Jackson Holtz: 42 Garden Chinese Restaurantġ6300 Mill Creek Blvd., next to Mill Creek Town Center 42 Speciality: Dim sum and Chinese. One time at dim sum in Vancouver, B.C., I pointed at a bowl of a mysterious food and asked the waitress what it was. That’s part of the fun of trying foods from other cultures: Order something and see what you find.ĭon’t worry, the staff likely will warn you away from food that’s too foreign. ![]() I actually thought I’d ordered a sweet with the sticky rice pie, only to discover it was savory. There are many Chinese desserts, including fruit, various sesame and custards. My favorite, though, was the shrimp and spinach dumpling ($3.75), a pocket of sticky, grass-colored dough wrapped around the best blend of seafood, herbs and spinach. A plate of Chinese broccoli was good, but at $6.25, a bit pricey for a plate of steamed veggies. The steamed buns - we tried the chicken and mushroom filling ($3.25) - were just right. We went for shrimp and they were succulent and perfectly cooked. Rice rolls ($4.75) are big, wide rice noodles rolled up with pork, meat or shrimp. Sticky rice pies ($3.75) are the Chinese equivalent of meat pies. Mini sticky rice ($3.75) is a bundle of love: ground pork and Chinese sausage is stuffed with glutenous rice inside a leaf you open like it’s Christmas morning. The portions are served either on a plate or in a bamboo steamer. (Both are $3.25)Įvery dish is two or three bites big. The onion buns came with bit of lightly caramelized scallions. Inside the pork bun are bits of red, tender meat that has you reaching for a second. We started with baked pork buns and baked onion buns. Instead, a server comes by with a tray full of treats to get you started, then items are ordered off a menu. Since most, if not all, items are cooked to order, therefore some waiting time is required but it's definitely worth the wait. ![]() It doesn’t quite work that way at Zen Garden, in part because of several steps leading through the restaurant. Kung Fu Dim Sum is a causal restaurant with about 8 branches in different districts of Hong Kong where excellent Cantonese dim sum dishes such as shrimp dumplings, barbecued pork. It’s a bit worn - it opened in the ’80s - but the food is good and eating dim sum is always fun.Īt some dim sum restaurants, including the one I went to on the other side of the globe, food is served from small carts piled high with plates of steamed, fried and baked dough and noodles stuffed with pork, seafood, beef or a combination. This is a relaxing restaurant, but the food is most definitely worth getting excited about.In fact, Zen Garden is the only Hong Kong-style dim sum I could find in Snohomish County. The only pops of colour come from the magenta chairs, reminiscent of every beauty campaign that’s tricked us into buying another de-stress serum, liberal splashes of chilli oil, and the fluorescent fish roe on top of the one-bite-wonder crab xiao long bao. The walls are a crisp white, the banquette seating is perfect for adopting a near-horizontal posture your chiropractor definitely wouldn’t approve of, and you’ll feel as gloriously sedate as the glimmering whole ducks hanging in the front window. It's a peaceful, therapeutic-feeling place, as good alone as it is with a similarly cosy-clad best mate. Hong Kong Restaurant is the kind of place you can go in your trackies-you know, the fluffy ones that have never seen the inside of a gym-to eat hypnotically chewy king prawn cheung fun to a healing soundtrack of pan flutes. A meal at Hong Kong Restaurant, a delightfully peaceful Cantonese spot on Upper Street, is the opposite. There are few things modern Londoners won’t do in our quest to secure a little relaxation amidst the chaos of Being Alive, and having the cortisol levels of a Serengeti herbivore on the run from a leopard every time you receive an email.
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