Good food since the 1906 quake so hope that continues

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..I've been to Sam Wo many years ago and the food was good:

Why this 117-year-old S.F. Chinatown restaurant may close

Sam Wo, one of the most venerable restaurants in San Francisco’s Chinatown, could be closing.

Co-owner David Jitong Ho plans to step away from the 117-year-old business at 713 Clay St., first reported by the SF Standard. If he doesn’t find a new owner by January 2025, when the lease expires, the restaurant will have to close, said co-owner Steven Lee.

“Were not giving up yet, but it’s a struggle to find the right replacement,” Lee told the Chronicle.

Sam Wo originally opened shortly after the 1906 earthquake. It’s a Chinatown fixture, known for affordable Cantonese food and as a community hub for the neighborhood. The late Edsel Ford Fung, known as “the world’s rudest waiter,” worked there. Former Chronicle restaurant critic Soleil Ho named Sam Wo one of the Bay Area’s best Chinese restaurants, lauding the “tender and toothsome” steamed rice rolls with char siu and “generously portioned and comforting” rice porridge with a fried doughnut on the side. On a recent trip to Washington D.C., Rep. Adam Schiff told Lee he ate at Sam Wo often as a young college student in the Bay Area.