The Verdict
MISSION CHINESE FOOD is Danny Bowien's Mission Street creative Chinese-American restaurant whose Kung Pao pastrami - the specific preparation whose Jewish deli pastrami applied through the Sichuan flavour culture communicates the most culturally transgressive available American culinary synthesis - established the restaurant as the most irreverent and the most creatively serious available American Chinese restaurant. The thrice-cooked bacon programme whose specific preparation communicates genuine knowledge of the Chinese pork culture applied through the American bacon tradition; the Kung Pao pastrami whose cultural synthesis communicates the most productively transgressive available intersection of the Jewish deli and Sichuan culinary traditions; and the Mission Street setting whose cultural diversity creates the most accepting available daily audience for the culinary boundary-crossing that defines the restaurant's identity.
The creative Chinese-American menu at Mission Chinese Food reflects Bowien's specific creative approach to the Chinese culinary vocabulary: the preparations whose compositions communicate genuine creative intelligence applied to the intersection of Chinese and American culinary traditions; the cultural synthesis whose specific transgressive quality communicates the productive result of applying the most irreverent available American creativity to the Chinese culinary format; and the Mission Street setting whose multicultural character creates the most culturally receptive available daily audience.
On Mission Street for the creative Chinese-American restaurant that communicates the most culturally transgressive available San Francisco culinary identity - the Kung Pao pastrami and thrice-cooked bacon applied with Danny Bowien's irreverent creative intelligence in the neighbourhood whose cultural diversity most naturally accommodates the transgression.
Why It Works for a Team Dinner
Mission Chinese Food's Mission Street creative Chinese-American programme and the Kung Pao pastrami - the cultural transgression, the shared plates, the neighbourhood energy - creates the team dinner that communicates the most irreverently creative available San Francisco Chinese dining experience.
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