{"id":519,"date":"2008-05-12T17:39:44","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T17:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=519"},"modified":"2008-05-12T17:39:44","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T17:39:44","slug":"blossom-chinese-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2008\/05\/blossom-chinese-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Blossom Chinese Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I <a href=\"\/food\/blog\/2008\/04\/good_food_restaurant_is_now_bl.html\">reported here<\/a> a couple of weeks ago, <b>Blossom<\/b> is the last restaurant to occupy the space on East 14th previously taken by Good Food and Szechuan Restaurant.  I will bet that it won&#8217;t be the last.<br \/>\nWe ordered food from there Saturday, when I was too involved in the preparations for my birthday party that evening (which I&#8217;ll soon blog about), to attend to lunch.  Kathy suggested it because they delivered, and I always want to try new places in town.  Oh well.<br \/>\nBlossom offers your typical Chinese restaurant menu also at typical prices &#8211; generally $6-9 for entrees.  The portions are large, though not as large as those of other restaurants, which is not necessarily a bad thing.  My problem was with the food itself.<br \/>\nWe found the fried wontons ($3.25) to be a bit limp &#8211; though that may be because they don&#8217;t travel well.  In any case, I like them crispier.<br \/>\nThe sweet &#038; sour pork ($6) had a lot of breading, little pork and a syrupy sauce that just didn&#8217;t taste good.  Nobody liked it.  Mike and Kathy did like the Szechuan beef ($6.55), but I thought it was very one-dimensional, it was too spicy for the kids to try.  None of us liked the orange flavored chicken ($6), full, scrawny chicken wings with a thick, spicy sauce.  They were difficult to eat and just not very tasty.  The chicken chow mein ($5) was pretty good, Mika liked it.<br \/>\nIn all, I was unhappy with Blossom and I see no reason to order from there again.  <a href=\"\/food\/rest\/nhk.html\">New Hong Kong<\/a> also delivers and is much better.<br \/>\nBlossom Chinese Restaurant<br \/>\n14807 E. 14th St.<br \/>\nSan Leandro, CA<br \/>\n510-614-8112<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/food\/rest\/sl.html\">San Leandro Restaurant Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I reported here a couple of weeks ago, Blossom is the last restaurant to occupy the space on East 14th previously taken by Good Food and Szechuan Restaurant. I will bet that it won&#8217;t be the last. We ordered food from there Saturday, when I was too involved in the preparations for my birthday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}