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My wife and daughter and I went to a new Chinese restaurant the other night. My brother, who has good taste in restaurants, recommended it to us.
We were seated and a waitress came right over to take our drink and appetizer order. She had a very heavy accent and was quite difficult to understand. We ordered the Peking Ravioli and on the menu it said it came with 6 pieces. When we placed the order I swear she said "Five?". So I pointed to the menu where it said (6) and repeated my order. After this went on a few times I finally figured out she was saying "fried?".
The app came and was delicious. Possibly the best Peking Ravs I have ever had. We then placed our order for our main dishes. The reason I titled this thread the way I did is that there were ingredients on the menu that I had never seen in a Chinese restaurant. There were a few dishes that had bacon in them. I am used to pork being used, but have never seen bacon in any Chinese dish. We decided to try the Szechuan Double Cooked Bacon.
I asked the waitress about it first, but again we had a lot of trouble understanding what she was saying. It sounded like it was bacon cooked in bacon fat and possibly some peppers and onions. The Homer Simpson in me won out over the more sensible little voice in the back of my head (MMMM bacon fried bacon). The dish came and sure enough it was a plate full of bacon. I have to say it seemed very out of place, but tasted good. I would not order it again, but I am glad we tried it. My wife felt weird about just eating piece after piece of bacon so she did not
The other interesting dish we got was the Cumin Rubbed Dry Beef In Chili Sauce. Again, I had never heard of cumin being used in Chinese food, but it sounded very interesting. We ordered that and the waitress asked if we like cumin. We said we did. She asked again "do you really like cumin?". Again we said yes. She then asked a third time so I told her I use it all the time in my cooking and assured her that we both enjoy it very much. I figured it must be pretty heavy on the cumin if she was asking so much so I asked her if the dish went heavy on cumin. She said "no very light". OK that seemed strange to me that she asked so many times if we really liked it if they went really light on it. This dish came and was excellent. They most certainly did not go light on the cumin though. It was very heavily spiced. I can see why she asked. I bet a lot of people take one taste and spit it out if they are not used to that flavor. This was by far my favorite dish of the night. I am not sure where the chili sauce came into it as there was no sauce noticeable, but it was very dry (as the name implies). the edges were almost jerky like, but the inside of the meat was tender and delicious.
Out third dish was Chicken with Asparagus. Nothing out of the normal with this dish, but it was very good. The chicken was cooked perfectly as was the asparagus.
As we walked out my wife made an observation. She noticed that we were almost the only Caucasians in the place. Yep we will go back again
We were seated and a waitress came right over to take our drink and appetizer order. She had a very heavy accent and was quite difficult to understand. We ordered the Peking Ravioli and on the menu it said it came with 6 pieces. When we placed the order I swear she said "Five?". So I pointed to the menu where it said (6) and repeated my order. After this went on a few times I finally figured out she was saying "fried?".
The app came and was delicious. Possibly the best Peking Ravs I have ever had. We then placed our order for our main dishes. The reason I titled this thread the way I did is that there were ingredients on the menu that I had never seen in a Chinese restaurant. There were a few dishes that had bacon in them. I am used to pork being used, but have never seen bacon in any Chinese dish. We decided to try the Szechuan Double Cooked Bacon.
I asked the waitress about it first, but again we had a lot of trouble understanding what she was saying. It sounded like it was bacon cooked in bacon fat and possibly some peppers and onions. The Homer Simpson in me won out over the more sensible little voice in the back of my head (MMMM bacon fried bacon). The dish came and sure enough it was a plate full of bacon. I have to say it seemed very out of place, but tasted good. I would not order it again, but I am glad we tried it. My wife felt weird about just eating piece after piece of bacon so she did not
The other interesting dish we got was the Cumin Rubbed Dry Beef In Chili Sauce. Again, I had never heard of cumin being used in Chinese food, but it sounded very interesting. We ordered that and the waitress asked if we like cumin. We said we did. She asked again "do you really like cumin?". Again we said yes. She then asked a third time so I told her I use it all the time in my cooking and assured her that we both enjoy it very much. I figured it must be pretty heavy on the cumin if she was asking so much so I asked her if the dish went heavy on cumin. She said "no very light". OK that seemed strange to me that she asked so many times if we really liked it if they went really light on it. This dish came and was excellent. They most certainly did not go light on the cumin though. It was very heavily spiced. I can see why she asked. I bet a lot of people take one taste and spit it out if they are not used to that flavor. This was by far my favorite dish of the night. I am not sure where the chili sauce came into it as there was no sauce noticeable, but it was very dry (as the name implies). the edges were almost jerky like, but the inside of the meat was tender and delicious.
Out third dish was Chicken with Asparagus. Nothing out of the normal with this dish, but it was very good. The chicken was cooked perfectly as was the asparagus.
As we walked out my wife made an observation. She noticed that we were almost the only Caucasians in the place. Yep we will go back again
