Tired of hamburgers I was looking for something tasty and I looked up this restaurant on Google. Oh surprise!!! The food that I ordered was very tasty, I hot the specialty; Hainan Rice&Chicken. I tried this dish in San Jose and it is actually very good here. Definitely I'll comeback. I almost forget to take pictures but I has half way done when I remember.
I really want to like this place but it's a letdown unfortunately. This place attracted its customers (including me) because it's rumored to be associated with the owner of Koi Palace. The place has all the ingredients of a good place if you don't want to wait in lines for some dim sum or a quick bite and the food looks great. However the biggest missing piece is the taste. For example the Har Gow (shrimp dumplings) are huge but not only the skins break apart easily (not good) but that the shrimps are not fully cooked. Maybe because of the undercooked shrimp flavors do not permeate within the Har Gow when you bite into it. The Hainan chicken is not very tender and the pork belly is over cooked so not as juicy as it could be. Overall, it's missing the flavor part of a good restaurant.
Stick & Steam makes delicious and very reasonably priced dim sums ?The mala seafood ? and pan-fried XLB are great. Chicken wings and mala spiced chicken and rice are also very good.
Fresh and lovely wonton, just the right size, chicken wings fried perfectly although a bit stronger seasoning would be great. 小籠包 is also perfectly size and juicy with the skin just right thickness.
The food here is fresh and good and the service is okay. There is outdoor seating, which is quite sunny without shade, and adjacent to the road. The price is a bit on the high side for what it is.
I ordered through Postmates and got drunken noodles and yellow coconut curry. Not only did the delivery get here early (!!!), both dishes were AMAZING! I picked medium spicy for the drunken noodles with a side of crunchy pork. Each bite was perfect. I wanted to keep eating after I was full just because it was so good. My fiance had the coconut curry and he was in love from the first bite.If you're craving legit Thai food, order here!
My wife and I visited for the first time for lunch today. The outside of the restaurant looks more like a trendy gourmet burger joint than a typical place for Asian food. The laminated single sheet 2-sided menu had a limited selection, but it had enough popular Hong Kong style comfort food lunch plates to satisfy, including a small selection of dim sum and boba drinks. The service was quick and the food was delicious. We were impressed with a dish sanitizer which looks like a clear door refrigerator placed at the entrance to the dining room. This small eatery, owned by the same owners as the popular Koi Palace, has a selection of frozen dim sum you can buy to cook at home.
Wanton noodles is so good. Realized they were part of koi palace. Will definitely be back
Stick & Steam is a good small place to get some dim sum, beef noodles, baked rice, or Hainan chicken rice, all in one restaurant. The food is good, but not as good as the restaurants that specialize in the single genre. That said, it definitely satisfied the different cravings our family had. The food came out quickly, the service was pleasant, and most importantly the food was good enough to come again. While I personally wouldn’t go out of my way to come here, if you’re in the Millbrae area and want to try some good Chinese comfort food, this place is worth a try.One more thing - everyone raves about the salted egg fries, but I thought they were only okay. Now the sea bass…..that’s something to rave about.
Boneless Chicken Rice Was Excellent. Chilli Sauce was top notch. Only thing about the chilli sauce is you can't get calamansi and they most likely used lime which has a slightly different flavor. Excellent overall. Will come back again for sure.