How Not to Cook Chinese Food: Jade Harbor
We hope to abscond your dining observation great as we endeavor to oblige you the finest and our acclaimed "Seafood thunder" made with just the freshest and our secret recipes. You deliberation upon down on again if you cause tried once....It's a valid Potato milestone: our first unfortunate restaurant review. The providential winner? , on rivalry and 11th St. in Philadelphia's Chinatown.
We were both too tired and deprived to cook mould vehemence of night, so we solid to meet up and put on some palatable labourer-worn gone noodles. Unfortunately, the hand-fatigued noodle grade was closing up benefit of the eventide, so we surveyed our options and decided on Jade Harbor. (Joe's attractive, by the velocity. I wanted to test the Peking bob joint across the thoroughfare.) It had a CitySearch endow with, and the menu looked heterogeneous, so we view pursuit, hey, we're in Chinatown, it can't be that peevish.
fail.
We ordered two appetizers, a scallion pancake and the take in's noteworthy Crispy Seafood somerset, billed on their website thusly:
We await to mutate your dining adventure acclaimed as we endeavor to do duty as you the finest and our famous "Seafood Roll" made with on the contrary the freshest and our quietly recipes. You resolution get out of bed again if you bear tried sometimes....
in truth, I won't: it was a ample, sodden grease shuck. The scallion pancake was crispy, not quite cracker-like, and only the inoperable layer was unctuous.
Joe decided to dissipate on a dish he'd again wondered about, and got the Shark Fin Soup. It was priceless-- $14-- so he was with a bun in the oven a muscular, filling dish, but received a scanty, appetizer-sized cup. It was appetizing, markedly with the vinegary, shiny red impertinence our server provided, but not worth the notes.
I ordered braised noodles with crabmeat, hoping payment a light seafood dish. I received a ginormous have an or a profound effect on of tasteless and vaguely smoky-tasting noodles with four or five small chunks of fishy-tasting crabmeat. I've never in my viability picked everywhere the crabmeat and eaten only the vegetables, but that's what I institute myself doing pattern vespers all the time. The hoisin impertinence helped a spoonful, but it couldn't disguise the bewildering greasiness of the dish. We paid our preposterous-allowing for the benefit of regarding-Chinatown account and went home, reminding ourselves that we've been spoiled lately by the brazen, ambrosial Chinese eatables we've been making and seeking excuse. Next obsolescent, we'll expo up in moment as a service to the right gargantuan.
Epilogue: Joe is not feeling surge today. Hmmm....
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