Thwarted by Deluxe Green Bo being closed (which hopefully is just renovations and not something more extreme), but just as well in the end, because:
A return to Joe’s Shanghai for the still-excellent crab & pork soup dumplings / xlb.
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First time for me sitting down at Green Garden Village, from which I have taken out roast meats before (also from the place next door – 218). We got there at staff lunch time, so after we got served, everyone sat down at the tables around us and dug into their delicious-looking braised squash and some kind of beef (or maybe oxtail).
We, on the other hand, ate beef cheung fun and soy sauce chicken and pork char siu over rice. The chicken was fabulous, silky and perfectly flavored. The char siu we got a crappy piece of, oh well (I saw nice glistening portions elsewhere). The cheng fun was very flavorful, which was a relief to me because the last few iterations of beef cheung fun I have tried have been woefully un- or under-seasoned. Not this one, well-marinated and with plentiful cilantro to help it along. The noodle itself was of the rougher variety (ie not the delicacy of King’s, more the scoop-off of the fast places), but was a tasty dish.
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A little bit of capacity left (but not enough to do justice to a banh mi), on to Shu Jiao Fu Zhou for a small order of chicken & mushroom dumplings.
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The planned conclusion was steamed molasses cake (with a cup of coffee for me) at the bakery, but they didn’t have any of the cake, and we didn’t feel like anything more, so that was the end of that!
