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| - I never run back to work after lunch to Yelp about my great lunch experience. At least, I never have until now. I wasn't supposed to eat out today. I just wanted to get out of the office for a bit and finished reading Memoria de mis putas tristes. Somehow, I ended up in front of this place and the rest, as they say, is history... well, not really history, but you know...
Many, many moons ago this pace was called Dynasty Buffet and it was a Chinese buffet. For what it was, if I remember correctly, it was pretty decent. It was kinds upscaley for a Chinese buffet.
When I pulled in the front of the restaurant did not look particularly inviting. It's a big box building with big red letters and kanjis very similar to the way you see in Asian markets. Just kinda loud and... well, a bit tacky.
I said, "F it" and went in since it wasn't a buffet and I would get to read some while I waited for my food. The place is very spacious and minimally decorated. What little is there fits nicely with the atmosphere. The host and the waitresses were very pleasant and helpful.
You are given a menu, a pencil and a sheet of paper with a laundry list of dumpling options. I ended up settling for the Kung Pao Chicken lunch special (with your choice of egg drop. wonton or spicy egg drop soup) and sticky rice. To boot, I added a side order of chicken feet (HELL YEAH!) and some shark fin dumplings. The older Chinese waitress had to double check I knew I was ordering chicken feet before she wrote it down! haha.
After I placed my order I grabbed by book and continued reading. Before I finished the page here comes a piping hot bowl of delicious egg drop soup. The soup was very good, better than average, and it came with a little pile of those flaky crackers and some chili paste. My Kung Pao chicken was delicious and very, very spicy! Unlike your average Chinese food strip mall hellhole, Dynasty understands its food and separates the rice from your main dish.
Shortly after came my chicken feet in a nice dark sauce topped with slices of jalapeños. They were delicious but very hard to eat and messy! They were perfectly cook and the bones were tender enough to chew threw if you chose to, like Becky, I chose to juts suck the marrow and the skin off.
The shark fin dumplings, which I've never had before, were delicious. Hot and had a very nice crab meets lobster and fish taste to them (can't really describe it) and were very nicely sized. Needless to say, I didn't finish it all.
Interestingly, both the host and the waitress were genuinely interested in hearing my opinion of the chicken feet and the dumplings. They came around and chatted with me about the food and my thoughts which was awesome.
In front of me sat an older Chinese couple. At one point the woman got up and walked by my table, I noticed she did a double-take on my table but kept on going. On her way back she stopped by the table and told me that I knew how to eat Chinese food like Chinese people do! hahahaha. We had a nice chat about how they really like this place because it's one of the few places where they can get real Chinese food they way they eat it back home.
I will definitely come back and recommend this place to anyone who is an adventurous eater or likes really good Chinese food.
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