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About this blog: I am a perpetually hungry twenty-something journalist, born and raised in Menlo Park and currently working at the Palo Alto Weekly as education and youth staff writer. I graduated from USC with a major in Spanish and a minor in jo...
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About this blog: I am a perpetually hungry twenty-something journalist, born and raised in Menlo Park and currently working at the Palo Alto Weekly as education and youth staff writer. I graduated from USC with a major in Spanish and a minor in journalism. Though my first love is journalism, food is a close second. I am constantly on the lookout for new restaurants to try, building an ever-expanding "to eat" list. As a journalist, I'm always trolling news sources and social media websites with an eye for local food news, from restaurant openings and closings to emerging food trends. When I was a teenager growing up in Menlo Park, I always drove up to the city on weekends with the singular purpose of finding a better meal than I could at home. But in the past year or so, the Peninsula's food culture has been totally transformed, with many new restaurants opening and a continuous stream of San Francisco restaurants coming south to open Peninsula outposts. Don't navigate this food boom hungry and alone! Feed me your tips on new chefs and eats and together we'll share them with the broader community.
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Opening alert: Dumpling Garden in Mountain View
Uploaded: May 15, 2018
Dumpling Garden quietly opened in a Mountain View strip mall last month, serving handmade dumplings and other traditional Chinese fare.
Less than a month after opening, the 108 N. Rengstorff Ave. restaurant had a famous visitor: none other than model Tyra Banks.
Tyra Banks poses for a photo at Mountain View restaurant Dumpling Garden with owner Kenny Qiu. Photo courtesy Kenny Qiu.
"She was specifically looking for dumplings," said owner Kenny Qiu.
Banks, wearing a grey sweatshirt and a leopard headscarf, ordered pork and shrimp dumplings, soup dumplings, popcorn chicken, sautéed pea shoots with garlic and cucumber salad, Qiu said. (She was with her family and young son.) She also bought frozen dumplings to take home with her.
Dumpling Garden is Qiu's first restaurant. A former IBM engineer and native of southern China, he recently decided he wanted to start his own business and opted to open a restaurant. He did so with the help of his brother, who runs a dumpling restaurant in San Francisco.
Qiu took over the Rengstorff Avenue space after Chinese restaurant Bamboo Garden closed.
At Dumpling Garden, all dumplings and noodles are handmade with the "highest quality" ingredients, Qiu said. The large
menu also includes meat and seafood entrees, soups, clay pot dishes and other items.
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