth, which served my favorite meal of the trip, but this was right up there. One of the dishes: kung pao corned beef (actually made with pastrami).

Delicious. Great Chinese food meets Jewish deli. I’ll take one of either in Seattle—and maybe, someday, both.