Hunan's Home

North Beach & Chinatown


Find something for everyone at this bustling Chinatown joint with a vast, crowd-pleasing menu – choose anything with Hunan-style vinegary-savory sauce or piquant fermented black bean, minus tinny baby corn and bamboo shoots. Sizzling rice plates deliver drama, but Hunan Home's mu shu (pork pancakes) and sweet-and-sour are comforting Chinese American classics served to generations of Chinatown regulars since 1983.


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