Juàn Xiāng Easterly Millbrae

If you ask me say a couple years ago I'll probably give this restaurant maybe 2-3 stars because I didn't really enjoy the food as much. It's almost directly across the street from another Hunan restaurant so I ignored this restaurant for a couple of yearsafter one not so great visit. However, recently I really enjoy this restaurant for some unique dishes and even prefer this overthe other Hunan restaurant Wonderful across from the street. What I mean is that this restaurant has a more traditionalflavor/chopping than Wonderful (I don't know why but the pieces are sometimes too big in Wonderful that you felt like the onechopping the ingredients doesn't know how to properly prepare in Chinese food). There are also interesting flavors such asdifferent styles/types of chili peppers used. They also use interesting ingredients such as lotus tip and pickled long bean thatare really rare in most Chinese restaurants here. The waitress is also super friendly and efficient even though she's often theonly one waiting on all the tables.

All items were exceeding expectations. Stor fried minced pork with droed cucmber peels was spicy and tasty. Tofu was well cooked and was hot. The largest portion waa stir fried boned chicken with pepper and garlic. We separately ordered portions of rice ansnoodles???? Eggplant with minced prok , garlic and cilantro was my favorite dish of the day. Squid with tentacles was thespiciest dish yet was very tasty. Must visit place

The glass noodles were mostly oily noodles and I wish there was more ingredients inside for $15. They also had a red rice pork dish that tasted ok to me, but my partner liked it.

Good place to have some real taste of Chinese XIANG cuisine . We didn 't order many dishes as we only have two people. Stir-fry green beans is a good choice for some greens and you can 't go wrong for white rice with these dishes!

I called to order ask for recommendations. The lady was so impatient and rude. She asked me to look online and call back. The thing is even if I look online, how do I know which one is the best? Don't go some place like this. Bad service ever.