I returned for a few more items.
No. 16 Wasabi sauce bean gel : The shape, and bumpy texture of the shrimp-shaped, hand-formed, curls of bean gel provided lots of places for the soy and sesame paste dressing to adhere. Fun texture and much easier to pick up than the type of mung bean gel strips depicted in the menu photos. Wasabi was too far in the background for my taste, but YMMV.
No. 45 shredded pork with bean sauce : the combo of pork shreds, sweet bean sauce (tianmianjiang, not to be confused with red bean paste), green onion shreds, and flour pancakes is kind of like a cross between mu shu pork and Peking duck. Overall, I liked it but a portion of the pork shreds were overcooked and mealy, and the green onions sat in a pool of oil underneath the pork.
No. 21 stir fried wheat and cornmeal biscuit : The “biscuits” ( chao ge da), elsewhere called “flour balls”, were firm and chewy dough cubes— I’d like to learn to make these at home. While I appreciated the use of fresh zucchini and carrots, unlike frozen vegetables at other places selling this dish, I found the knife work sloppy, with unevenly cut pieces, and the dish unnecessarily oily.
