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| - I was incredibly excited to have discovered this place on Yelp because my grandma from Beijing has always cooked some delicious northern chinese food for me. So since I haven't gotten any of those classic flavours in soooo long, I was incredibly excited to try this restaurant. Luckily this place did not disappoint, and I definitely will be returning. In terms of the positives, I would pretty much agree with everyone about their dumpling quality, and the vegetarian one (with the egg) is truly the bomb. The dumpling skin is so thin(without breaking) that you can easily see the good stuff on the inside, and all my dumplings arrived at the perfect temperature (not cold but not scathing hot)!! In addition, my grandmother was also acclaimed for her hot and sour soup, and according to my parents, the restaurant did a wonderful job with the soup, on par with grandma! (The fact that the big ass bowl of soup is only 4.99 doesn't hurt either.)
Aside from the dumplings, I was also excited for the potstickers, another grandma classic. Now I must say that having not had potstickers in foreverrrr I was incredibly excited to order this. However I was left slightly disappointed because the outer skin was not pan fried to the perfect point of crispiness. However I won't fault them too much for this, since other tables' potstickers seem to look fine, so my table might've just been unlucky.
As for the green onion pancake, it was actually kind of disappointing and I am surprised by all the hype about it. From what I noticed in my plate (and everyone's around me) there was a lack of green onion, which kind of defeats the purpose of a green onion pancake in my opinion. Going with the negatives, we also ordered a plate of fried noodles, which had a great noodle texture but was VERY greasy, and for some reason the veggies in it were kind of bitter. But I didn't really hold the noodles against them since I realize it's not their specialty.
Finally I was excited to try their dessert with the sweet potato dipped in honey, then put into cold water so the honey will form a candy coating around the sweet potato. I don't think I will be ordering this again, since they neglected to provide us with ice water, which meant the honey wasn't cold enough to become a coating and instead washed off in the water. The dessert was a great disappointment, and being the most expensive item (6.99) we ordered, it was a bad note to end the meal with.
Overall, I believe that this was a great experience if you know what to order. I feel like the items that you can find in any Northern Chinese home is done very well in this restaurant, where as the other items (more restauranty as opposed to homey) are a bit lack luster in my opinion. I'm glad I've discovered this place, and can satisfy my northern chinese cravings happily now!
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