A spread of food at Dao Artisan Noodle. The San Leandro restaurant specializes in Lanzhou-style hand-pulled noodles and other dough-based Northern Chinese dishes. (Thien Pham)

The Midnight Diners is a regular collaboration between KQED food editor Luke Tsai and graphic novelist Thien Pham . Follow them each week as they explore the hot pot restaurants, taco carts and 24-hour casino buffets that make up the Bay Area’s after-hours dining scene.

Tucked away in an unassuming suburban neighborhood in San Leandro, the 88 Manor Market shopping plaza had all but shut down for the night by the time we pulled up at 10:30 p.m. on a recent Friday. The Asian grocery, the chicken phở spot next door, the boba shop, the beauty parlor — all already closed for hours. Just a single storefront was

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