Henry's Hunan

My gosh, it's been over a week since my last post. It's been a whirlwind of a week. Why, you ask? Well, I'm not ready to jinx anything yet, but big things are (hopefully) coming! But for now, you get to hear about Henry's Hunan. Henry's is a small Chinese chain in San Francisco. It has only about three outposts, the newest of which is on Church Street near 28th. We've never walked in because the name makes it sound like a fast food joint, but we were very pleasantly surprised after stumbling upon Henry's today.

First off, great service! I am not one to complain about the brusque, minimal service at casual Chinese dives. Heck, even fancy Chinese restaurants usually have worse service than your average hamburger joint. But at Henry's, the server (owner?) was welcoming, attentive, and brought us complimentary hot and sour soup. Henry's version is definitely on the sour side, which I like, and the soup had a nice depth of flavor and plenty of fixin's.

J and I shared the salted ham and egg fried rice. It was a huge portion for $7.50! Even greasy spoon Chinese places don't always serve this much for $7.50, and they certainly don't use such delicious, smoky, flavor packed ham cut into such generous pieces. We were prepared to order an appetizer in case one order of rice wasn't enough, but after the soup this was plenty. A pretty incredible lunch for two for under $10. It's too bad Henry's on Church is too out of the way to make a destination, I could really use a great place to order fried rice for those days when cooking just doesn't happen (er...like this week). But I'll happily check out one of their other branches some time.