[San Gabriel] [Chinese] Kingburg Kitchen

Kingburg Kitchen
金寶美食坊
715 W Las Tunas Dr
San Gabriel, CA 91776
(626) 282-2386

I read about Kingburg Kitchen on Pepsi Monster's blog.  I didn't know about this restaurant even though I pass by it all the time.  Pepsi Monster raved about the food and made me want to try it right away.  So I took my mom and brother there for lunch.



Kinburg Kitchen is located at the corner El Pollo Loco plaza across from Golden Deli plaza. 




They serve dumplings, noodle, and buns.  The Taiwanese style fried bun is the item that made me really want to try this place.


泡菜 Pickled Cabbage

After we sat down, the friendly waitress brought the menu and overly sweet pickled cabbage.  The waitress was friendly alright, but she was also friendly pushy.  After we ordered more than enough food, she still try to push us to order even more food.  "Do you also want an order of xxx dumpling?  It's really good.  No?  Then do you want to try an order of xxx buns?  We just made it fresh earlier.  No, too much food?  Then why don't you buy xxx to take http://www.eileenlikestoeat.com?  We also sell frozen dumplings to take http://www.eileenlikestoeat.com.  One order of xxx dumplings, ok?  No?  How about one order of frozen xxx buns?"  I find this selling tactic very annoying.  Also since they boasted about their Taiwanese style fried bun, I was expecting this place to be a Taiwanese restaurant.  But it wasn't.  It was mainly China style with mainly China waitress. 


全麥養生饅頭 Whole Wheat Bun ($1.75)

The whole wheat bun was one of the item that the waitress was trying to sell.  My mom gave in and ordered one.  The waitress said, "Ok.  I'll make one for you using microwave right now and pack the other one frozen for you to take http://www.eileenlikestoeat.com.  It tastes better if you steam it at http://www.eileenlikestoeat.com."  So I assume one order has 2 buns since my mom clearly only ordered 1.  But later when I checked the bill, we found out the waitress actually gave us 2 orders.  Now that was just wrong.  To me, that was cheating your customer.  Back to the food, the whole wheat bun was tasty.  It had raisins, sunflower seeds and walnut with a little bit sweetness. 


牛肉湯麵 Beef Noodle in Spicy Soup ($6.50)

Kingburg has really good combo deal.  Any noodle plus 5 dumplings combo for $6.00.  If you want fish or the pork/sea cucumber/shrimp dumplings, then it's $7.00.  Since noodle is $6.50, it's actually cheaper to order a combo than order the noodle alone.  My brother got the beef noodle.  The broth was a bit spicy.  The noodle wasn't bad, but there was nothing too special about it.


土雞湯麵 Noodle in Mushroom Chicken Soup ($6.50)

Mom and I shared the chicken soup noodle.  I really like the clear broth.  Rich mushroom and chicken flavor, but very light. 


Dumplings

2 orders of combo.  So I had 10 dumplings total.


龍利水餃 Sole Fish with Leeks Boiled Dumpling

The fish dumpling was pretty good.  It was a huge dumpling full of filling. 


白菜水餃 Pork and Chinese Cabbage Dumplings

Pork and cabbage dumpling was quite good as well.  My brother liked this one a lot.


生煎包 Fried Buns

One order of fried buns has 6 of them.  It was about $8 per order.  A little pricey in my opinion.  But I was really craving for Taiwanese fried buns so we ordered 2.


三鮮生煎包 Pork, Sea Cucumber, Shrimp Fried Buns ($8.00)

I didn't think I tasted any sea cucumber nor shrimp in this "3 items" bun.  But I did see very very very tiny pieces of sea cucumber and shrimp mixing in with the pork.  But this tasted more like pork bun.  I took a few bite and thought "there's nothing Taiwanese about this bun".  I really don't know how they can call this Taiwanese fried bun because it tasted nothing like the fried buns I had in Taiwan.  The taste was different.  The dough of the bun was way off.  Just because they fried the bun on both sides like how Taiwanese do their fried bun, does not make this a Taiwanese style fried bun.  The bun wasn't bad (not that great either).  But it was just false advertisement. 


素生煎包 Vegetarian Fried Bun ($6.50)

I like the vegetarian fried bun better than the 3 items fried bun.  It had tons of tofu, mushroom and green veggies.



My mom thought this place was just ok.  No desire to come back again.  My brother thought the combo was a great deal and probably will be back with his friends.  I thought the dumplings were good and I like the chicken soup.  But I really dislike the service here and the Taiwanese fried bun was a scam.  Since I feel cheated when the waitress added an extra order of bun for us, I will never go back to this restaurant again.

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