I'm very happy to hear that Cooking Papa will be trying its hand at a second South Bay location. Hopefully, it'll be more like the FC location than the rather cramped/crowded SC location.
I know you forgot the address, but was it an El Camino Real address or some side street? I sort of have some ideas of where it could be.
The specific address is - 1616 W El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA - where an Austin's BBQ chain restaurant used to sit. The lot has been vacant for... a decade or so? I think it's just the right size for Cooking Papa.
https://www.google.com/maps?q=&layer=c&z=17&iwloc=A&sll=37.390283,-122.092669&cbp=13,7.3,0,0,0&cbll=37.390186,-122.092685&sa=X&ei=9yCjUa6hD6jtigKa3YDgBw&ved=0CDIQxB0wAA
Fu Lam Mum's dinner is mediocre, and the cafe next door is even weaker. Joy Luck, Dynasty and even Saigon trump it handily. Kinda like Lei Garden, they have a more ambitious / interesting menu than they can execute. For example, they were recently advertising Choi-Bong-Hai for $35 (the crab-egg-whites dish that Koi Palace / Yum's Bistro do well), but I have doubts that they could execute it given that they can't even do the basics well. Castro's recent revitalization in restaurants has drawn us there frequently, and even on weekends at dinner, they fail to pack the house (on the lower level - the upper level is all but vacant now).
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