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# Mr. SiuMai, San Jose CA: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-jose/mr-siumai-san-jose-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-10-26.

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## In short

Mr. SiuMai is a dim sum restaurant in San Jose, CA. Its AI Score is 28 of 100, which is poor.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Dim sum restaurant |
| Address | 2070 N Capitol Ave, San Jose, CA 95132, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sun 8:30 AM to 8 PM |
| Phone | (408) 708-7182 |
| Rating | 3.9 across 164 reviews on Google |
| Updated | October 26, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 2070 N Capitol Ave, San Jose, CA 95132, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Contemporary Chinese restaurant serving authentic Dim Sum, noodles, and Asian dishes. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 8:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Mr. SiuMai | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (408) 708-7182 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 8:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 8:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 8:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 8:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 8:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 8:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 8:30 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Asian dishes | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Boba tea | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Boba tea dessert | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Dessert | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Dim sum | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Handheld | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Hot pot | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Kiosk ordering | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Noodles | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Online ordering | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Ramen | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Restaurant reservation | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Restaurant reservation app | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Sushi | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Waitlist | From their website | Business website |
| Links | Website | https://pos.chowbus.com/online-ordering/store/Mr-SiuMai/14857 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

These are the 7 services Mr. SiuMai offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Boba tea dessert |  |  |  | From their website |
| Online ordering |  |  |  | From their website |
| Handheld |  |  |  | From their website |
| Hot pot |  |  |  | From their website |
| Waitlist |  |  |  | From their website |
| Kiosk ordering |  |  |  | From their website |
| Restaurant reservation app |  |  |  | From their website |


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## The team

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## Visiting Mr. SiuMai

Address: 2070 N Capitol Ave, San Jose, CA 95132, USA. Phone: (408) 708-7182. Hours: Mon to Sun 8:30 AM to 8 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "Contemporary Chinese restaurant serving authentic Dim Sum, noodles, and Asian dishes."


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tylan cafe | Cafe | 1 min walk |
| Pho Kim Long | Vietnamese restaurant | 1 min walk |
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## Reputation

3.9 average across 164 reviews: Google 164. (Confirmed, read October 26, 2026.)

Mr. SiuMai offers a wide variety of dim sum, but inconsistent food quality and service issues have led to mixed reviews. (AI guess, from 164 reviews.)


### What people like

- Fresh and flavorful siu mai
- Variety of dim sum options
- Crispy pork belly


### What people do not like

- Food quality inconsistent
- Long waits for food and service
- Underprepared dishes


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## Questions people ask


### is San Jose expensive for this, or is it just here


### picking between the two, is Tai Pan the safer bet?


### same day tables, does that ever happen here


### pricey at Mr. SiuMai, or about normal?


### lunch near Capitol, what is good


### what time does Mr. SiuMai in San Jose actually open?


### address for Mr. SiuMai, anyone have it?


### people keep recommending this place, what for?


### discounts for coming back, is that a thing


### genuinely, what is good about this one


### Booking a first visit here, what happens?


### do I need to leave early to find a space


### when is this place actually dead?


### anyone at Mr. SiuMai people keep going back to?


### weekends at Mr. SiuMai, are they open?


### last update from here was when?


### prices round here, anyone got a number


### waiting list, how long are we talking


### best dim sum restaurant in San Jose, CA


### anything people actually moan about here?


## The AI Score: 28 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Dim sum restaurants on the registry run 24 to 47. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Mr. SiuMai scores 28. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Mr. SiuMai |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 39 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 |  | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. |  |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 74 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 66 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Good |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 12 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 57 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about a dim sum restaurant: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Mr. SiuMai |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mr. SiuMai | LocalBusiness | #business | https://pos.chowbus.com/online-ordering/store/Mr-SiuMai/14857 | Subject of this page |
| San Jose, California | City | #city |  | City Mr. SiuMai is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the dim sum restaurants in San Jose, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best dim sum restaurants in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose/dim-sum-restaurant
- Best businesses in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose


### Nearby

- /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles
- /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco
- /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego
- /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine
- /mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view
- /santa-clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJHUjtlUnPj4ARvHzhvI9MRl8 (accessed Oct 26, 2026)
- [2] pos.chowbus.com, https://pos.chowbus.com/business-types/boba-tea-dessert (accessed Oct 26, 2026)
- [3] pos.chowbus.com, https://pos.chowbus.com/products/online-ordering (accessed Oct 26, 2026)
- [4] pos.chowbus.com, https://pos.chowbus.com/products/handheld (accessed Oct 26, 2026)
- [5] pos.chowbus.com, https://pos.chowbus.com/business-types/hot-pot (accessed Oct 26, 2026)
- [6] pos.chowbus.com, https://pos.chowbus.com/products/restaurant-reservation-app (accessed Oct 26, 2026)
- [7] pos.chowbus.com, https://pos.chowbus.com/products/kiosk-ordering (accessed Oct 26, 2026)
- [8] pos.chowbus.com, https://pos.chowbus.com/business-types/sushi-ramen (accessed Oct 26, 2026)
- [9] pos.chowbus.com, https://pos.chowbus.com/products/waitlist (accessed Oct 26, 2026)
- [10] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 26, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Oct 26, 2026)