Simmer & Steamer

Taiwanese hot pot and steamer restaurant with individual broth selections, fresh ingredients, and a broad Asian comfort food menu.

Simmer & Steamer keeps Korean comfort food focused on rice bowls at its University Avenue location in Palo Alto. Bulgogi beef, gochujang chicken, and grilled pork belly offer different savory centerpieces, with kimchi, egg, sesame, and crisp onion flakes adding contrast. We like the straightforward format, which makes a complete meal out of a few well-defined components. The Super Bowl combines chicken, pork belly, and beef for diners who do not want to choose just one. Tofu and kimchi rice offers another direction, while japchae brings glass noodles and vegetables into the selection. Beef dumplings, a mozzarella corn dog, and honey pastry provide small additions, and Korean drinks such as sikhye rice punch continue the theme. Simmer & Steamer's appeal is a compact menu that makes its Korean flavors easy to mix, match, and enjoy as an individual meal.