Peter's Place Chinese Restaurant

This place has pastries. Tried both the pumpkin and red bean with mochi pastries. The pumpkin was fresh made, not canned and not like pumpkin pie but like kombucha--a light sweetness. The red bean with mochi filling was very sweet, in a good way, with a wonderful, glutinous mouthfeel. Also came for their thick and thin green onion pancakes. Both are good--the thin ones are more about the crispy texture, the thick ones are more about the green onions flavor. The show stoppers were the pork belly bun and their green leek pastry which was a giant empanada stuffed with green onions, vermicelli, egg, and ground meat. Yum!

A home style dishes restaurant with a Taiwanese flavor in their cooking. And on Saturday they have a special breakfast menu that features soy milk, both sweet and salty versions, green onion pancakes, egg biscuits, beef biscuits, xiaolungbao, among others. The only place in Torrance with this offering.

I've never eaten the food but this place has the best shaved ice in town! This is not Hawaiian shave ice, but Taiwanese shaved ice. They have such great toppings: boba, tapioca, pudding, jello, rice balls, condensed milk. Great on a hot day, but Ive still gone in the dead of winter. It might not be on the main menu, but ask for the shaved ice menu, it's worth it.