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| - This place was packed on Saturday night but with some reservations managed to accommodate a large group of us. They have a pretty vast and authentic menu and we ordered a bunch of different things that were all solid and had a delightful homemade quality to it. Portions are plentiful too.
My personal favorites were the braised brisket with daikon, the wet beef flat noodles, and peking duck. The peking duck is crisp skinned, not too fatty with tender meat, artfully cut and comes with pancakes and some cucumber. It also comes with a duck bone soup that is very flavorful and refreshing, and that's saying something as I normally don't like soup.The wet noodles come with plenty of gravy, some carrots, little beef and some bok choy but lets face it - when you order this, you just care about the noodles and there's no shortage of that here. And the brisket with daikon is tender and just barely holding together with chunks of daikon that are fork tender.
They do fried rice fine, albeit unspectacular. Dry fried green beans with ground pork is a large plate of the string beans with some soy sauce spiced ground meat that's quite enjoyable as a palate cleanser. Sweet and sour pork is fried crisp with just enough not gloopy sauce.
A little bit too authentic for me is the fried shrimp with salted egg. The salted egg is a bit too overpowering so I would recommend it only if you really like salted eggs or want to slap some chili oil on it to balance it out.
It's easy to see why this place is so packed so try to get a reservation if you plan on coming.
Update - our family ended up eating here for two more days too, so got to try a few more noteworthy dishes. The shrimp egg scramble is good, a mountain of scrambled eggs with plump shrimp that's nice and light. Their white cut chicken is very well done - clean meat with a vibrant ginger onion sauce. The bbq pork and jellyfish (strange combo I know...) is pretty good too - the fatty extra crunchy pork is a fantastic exercise in culinary delights from taste and textural contrast. They also have this deep fried tofu custard dish that I've never seen anywhere with a sauce and broccoli that is now unofficially my favorite vegetarian dish.
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