Yeah I also find this hard to believe. The easiest way to find authentic Chinese food and Asian food in the Bay Area is to look around a 99 Ranch market. Ther

Yeah I also find this hard to believe. The easiest way to find authentic Chinese food and Asian food in the Bay Area is to look around a 99 Ranch market. There's one in Fremont, which I imagine is where you went, but there's also one in Daly City, and one in Milpitas. There are TONS of authentic Asian restaurants around each of those locations. Like more than you can believe. Unless you think that all the grandmas eating there are on a Saturday night or Sunday morning are all confused about what they're eating. (You can't make a good Asian restaurant with ingredients from Costco or Safeway, so you have to follow the supplier ...) What I will say is that if you are a "tech person" who lives in SF, it's pretty hard to find an authentic Asian restaurant. If you live in SOMA or the Mission, there is almost exclusively the over-sauced Americanized stuff that people here are mentioning. You have to "try" -- the "default" is to eat bad Asian food. It's hard to get over to Geary St. on a weekday. There's stuff in Chinatown that is good, but honestly I've found it hard to sort through. Another easy way is to tell is to see if there's a whole fish on the menu... Americanized places won't have that. One surprising/nice thing about the rise of the delivery apps is that it's made some of the food from the western part of the city more accessible. It opens up some different flavors/cooking.