PPQ Dungeness Island

Just because you're looking at me with those beady eyes does not mean I won't eat you!

As I mentioned in my previous blog, I was going to visit a restaurant called PPQ. This place is famous for their garlic noodles and the way they prepare their crab. So having heard so much about the infamous garlic noodles and crabs, my friends and I decided, it was time to go try it for ourselves and see what all the hype was about.

For four people, we ordered the 2 people set dinner which included: egg rolls, chicken salad, garlic noodles, roasted crab and fried bananas with mango ice cream. Since none of us really wanted a salad, we substituted the salad for a crab fried rice which we had to pay extra for since there was a slight price difference. Which is fine since it's better than ordering something that we all knew we probably wouldn't enjoy.


Here is a look at the bowl of garlic noodles and in the background is the plate of crab fried rice. And of course, the picture above is of our roasted crab. The bowl is about your average average bowl. Think about those giant bowls with and handle to look like a giant coffee cup, that but a tiny little bit bigger.

Now to talk about the food. Lets start with our appetizer, egg rolls, they were your standard Vietnamese fried egg rolls. The plate came with four egg rolls and dipping sauce. It was quite delicious. Then we got our garlic noodles and crab fried rice. The garlic noodles were alright, it had a hint of garlic. Not enough garlic for it to be called garlic noodles if you ask me. The crab fried rice was definitely not anything special. But I guess they did use real crab meat which is always a plus. However, the rice was too hard and tasted kind of like the cooked rice that sits at the bottom of the rice cooker that no body wanted. The roasted crab was disappointing. I was expecting like a nice pan roasted crab but out came a crab sitting in a puddle of sauce. What a deceiving name. Usually crab just has this delicious sweet seafoody flavor all by itself, but this one needed help quite some from the sauce that it was drowned in. As for dessert, fried bananas and mango ice cream. Mango ice cream was yummy, not sure about fried bananas cause personally I'm not a fan of fruit that is warm.

Overall, for the price, around $60 split between 4 people it was alright. Didn't leave the place stuffed to the brim, but I guess a meal is a meal. Would I come back again? Probably not unless I was forced to. I'm guessing I was expecting it to be super good cause of all the hype on yelp and from friends.

Let me know what you think of the place if you decide to visit it for yourselves. Or if you've already been, let me know what you thought of it. =D

If you guys would like to visit this restaurant, here is the info:
PPQ Dungeness Island
2332 Clement St
San Francisco, CA
(415) 386-8266