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| - Fang Chi was a nice surprise for me. I stopped by here for dinner on my first night in town, directly after dropping my stuff off at the loft and checking Yelp for a good restaurant. After looking at the menu, I decided to eat at the restaurant rather than take it back to the loft, so I sat down and was treated to a complimentary pot of hot green tea. The General Tao chicken (so ordered based on the previous reviews) was a huge platter of breaded and fried chicken soaking in a delicious dark sauce. I didn't expect it to be breaded, since when I usually get it elsewhere it isn't, but the flavor was definitely there (although the spice was conspicuously absent; perhaps the little chili should be removed from beside the item description on the menu) and I managed to suppress the guilt of eating a huge platter of fried stuff. The white rice was a perfect consistency for chopsticks, although there were no chopsticks at the table.
The second visit was a take-out order of Szechuan Beef with white rice and a side order of the Hunan Dumplings (again, credit goes to previous reviews for this selection). The beef was, as with the chicken previously, flavorful and delicious -- but again, lacking the heat implied by that little chili next to the description.
The Hunan Dumplings... well, I think I actually saw stars when I bit into the first one. Admittedly, I'm a sucker for a good peanut sauce. Put me in any decent Thai or Vietnamese restaurant with summer rolls on the menu, and after I've finished devouring them a trained eye might see an expression come across my face as I consider whether or not it would be considered bad manners to just grab the little bowl of peanut sauce and lick it clean.
Those dumplings are what dreams are made of. Delicious, flavorful, sticky, peanut-flavored dreams.
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