For cold appetizers, a popular choice is the spicy and sour fern starch noodles. It looks like squid-ink noodles and is topped with chiles, sesame seeds and their signature sour sauce. For hot appetizers, you can’t go wrong with the fried Chinese doughnuts, fried milk custard or fried chicken wings. The fried Chinese doughnuts are […]
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Originally a local Houston phenomenon, Bamboo House opened the doors to its first North Texas location. Hungry families have since piled in the Plano joint to get a taste of what the chain claims to be the ‘best Peking duck in town.’ The platter’s arrival is almost a royal event; it’s trolleyed in on a […]
Targeted at Asian-American millennials, Big Claw’s menu encompasses Chinese street foods, noodles and stir fries. The fare spans numerous regional cuisines, but it’s all delicious. Using a pencil, mark your order directly onto the paper menu, and be sure to choose at least one rice noodle dish – the noodles are perfectly tender and served […]
If you’re looking to feed a crowd of people something other than the usual Tex-Mex or Italian, consider Caravelle. Its modest strip mall location conceals a massive high-ceilinged dining room decked out in entirely too much pastel pink, accented with giant chandeliers and gold dragons. The extensive Chinese-Vietnamese menu offers a little something for everyone, […]
It is perhaps redundant to point out that Chef Hsu has an all-you-can-eat “super buffet” at lunch packed with fresh, fried, braised, saut
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Fat Ni is fun. Everything about it is fun. Well, it’s in a strip mall, but aside from the location, it’s a good time. To order you’ll get a sheet of paper on which to check off boxes, almost like ordering Girl Scout cookies. It allows newbies to get familiar with the options. Then, in the […]
Things you won’t find here: egg rolls, sweet-and-sour pork, chicken chow mein. You will find some of the finest and most authentic Cantonese-Vietnamese food available, with a heavy use of seafood (including shrimp) and organ meats. Don’t knock it until you’ve tried. The seafood hot-pot is not to be missed.
The best xiao long bao (soup dumplings) in the area are the stars at Fortune House, a Shanghainese mainstay on the north side of Irving. But don’t miss the fried buns, either; they’re steamed and fried, the crispy bottom and moist top producing two different colors and textures. Aside from buns, dumplings and the occasional […]
This is the second location for Fortune House – the original is in Irving. The menu is the same; go for any of the dumplings and you’ll leave happy. Aside from those little pillows of happiness, they serve fun cocktails (tiki and martini espresso) along with the Chinese standard hits like fried rice, orange chicken […]
Chinese hot pot is similar in many respects to fondue: it’s an interactive dining experience where the center of table contains a simmering pot of soup into which various raw ingredients such as veggies, meat, seafood, tofu, etc., are placed for quick cooking. The ingredients are sliced thinly to facilitate the fast-cooking process, and the […]
Hei-Hei offers a family-friendly and laid-back atmosphere with a full bar of premium booze and specialty cocktails. They are an American-Chinese restaurant and they make no bones about it. So, what is American-Chinese? Simple: it is Chinese food with an American flair. Expect a creative twist on most dishes, and that is by design. This […]
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What an expressive name is Hello Dumpling. It’s short, sweet and friendly, and it holds out the promise of delicious dumplings. There’s only one problem with the name: This restaurant’s noodles are even better. Hello Dumpling is serving a wide variety of northern Chinese home cooking and market foods: grilled skewers of meat, beef noodle […]
We have an aversion to artificially tenderized meat, MSG and slimy sauces. We have exclaimed to many people that it’s extremely difficult to find reliably good Chinese food in Dallas. Then, on the recommendation of a friend, we found Howard Wang’s, at Northwest Highway and Midway streets. The first thing you notice is the sleek […]
A hot spot in Plano’s growing Chinese food scene, Hunan Bistro packs in customers looking for rustic specialties from its namesake province. Garlic cloves remain whole in stir fries, chopped-up chile peppers pile high, and some form of braised pork is on nearly every table. Whole croaker fish get fried without batter until their skins, […]
Customers who have traveled to the Big Apple’s Chinatown swear this East Dallas joint, in an old drive-in, is the closest thing to New York Chinese food in Big D (especially if driving up 75 to Richardson is out of the question). Aside from the standard Americanized Chinese choices, there are more traditional options tacked […]
Whatever the explanation, this Richardson institution isn’t living up to its outsize reputation. Superior dumplings – at places such as Imperial Cuisine or Jeng Chi – aren’t too far away. Even First Emperor, right across the street, has its merits.
There’s something about devouring a whole fish – truly devouring it, leaving nothing but bones – that feels victorious, like climbing a mountain peak or getting through downtown on Interstate 35 without hitting traffic. That’s especially the case at Plano’s Little Sichuan, where the whole tilapia comes buried in an avalanche of potatoes, cauliflower, lotus […]
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Since the first Lover’s Egg Roll opened in 1989, two locations have been added to this fast-food Chinese-American take-out/delivery concern. Overall, it offers everything a lover of the particular cuisine could want, including sesame chicken, broccoli with garlic sauce as well as the expected Hunan and Szechuan standards and typical greasiness. Affordable price points, too! […]
Got a couple of hours to kill on a Sunday morning? (Or any other day of the week, for that matter?) Try this Chinatown wonderland off Greenville Avenue and Main Street in Richardson, where the waitstaff strolls through this gargantuan restaurant with wagons full of goodies familiar (shrimp-and-scallion dumplings, fried rice, saut
Named after the festival that commemorates a second century BC martyred Chinese poet, this Addison restaurant specializes in elegant culinary preparations of the best of regional Chinese cooking. This isn’t a greasy take-out joint whose only real specialty is MSG. It’s pricey. It’s also beloved by every major Dallas periodical and numerous celebrities as varied […]