Philadelphia, PA
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This chain restaurant is pretty tasty. Some of the menu items may be missing depending on where you go. The quality across stores, however, seems to be consistent. I have been to the Boston and the Philadelphia branches and have been impressed by both. I think I have had a slightly better experience with the service and tastiness of the meals in Boston though.
In Philadelphia my dining companion and I treated ourselves and ordered the Hainanese chicken with rice. The rice is nicely seasoned with oil (or butter?) and the sauce that accompanies the chicken is a very mild soy sauce of some sort. The texture is terrific but I wish there had been a choice of dark or white meat on the chicken. The problem with white meat, again, is that it is often cooked too dry. The secret is in the sour, spicy orange sauce that you dip the chicken in or mix with the rice. Overall, the dish is a good one.
Delicious!
The chicken with rice should have been the entire meal but we also had the mango fish. We were both expecting to get the whole fish on a platter but they served us with deep fried chunks instead. Now, they gave us a choice of catfish, red snapper, or striped bass but what does that matter if they were going to deep fry it beyond recognition anyway? The mango itself wasn’t ripe enough and it was a bit hard to get through. The whole dish was covered in this really sweet and somewhat tangy sauce, which, I’m sorry to say, did not aid the flavor. The basket (fried wanton?) it came in was nice but it didn’t really offer any taste of its own.
My dining companion and I also had the Chinese broccoli stir-fried with garlic. The dish was OK but it lacked punch and wasn’t as filled with garlic as we would have preferred. My companion, who had been here before, introduced me to the coconut rice (rice cooked in coconut milk?) and that was a nice, sweet treat.
Maybe I’ll give their noodles a chance next time.
(Images by AG)
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