Convoy District Food Crawl: San Diego’s Best Asian Food Neighborhood
If you ask a San Diego local where to eat — not where to take out-of-towners, where they actually eat — Convoy District comes up more than anywhere else. It’s a dense strip of Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Japanese restaurants along Convoy Street, mostly in unassuming strip malls.
What to Order
- Hand-pulled noodles at one of several Xi’an-style spots — watch them stretch the dough by hand before it hits the wok.
- Taiwanese breakfast — soy milk, scallion pancakes, and rice rolls, best eaten before 11am at the neighborhood’s handful of Taiwanese breakfast counters.
- Hot pot — Convoy has some of the best hot pot options in Southern California; go with a group so you can order more broths and ingredients.
- Korean BBQ — several spots here stay open late, making it a good option after an evening out.
How to Approach It
Don’t judge a restaurant by its storefront — some of the best food in the district is in a strip mall unit with no English signage. If a place has a line of local families outside, that’s the signal to wait.
Local Tip
Convoy District gets genuinely busy on weekend evenings. If you want a table without a wait, go on a weeknight or arrive right at opening.
Getting There
Convoy District is about 10 minutes from Serra Mesa — arguably the single best reason to book a Serra Mesa rental instead of staying downtown or on the coast.
