I figured there was no time like the present to get back in the saddle (or to mix metaphors, I guess) so I hightailed it over on the 66 bus and checked this place out for lunch today. Thought I should try the standard Guizhou beef noodle, and it was pretty darn good. I guess it was the mother who made my rice noodles, & they were cooked perfectly. The broth was definitely subtle, you had said so but I was still surprised how restrained it was. Delicious though, and really I loved the sour cabbage that was in here, too. It might have been my favorite thing in the dish!
Went to Yi Soon for a hot dog bun and and egg tart while I was over here. Love that little place! I also tried to go into Berezka to get some smoked fish, but I swear there is something about this market where unless you’re an 80 year old Russian American woman, you are completely invisible to people behind the counter. I just cut out after standing there for five minutes while the woman talked on the phone.
I also stuck my head into the 88 and looked at Kantin–I didn’t really know about this place before seeing it in that 30 comfort foods piece. Looked like OK HK style duck/pork plates. I didn’t try it since I had just eaten soup and didn’t feel like carrying this stuff on my walk back over the BU bridge (I’ve had duck blowouts before bringing roasted meats back from Chinatown, it’s not pretty) but I’ll take a crack at it someday.
My pic isn’t as good as yours (that’s not a filter folks, it’s just the lens on my crappy phone steaming up, haha) but here it is anyway for proof I really went. And yeah, I sure didn’t have to worry much about being exposed to any coronavirus when I was in there–the place was a ghost town, no one else even came in while I was eating lunch. They won’t last long if business is always like that, unfortunately.
ha, yeah I went early. Too bad about the sour fish soup, that sounds so promising. Don’t know when I’ll get there with 3 people who are ready for fermented fish!
Hmmm, those weirdly broke here but I looked at your Instagram and now I wish I had ordered those fish balls.
I meant to ask: on the spice mix that’s on the beef soup, you said maybe there was white pepper. Is there prickly ash or something in there too? I didn’t get a lot of mouth numbing, but there was a crunchy citrusy note that reminded me of it. There were some black flecks too that I couldn’t place, didn’t seem like black pepper. Not totally sure just what that spice mix was.
In a bizarre twist, the website for “Wing It” still exists…and it has big plate chicken and rice noodles in the slide show. Looking at this online menu, it seems there was a crossover period where they served wings…and Guizhou food…at the same time.
I have a couple more coming! Thanks for the compliments, those are just iPhone 6s shots believe it or not, but I am a “professional” photographer, although I haven’t shot a paid event since Feb 2020! My first one is coming up this weekend, a bit nervous about being rusty!
I beg to differ here, @anon6418899! The first Guizhou restaurant would be the prior version of IQ Kitchen in Newton - granted their offering was limited to rice noodle soup and rice dishes. I have not had these in China so it’s hard to talk authenticity, but the owner put a lot of care into it by making her own sour pickles and rice noodles and the end products were ridiculously tasty. It was the talk of the town when it first opened, and people were gutted when she left. I believe she has moved on to Shin Hakata Ramen near Symphony, but not sure how she’s doing these days.
I stand corrected then. I went a couple of times but couldn’t figure out what was going on between the transition from China City? To IQ and then an ownership change. I mostly went for the Jiang Bing Guo Zi so I incorrectly assumed some kind of mandarin mashup place
None of the links in this thread work. I’m guessing the place has closed. It came and went and I never even heard of it. Guess I better try the Uighur place before it closes.
