Sohomei - San Francisco

This is the best authentic Chao Zhou style rice noodle wrap and porridge spot in town. I love the Laksa noodle soup as well. Small seating area offers great food selections. They use tiger shrimp for the rice noodle wrap. Very good quality

I came here twice and I give this place 5 star review. This place seems to be another ordinarily Chinese place, but their quality and portion of food are bigger and better than anticipated. I had Laska vermicelli and the bowl was big. The broth was tasty. It can become my comfort food. They also participate in senior program where seniors cam have discounts. I would come here more often.

Came here for lunch on a weekday wanted to try the Chinese/Vietnamese dishes. We had the laksa (it was fine, not outstanding) and the chicken rice (was ok, quite bony and not like chicken meets rice type of chicken rice). Might try to fried oyster omelette next time. Overall average restaurant.

We was looking for a porridge place, yelp pointed to the one across the street as number 1 on it list. As we park our car and walk, we see this place. The chao zhou rice roll caught my wife attention. She is from chao zhou. We when in and ask if for porridge. As we look at the menu, I recall this place use to be a Vietnamese pho place. And remember that it use to suck so bad that I never return after one try. I am part Vietnamese. And hate anything not authentic. We order chao zhou style pork and persevere egg porridge, chao zhou style beef and beef ball flat noodle, oyster pancake, and half a chicken baked. The noodle are on point, my kids ate most of it. The porridge are amazing. I like the pancake my wife didn’t. The gelatin in the pancake have to be there to keep the oyster in one piece. So nothing wrong with that. We got too full to eat all of the chicken. But the service was good fast and polite. The food are definitely authentic. It bring back my memories of eating noodle in my wife’s hometown. Yes it is similar to pho but the soup is what made it different. Btw pho probably came from chao zhou. We will be back to try the rice roll, maybe for lunch for rice roll is a better fit.

In trying to find another new spot to try I came upon this new place in the Sunset. I recall this location previously being a pho joint but now SoHoMei has taken over. I think the name made me chuckle so it was worth a try! “Ho Mei” means tastes good so according to my Chinglish (Chinese English) the name (to me) means tastes so good! ?The menu looks pretty simple but because of the offerings I was confused as to the exact style of the cuisine! Was it Cantonese, Chiu Chow, Malaysian, all three?!!!? I still don’t know! But one thing I do know, is the food was pretty tasty. We ordered the oyster pancake, beef rice roll, fried rice and chicken porridge. I liked the oyster pancake except for the post that I but I to that had a gelatinous texture that made me think the mixture may not have been well mixed! The fried rice was a hit with us I mean c’mon it’s got spam so we killed off a lot of it. I wanted to point out that the fried rice is topped with dried shredded pork so it adds a little sweetness to the salty spam and Chinese sausage. We also liked the different beef rice roll texture that is not your run of the mill dim sum style but tastes really good after marinating in the sweet soy on the bottom. And finally, the chicken porridge is the other dish we had which is super tasty but the chicken meat comes bone in so be careful eating it. One of my table mates commented that he would have preferred it being boneless. The bill (I included a pic) was $65.50. Im a little torn about paying $0.50 per to go box since the place down the block charges $0.25. The extra $1.50 charge bugged me a little since I really didn’t know how much food to order and the portion size. Be forewarned that if you don’t want to pay the $0.50 per container bring your own! Also, if you pay cash, you get a 5% discount that covers you container fee! ?And finally I didn’t have the desert dry mouth later that evening that comes with MSG overload so I took that as a good sign.. ?