9888 Bellaire Blvd. #126, 77036
Okay, so I ate with the Grams today… This restaurant is at the corner of the mall and could be quite hard to spot. It serves Northeastern Chinese food… I enjoy several of their dishes quite much. Anyhow, my her eyes had more of an appetite than her stomach.
We ordered three dishes, I guess for appetizer (more like a meal in itself) she asked for 2! orders of fried small pork buns. They were quite tasty, but I only ate one because I knew there were other dishes to come. The presentation was pretty nice, I like the flair of the seasame seeds.
Then we had a dish I would usually get in beef, but since I know this restaurant does it well, I ordered it in fish. Basically its sichuan spicy boiled fish. Its fish fillets swimming, actually sinking, in spicy anesthetical sichuan red hot chili sauce. There is another restaurant a few blocks down that makes sichuan food really really spicy. I eat there too, so the spicy here is acceptable to me, they don’t make it as spicy. But it was still pretty spicy.
Okay, next we have something mild and sweet. Walnut shrimp in special sauce. The special sauce tastes like a sweet mayonnaise. The shrimp is battered then fried then coated with the special sauce. Pretty good, but I’ve had better at another restaurant (Jade Village uses bigger fresher shrimps and less batter). They really need to reduce the batter because I could hardly taste the shrimp.
Lastly, I ordered my most most fav eggplant dish in the whole wide world! Dragon Rolls! Its eggplant in special sichuan spicy sauce. What I believe they do is, they take japanese eggplant, give it a continuous slicing, steam it, then fry it out the wazoo. After the fry bath, they drizzle the lovely sauce on top. Majestic I say. You gotta try it sometime, its a treat.
Keep in mind that there was only 2 people eating, k? We hardly put a dent in the dishes. Well, it was really like I ate most of whatever was gone while my grams nibbled on rice. Plenty of leftovers for another 3 meals. It was good, but the spicy got to me afterwards. I ate so much and most of it spicy that my stomach started to feel bad. Next time I really should follow through with portion control…
Each dish was $9.95, the pork buns was $3.95 per order. After tax and tip, it came out close to $50… I guess thats a pretty expensive lunch for 2.
