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| - If you can really bring yourself to eat at a place called NUMBER TWO Restaurant (dear Lord help us), then you might be pleasantly surprised with this place. Solid 3.5 star but I'm rounding it up because I feel generous today.
I have been eyeing Number Two (somewhat hysterically, because of the name) for weeks and it opened sometime over the past few days.
Number Two is definitely a Chinese restaurant geared towards whiteys. Or at least it's trying hard (and succeeding) to be "whitey friendly". (Who can blame them, really? We order ridiculous quantities of food, rave about how delicious it is even when it's not, plus generally tip generously! Bring on the whiteys!)
However, when I was there today I was the only whitey amongst a half-full restaurant of asians.
They had all day dim sum which was highly tempting, but Jennifer K lectured me via bbm to order a Chinese dish, so I picked out my favourite - Moo Shu Pork. The menu is giant and has all your usual Chinese food dishes as well as a separate dim sum menu.
I was really impressed with my Moo Shu! It was giant (for $9) and it was the healthiest restaurant Moo Shu I have tasted. Every time I get this dish elsewhere it is greasy as f*ck! (Canton Chilli, Lee Garden and Swatow are all entirely guilty of making it with far too much oil). Not here, it was nice and light.
The service here was really friendly and genuine. English spoken to varying degrees but the manager was very fluent. He came over to introduce himself.
The place is clean and they have clearly done some reno work to make it look slightly more modern than most of the other Chinatown haunts. Real linen (not plastic!) tablecloths, new chairs and tables, blue and white mosaic tiling at the bar/service area.
Open until 5am on weekends and 4am weekdays!
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