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| - Not all that long ago this restaurant used to be called Hot Feel, but it shuttered its doors after not even a year in business serving delicious lamb skewers and spicy boiled crawfish. So when I heard my friend said that there is a new restaurant there with a logo of a lady as part of the signage, my first thought was that it could be China Mama's second location. But obviously that's not the correct guess.
Liang's Kitchen ???? (literal translation is Liang Mama's House), with the logo of the founder/matriarch of the restaurant incorporated into the signage (now in her 80s), is a Taiwanese comfort food restaurant chain from California and New York. With locations in many of the Cali cities that I have previously lived or worked at before my move to Sin City. So it was a surprise and reality check to see some of the cities listed (Cupertino, Fremont, Milpitas). But I have been out here a relatively long time and those locations could have opened after I had already settled here.
The interior of this Liang's Kitchen still retained the majority of the interior design concepts custom built for the previous restaurant entity. albeit with small but noticeable additions. The inclusion and prominent display of vintage Flying Tigers* aviator jackets (very very cool and most people will likely not know anything about its history) high up on the wall with lighting to draw the attention of anyone bothering to quickly survey the restaurant. Plus there are WWII and Vietnam War era model fighter planes delicately hung from the ceiling in sortie formation (neato!).
* 1st American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force in 1941-1942, nicknamed the Flying Tigers, was composed of pilots from the United States Army Air Corps, Navy, and Marine Corps. (Copy & Paste excerpt from Wiki)
The menu is extensive and following recent Chinese restaurant menu design practices, especially from abroad, looks like a sales catalog with professionally shoot images of some of the menu items, with alternating pages of straight up advertising. It looks good, but it also has one very annoying attribute or lack thereof, which is the absence of any menu prices. [Insert comment about if you have to ask about the price, you can't afford it. -Smirk face-] I know from the restauranteur's perspective it makes sense and saves money in the long run, since they don't have to reprint the menu or have those tacky stickers every time there is a revision to menu pricing. There is a separate menu sheet that does have the menu items and pricing, but no pictures. So if you have the patience for it, you can practice cross referencing the main menu with the supplemental menu and other printouts. Happy. Happy. Joy. Joy!
Food wise, I really liked the Beef and Tendon Soup Noodle that I ordered. It is definitely ranked in the top two on my list for this item in Las Vegas. The noodles are the thick chewy handmade variety from Northern China. The beef tendon was cooked long enough so that it is soft and very enjoyable to eat. The broth is flavorful without being greasy. The Lamb skewers was good, but I thought it was a bit pricey. Their lunch box items has a good variety of pickled vegetables and 1 entire soy sauced egg along with rice and whatever protein you selected (I ordered the Taiwanese fried port cutlet for my friend, she ate everything and liked it except for the pork - too greasy).
Service was good. However, being a new restaurant with new staff, they are still not completely familiar with the pages and pages of menu items. But as far as refilling drinks, being friendly, it was good.
I will definitely be back to explore more of their menu. However, considering the dreary weather, I may not get past their noodles section until late February.
4 stars! And best of luck to the latest Taiwanese restaurant to open in Las Vegas.
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