All Season Restaurant

I wanted to like this restaurant, for nostalgia sake at least, because it inhabits the old Yet Wah location in Diamond Heights where I'd eaten many a great Chinese meal. The staff was welcoming, it was loaded with Chinese families, always a good sign, but nothing good came from the kitchen.

The won ton soup looked good, vegetables were not overcooked, but something was missing in the broth. It was so bland we had to add soy sauce and chili paste just to give it some flavor, any flavor at all. If broth is going to be the largest component of the soup, it should taste like something.

Chinese Chicken Salad as you can see was mostly lettuce and fried mung bean noodle, with very little chicken and a lackluster dressing. In fairness, no one has ever been able to surpass the Yet Wah chicken salad with plum sauce salad dressing and chopped peanuts. Every other I've tried has been a disappointment, but this was an abysmal failure.

 

Now we're getting somewhere, the Sweet & Sour Pork was well prepared with decent chunks of pork fried in a batter. It was all pork,  no signs of pineapple, bell pepper, or onion, but perhaps that is not traditional, although it seems usual in most other Chinese restaurants. No points off for lack of vegetables, but the sauce was again very bland.

Finally, a good, well seasoned dish that I could return for or recommend, if only everything else was better. However, the Walnut Prawns did live up to expectations and were as good as any others I have eaten. For a restaurant with "season" in its name, this place lacked seasoning in all but one of the four dishes we tried. I hear the dim sum is very good,  but this restaurant is overpriced for its sub par to average food, so I'm in no hurry to give it a try.

5238 Diamond Heights Bl
San Francisco, CA 94131
(415) 282-8883