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| - If you loved the food at Orient House before the ownership change, this is the place for you. The cook and his wife were the back of the house at the old Orient House. Tried them for the first time tonite and were recognized immediately by the wife who tends the front of the house.
Here's what we just had: Chicken with Sweet Corn Soup is great with lots of chicken in the rich broth. The Hot and Sour soup needed a little salt but had lots of veggies, tofu and cloud ear mushroom. If you ask for a big bowl of it, it is BIG!
The steamed dumplings were some of the largest I ever saw, filled with a golf ball size helping of ground pork well cooked and seasoned; the wrapper was not thick and doughy like many dumplings and pot stickers. And there were six dumplings instead of an odd amount, making sharing as a couple nicer.
WARNING--the portions are HUGE for the entrees. The Moo Shu chicken had lots of chicken and crisp veggies, not too wet to keep the wrappers together. The wrappers did not seem to be house made and were thicker but were definitely not the tortilla wrappers Orient House uses now. It comes with four wrappers but there is enough Moo Shu for at least double that number. They also bring you a nice amount of white rice to help you finish the remaining Moo Shu.
I had the Orange Pork which came with an overly generous amount of stir fried pork in the sweet brown orange sauce with slices of orange peel in case you are into that (my peel wasn't bitter, either). It also included broccoli florets which were crisp and bright green.
We also ordered the Sautéed Green String Beans from the vegetable section of the menu. The beans were large and crispy with that same light sauce as Orient House but without the ground pork. A definite keeper.
One of the things we used to enjoy about Orient House were the traditional Chinese dishes that reminded me of the wonderful food on my trips there. I was devastated when I could no longer get my Scrambled Egg and Tomato. So taking my old OH menu with me, I asked if the cook could make some for me and I was thrilled to again have a source for one of my favorite dishes.
It is just the cook and his wife running the restaurant so it may take a little longer for service but the food is definitely worth the wait. I was told if we wanted to have any of the old traditional dishes prepared, just let them know ahead of time and they will be sure to have the ingredients, so that's exactly what we intend to do.
While the traditional dishes are not on the menu, from our experience ordering off the regular menu tonite, the food is high quality and well worth the trip to the east side. The restaurant has been brightened up and is more inviting now, although the street front could use better branding so you know what you're looking at.
All in all, this will be a regular stop for us now and can't wait to tell our friends that we can once again dine on excellent Chinese fare at Magic Wok. Give it a try.
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