In a month Chinese New Year is coming up. I’m trying to organize a get-together for my coworkers. We all want to go to Chinatown, but I’m having a problem coming up with a restaurant. The only Chinese person in the office can’t think of anything, and she’s going to be in China anyway. All I could come up with is China Pearl, Peach Farm, and Ocean Wealth. I need to find a place that can do both the exotic (for me) and the mundane (for everyone else). A place that serves both pickled chicken feet and chop suey. In Chinatown is our first choice.
Any suggestions?
And since New Years lasts for 15 days, maybe we can do a Dopefest as well.
That’s all you could come up with? Chinatown is practically wall to wall restaurants. I’ve eaten at several, but I don’t remember any of the names – I know them by where they are.
If you go on the North Shore, I recommend Peking Garden on Rte. 1 in Danvers and Peking Reading opn 129 )at 128) in Reading
I know it’s all Great Wall to Great Wall restaurants, but I’ve only eaten at a few. And I know they vary widely in quality, so I don’t want to pick something blind.
Danvers and Reading are too far. Boston, Cambridge, and Newton are about as far as we can go.
Gotta disagree with Sonia about Kowloon – we’re unimpressed.
But if you are a little further south on Route One North there’s an incredible Chinese Restaurant standing on a high, just where 99 meets Route 1. It used to be Weylu’s. I forget the current name, but it’sd easily the m,ost impressive Chinese Restaurant in the Boston area. Huge, with plenty of parking, atop a hill. The interior is vast and rickly decorated, and the food’s good too!
I recommend Royal East, 292 Main St. in Cambridge, near MIT. (Hong Kong-style cooking; if you’re looking for Hunan or Szechuan you might want to go somewhere else.)
Wasn’t Danvers and Reading. It was Saugus, Revere and Needham on the Newton line. All are a short drive outside of Boston, which is why I recommended them.
I’ve never had anything but seafood at Jumbo, so I can’t comment on the chicken.
I agree about the former Weylu’s place, whatever it’s called now. It’s very good. I was going to list it but, like other posters here, I couldn’t remember its new name. Maybe the Saugus Chamber of Commerce could tell you? http://www.sauguschamber.org/
I’ve eaten at Kowloon many, many times starting in the 1960s and most recently last month and never had a disappointing meal there.
I have to SERIOUSLY recommend the Wok N Roll in Cambridge, Porter Square. It looks like a tiny nothing place but it has amazing food, it’s honestly the best, most fresh, never disappointing Chinese food ever. Plus, we have the same waiter every time and he is hilarious. He thanks you a million times. My fiancee and I go there often, it’s “our” restaurant. Honestly, check it out.