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| - I had two good reasons to be very wary of this place.
1. Having lived in Charles Village in Baltimore, one of the most notoriously terrible places to seek chinese food was at a place named "Orient Express"
2. I was craving BBQ Pork, and based on the different non-socal places that I've tried, most of these bbq porks would serve a better purpose being adhered to the sole of a shoe to improve its sping factor.
Having bad connotations with this restaurant name, however, I tried it per the recommendation of a new friend of mine who had been living in the area for a few years already. We went at 9 o'clock one thursday night after class, and the restaurant was serving 4 other tables. My friends ordered MaPo Tofu, extra spicy, and I ordered a BBQ Pork Noodle Soup.
I am quite delighted to say that despite their suspiciously brief time to crank out dishes faster than water could boil on an induction stove (a striking similarity to the old orient express i had been to as well), the bbq pork was one of the most tender pieces i have ever had outside of the freshly made bbq pork at Sam Woo Restaurant back in San Gabriel, CA! It was most definitely a pleasant surprise. The rest of the dish consisted of thicker ramen-type noodles and a few leaves of bok choy. My friends' mapo tofu didn't quite look like mapo tofu to me, but they enjoyed it anyhow.
I hope to come back sometime for lunch, when the deals are even better! They split our 3 entree check among 3 cards without complaint.
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