6:15 it is.
We should be able to get there by 6 easily. But not enough time to pregame a Katz sandwich or 2!
Eh, it’s Chinese food, so you’ll be hungry an hour later anyway, and Katz’ is open all night!
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See you all at Wu’s at 6:15pm tomorrow (Sat) evening. Reservation for a table indoors under “Steve”. They have wine/beer but have always allowed byob. Hopefully, they still do.
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looking forward to it!!
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I am jealous! I like just about every type of wonton, and this looks excellent.
Enjoy!
Wu’s…cum comedi? My Latin is terrible.
Salt-baked anchovies. Not much evidence of anchovy, plenty of evidence of salt! This would make a good bar snack.
Snow pea leaves with three kinds of egg. Egg was great, leaves a little tough. Nice broth.
Fried grouper. Is a nice fish. Very good with some hot sauce, not as good without.
Seafood casserole. This was a decent version, but it seemed to have been sitting out, as the vegetables were kinda wilty. But the tofu and the seafood did not suffer.
Salt-baked shrimp. Maybe a little too much batter, but that shrimp flavor! Pow!
Razor clams. With some heat, surprisingly. Very nicely prepared, not tough at all.
Pork, I think. People who ate this, jump in and describe it!
Crime scene.
And last, the cheese course. According to our server. We thought it was mango jelly, but we are not experts.
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I really liked this dinner. Much better than the 1st group dinner we had there & better than many of my previous dinners there. The Roast Pork app. is always served cold & it’s never my favorite. The Peking Duck, in my opinion, was excellent, both inside the pancakes and in the large side dish of dark meat. I really enjoyed the seafood casserole, the shrimp & the razor clam dishes. All had fresh ingredients that had taste (not always the case). I always get the grouper & it’s always good enough (& even better with hot oil, as small_h says). And it’s always grouper and not tilapia. I didn’t think much of the anchovies. The snow pea shoots & egg dish wasn’t as good as it should have been, but the broth it created was nice. The bone soup with wontons is alway something I like & the fried rice was (as usual) ehh. Was there anything else? Did we really order (& eat) this much? And only $50/person with a 25%+ tip (no alcohol - they accommodated byob without hesitation). Given all the fresh seafood, a really nice surprise.
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I think we overdid it on the fry, and probably next time I’ll get a braised noodle rather than a fried rice and see how that is.
Another fun meal, but with a full room, group conversation across / around the table seemed harder than usual.
My favorite dish of the night was new to me (which is always a fun benefit of these types of dinners) – the razor clams. They were sauteed simply with aromatics, but fresh and delicious.
The duck was good, though I prefer pancakes to buns in general (and the buns came packed with cucumber, which I don’t eat, so there was that). To me this duck was on par with what we ate at Jiang Nan, but having partaken a couple of times now, I’m just as happy with the take-home half ducks at the prepared food places nearby.
I enjoyed the anchovies a lot more than others did, apparently – they were well-fried and seasoned (though I could have used more spice), as also the snow pea leaves, which I thought were as good as last time.
There was too much similarly-prepared fried stuff on the table IMO. I found the grouper and the shrimp both over-battered (though fresh and well-fried). And everything was short of heat: usually the salt & pepper-style stuff has more hot stuff in the topping mix, both fresh and in the form sichuan peppercorns.
The seafood casserole was probably my least favorite – the sauce had congealed by the time it got to the table, and the seafood was overcooked to my taste. It was tied with the fried rice, which was flavorless.
Agree with @SteveR about the pork served cold – we had the same reaction last time, so I was surprised to see it on the table again.
I enjoy their wontons, but the broth is weak, so I’m curious if the appetizer version is chilli oil-style or something else.
Two things I missed from our last meal at Wu’s – the oysters with ginger and scallion and the scallion sauce chicken; both were more flavorful than everything on the table last night except the razor clams.
Another time I’d also like to try more meat options, as we’ve done a pretty thorough review of seafood between the two meals (for eg @vinouspleasure ate different stuff when he went back).
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II guess I ate all the suckling pig! It was delicious with a great texture but better warm for sure! Duck was good, liked the buns. No cucumber, just scallion in mine tho. The razor clams were the star, flavorwise, loads of flavor. the greens not eggy enough - I have had better versions. Too much fried stuff, the grouper the best of the lot. I think I said at the table that tho the dishes contained fried seasonings - green chiles, ginger, garlic - but the flavor did not make it into the fried items themselves - I think the cornstarch coating is too predominant and seasoning more timid than the best versions of these dishes. Liked the wontons, the broth was pleasant but no more. Seafood casserole meh, though all the seafood was of good quality. Having said all of this, I think this is a good restaurant and we enjoyed the meal and of course the company! Will be there again and try some other dishes - we saw some lovely meat and seafood go by.
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I loved the razor clams, the salt baked anchovies {which were a salt delivery system}, the suckling pig but I agree that it being served cold was odd. It was actually cooler than room temperature. The pea shoots were good and I found a lot of egg at the bottom of the bowl. The broth on it was outstanding. I liked the seafood casserole a lot more than others, it seems. I found the shrimp tasty but overly breaded. And yes, all the food could have been spiced up a little. On the other hand, the ingredients were really good. I loved the wontons but the soup itself was bland.
We seem to be going out with htis group more than any other, even though we ahve to travel from Baltimore to join in {well we might be traveling to see shows but the groups meals have been a really fun think. We have 2 more trips already planned and hope to arrange more.
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thats great, look forward to seeing you and Kay again!
several years ago I read that chinatown restaurants were being cited by the health dept for hanging roast meat. It presented a conundrum for the restaurants which had a long tradition of presenting and storing meat in this fashion. perhaps wu’s response is to throw the meat into a refrigerator.
It’s interesting this photo didnt convince y’all to order the garlic chicken showered with fried shallots. It’s definitely
top five on our “when we’re back in nyc” list.
anyhow, sorry to have missed it, looking forward to the next group meal!
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While this makes sense, the roast duck was served at a warmer temperature.
From my many meals there, I believe that the ducks hanging in the window (alongside the chickens & meats) are not those used for the Peking Duck dish. When I’ve been there at times that they weren’t as slammed as the other night, they did the more “traditional” presentation of the whole duck to the table, then carved slices for the buns & then left a plate with the remaining breast meat, the legs, and skin. We once asked them to leave the carcass for take out (the friends we were with wanted to make soup & side dishes at home) and they did, albeit with slight attitude/disbelief.
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I saw a facebook reel of a group of young professional demolishing 2 king crabs at what looked like wu’s. May have been the group across from us. They spent $1200 for 5 people!
Were they large people?
No! Rather young and hungry appearing.
“… young and hungry appearing”?
Caesar
Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look,
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.
For they do tend to eat wonton before I can.
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