No pics, but I stopped by the midtown east location of Kung Fu xlb this week, and it was consistent with my frequent experience at the midtown west one.
They’ve taken the giant jars of chilli oil off the table, which was probably a pandemic thing, and are back to the “normal” chilli oil vs the better / slightly pasty with probably chilli bean sauce version that they had for a while (used to be the second one they’d give – you had ask twice, lol).
The crab and pork xlb were flavorful and with a not-too-thick-not-too-thin skin, the pan-fried dumplings were as expected (and tasty), the scallion pancake with beef (which I fondly refer to as Chinese kathi roll) seemed a bit under-filled vs what I’ve had before, but good, my friends enjoyed the cucumber, and we shared a duck ramen because they wanted it – good, but I don’t order ramen or stir-fried dishes there if I can help it.
Glad they are still doing well. Gotta get back to Joe’s.
(In weird nyc things and people, a couple with a baby came in after us and sat down, ordered a bunch of food, ate their soup dumplings, then started to get up before the rest of their food was served. Apparently they “needed to go” and didn’t want to pay for the rest of the food that hadn’t been served, and didn’t want to take it to go, never mind that it had already been fired. Huh? Don’t know how that ended.)
