No-nonsense counter serve offering a familiar menu of soups, stir-fries, seafood & combo plates.
Address and Contact Information
Address: 227 Muddy Branch Rd, Gaithersburg, MD 20878
Phone: (301) 926-1100
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Reviews
I have known the chef for many years. He is an expert on traditional Chinese Sichuan Cuisine. He had had his own small restaurant for many years in Rockville but had to sold it due to the rising cost. He prefers to be hired as a chef so that he is able to focus on cooking.
If you like spicy Chinese food, it is a must-go restaurant for sure. There is variety of non-spicy food available as well.
The Chinese Hamburger (not spicy), spicy beef (in soup), spicy fish (in soup), fish flavored eggplant, stir-fried cabbage, stir-fried lamb or beef, shredded pork and dried tofu, bite size fried chicken… are my favorites! I know my favorite list seems too long. But it is the truth.
I went there yesterday with a party of 15 so that I had an opportunity to taste a lot of food. And I am so glad to see some of my favorite dishes on the table.
Overall the flavors were good, the dumplings and wonton texture first-rate, and the meats were very tender. Our main criticism would be that the intensity of the flavors could have been kicked up a notch (imagine the difference between a single stroke of a red pencil and a dozen strokes). The Ma-po tofu, for example, was hardly the exquisite tastebud torture that we have come to expect from a Ma-la-style dish.
We are, of course, quite aware of the technical difficulties that most restaurants are facing right now and we are willing to give the benefit of the doubt for any culinary shortcoming. (Unless we are talking about egregious mess-ups and lazy cooking).
This operation will remain on our radar for another go during these trying times and afterwards, as well.
This place has been a delight to my family when we come here. My mother and I were able to share this dish on a Tuesday. Everything from the sticker decorated walls, the pillows on the seats, the restrooms and especially the managers were extremely incredible. Highly recommend!
The servers were very nice amd I have no complaints about the food, except that I didn’t need to drive for an hour to have the same menu I have least 6 of in my own town.
I’m guessing from pictures on Google that the owners changed hands in the somewhat recent past.