With egg fried rice, hot and sour soup, and barbecue pork. $8.75
Judy Fu’s Snappy Dragon, Seattle WA
Wow, this place has a really great lunch combo deal! I guess they tend to over-sauce their crispy chicken so my brother suggested getting the sauce on the side. The food was pretty good. I liked the barbecue pork and the chicken wasn’t too greasy.
Sesame chicken sauce requested on the side.
Suzzallo Library, University of Washington.
Hoisin, cucumber, scallion. $10
Momofuku Ssam Bar, New York NY
The super fatty pork belly pieces had a great flavor, but there was just too much grease everywhere! The buns were literally soaked in grease from the pool underneath. Even the cucumbers couldn’t cut the flavor of the grease. I loved the hot sauce that came in the tiny squirt bottle (although it wasn’t very hot).
Stateside saison beer. $9
Empire Fulton Ferry State Park, Brooklyn Bridge.
Boneless chicken sautéed with secret sauce, served with steamed broccoli. $7.95
Dandy’s Carry Out, Washington DC
Ugh, staying out late has its downsides, but I don’t think getting greasy Chinese food afterward is one of them, lol! I love my fake Chinese food and I was even able to switch the rice out for steamed broccoli, hehe.
Thomas Jefferson Memorial.
Spicy vegetable dumpling, beef dumpling, seafood dumpling, chive and shrimp dumpling, honey barbecued pork bun (char siu bun). Lunch prix fixe $25
Ping Pong, Washington DC
I appreciated the different colors and shapes of these dumplings and the fillings were pretty tasty too. What I didn’t appreciate was that they were over steamed so the wrappers were soft, mushy and gelatinous. The pork bun was good.
Ping Pong steamer trays.
Four-Sided Pyramid, National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden.
Honey roasted chicken puff, chicken and black pepper spring roll, crispy prawn ball, panko crusted edamame and crab cake, sweet and sour sauce. Lunch prix fixe $25
Ping Pong, Washington DC
Meh, I thought that the prix fixe price was great, but I wasn’t that impressed with the dim sum items and especially not by their lame sauces. The chicken puff tasted great but I thought the pastry was a too thick for the filling ratio. The spring roll was your usual spring roll. The prawn ball was over-fried as was the edamame crab cake.
Fried wontons with sweet and sour sauce. Complimentary
Chinatown gate.
General Tso’s chicken, broccoli beef, fried rice and soda. $9.55
City Lights of China Express, Washington DC
This was from the food court in the Ronald Reagan Building, and I wasn’t impressed. It was your typical Chinese food court food I guess, not much better than Panda Express. The General Tso’s chicken was really saucy though which I liked. I can’t deny myself the sugary Chinese sauces. 🙂
Chinatown gate.
2 pieces $5.95
Kingdom of Dumpling, San Francisco CA
We weren’t sure what we were gonna get when we ordered this. I kind of imagine that it would the kind of pancake that you get with moo shu pork or something. Instead, these were really thin dry, almost cracker-like, pancakes filled with strip of beef. They were actually really good!
Pink flowers, Noe Valley.
12 pieces $6.45
Kingdom of Dumpling, San Francisco CA
I think we got an extra dumpling, score! These dumplings were delicious especially dipped in a mixture of soy and chili sauce. And for less than seven bucks, come one! #winning
Tea. Complimentary
Jessie Square.
With wide rice noodles, bok choy, mushrooms. $5.95
Kingdom of Dumpling, San Francisco CA
Mmm, this soup was delicious and they give plenty of it for less than six bucks! I like the large pieces of bok choy although they were difficult to cut and eat with chopsticks (I’m definitely not a professional). The broth and the filled wontons were very tasty.
Random Chinese church, Mission.
Xiao long bao. $4.95
Kingdom of Dumpling, San Francisco CA
These were very good and super cheap! I loved that they used a napa cabbage leaf on the bottom instead of nothing, paper, or worse those gross foil tins! The dumpling wrappers were a good thickness (not too thick) and the soup broth and pork filling were tasty. Noms!
7×7 Magazine’s The Big Eat San Francisco: 100 Things to Eat + Drink Before You Die – 2012, 2014
Sweet soy sauce with ginger.
Dolores Park.
$8.90
Yank Sing, San Francisco CA
Mmm, these ribs were great. I liked the simple and elegant presentation. The sauce was very tasty and slightly sticky so it stayed on the ribs fairly well.
With oyster sauce. $6.50
Yank Sing, San Francisco CA
This was pretty good. I liked the presentation and that everything was was cut to size. Yum.
Hot tea. $1.95
I think it’s lame that they charge you for tea, but don’t tell you that. Lame!
Vittle Monster 