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| - So this isn't the first time i've been here, and i remember not being that impressed being here a few years ago. According to my friends review, it was in late 2015. Came here again recently with family by recommendation by my mother's coworker. One thing to notice, is the name of the restaurant is NOT what they serve anymore, and it's almost borderline "false advertisement". The chinese name of this restaurant is also ridiculously similar to Joe's Shanghai in NYC. It is NOT the same ! !
So back to the review. Considering the location of this place, on the NW corner of Rainbow and Sahara, facing south, adjacent to the Harley Davidson, it is not what you would expect a chinese restaurant to be at. Upon my late arrival after getting off work, there was no other customers besides my own family at the restaurant. They were in the midst of ordering food so i just sat down. One thing they had called to "reserve" beforehand is the tea smoked duck. Apparently theres limited quantity per day or something to that nature.
Rice is served/charged per bowl/bucket. $1 per bowl, or $4 or $5 options for a bucket of rice. I dont know what the difference between the $4 or $5 option is but we had gotten the $5 option, and gets about 6 bowls of rice.
So about the food, for those i can actually find a name to match XD
Tea smoked duck (???) - This was actually pretty good. Very nice tea smokey flavor in the skin and meat. The skin was pretty crispy. We only got 1/2 a duck as that was all that was left for the night but it was enough (or rather more than enough for 6 people). The duck is served with mini steamed buns that you can eat the duck similar to like peking duck, except not only skin. The flavor was pretty decent overall and i think is one of their better items that we had.
Chives pocket (????) - This is a "pocket" style dish with a housemade dough pocket stuffed with chopped chives, glass noodles, eggs. The flavor of the stuff was fairly mild, could use some additional flavoring, but it was pretty decent. The pocket itself was well made and had a good chewiness to it. Add a little splash of vinegar and it was yum yum ! Each order comes with 2 pockets cut in half, so 4 pieces.
Beef roll (????) - Green onion pancake wrapped beef with some spears of cucumber and hoisin sauce. As with the chives pocket, the green onion pancake also seems housemade as the outside seems quite good, and pan fried to a crisp but not entirely. The outside was flaking off but inside was still nice and chewy. The cucumber adds some freshness to the "heaviness" of the beef/hoisin sauce which makes this dish a nice appetizer to share. Each order cuts with 2 rolls, cut in half, so 4 pieces.
"Water Cooked Beef" (????) - This dish seems quite differently made compared to other ones i've had at other restaurants such as Chengdu taste, Yunnan Garden, etc. The "spice" factor seems quite mild in terms of flavor, numbing factor, and heat level, but the beef they used was very tender and "soft". We had actually taken the leftovers and added more ingredients to it a day after, and was spicier XD !
Twice cooked pork (???) - Fairly standard thin slices of pork cooked with large pieces of leek, onions, and bell pepper. Nothing too special in terms of preparation or flavor. Typical twice cooked pork, or at least what i can remember LOL
ok, now the uh im not sure what this is actually called.... LOL
Cold appetizer - we had a cold appetizer that consisted of beef stomach and some sort of beef slice. I think this is called ???? which is made of thinly sliced beef, and beef offal (according to Wiki). Lol. The offal was a bit soft but overall, the flavor was nice. Its served cold so its not so spicy. Has a nice mild numbing factor.
Vegetarian thing.... - overhearing convo, it was supposed to be a vegetarian duck but it was more like rolled soybean curd with a light dizzle of sesame oil, and maybe some other flavor. Very simple and light. Also served cold
Spicy noodle seafood soup thing... - This is something i definitely dont know the name of. The noodles are housemade or resembled handmade noodles. Inconsistent thickness. Nice and chewy. If i recall correctly, the name had something about stir-frying but for some odd reason, it was in a soup form. We didn't question it. The soup base was mildly spicy and red. Various seafood inside like mussel on a half shell, imitation crab, and some other stuff. Not bad of a dish to share or eat alone. This was probably the "most spicy" item. That being said, it wasn't that spicy.
Overall, this place is ok. Mildly out of the way compared to other similar restaurants. The duck is probably the only thing i'd return for, if anything.
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