A-Pou’s Taste Cart
“But the pot stickers are pretty boss so just go for them.”
“potstickers + Chinese spaghetti – $8
Optional: Big Drink (16 oz.) – $1
Their menu also includes milk teas (taro, green, etc.), Hot & Sour Soup, and Corn Chowder Soup.”
“This is becoming one of my go to places for lunch down in financial district.”
A-Pou’s Taste Cart
Take-out: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
6 reviews
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I like the dumplings a lot even though I'm told I'm wrong in comparing them to native dumpling places. Delicious but $$$ for dumplings (10 bucks for 20). Nice variety of filling options.
I went here the other day and at last…they still had veggie dumplings! So delicious! I love this cart. I think I have been ODing with the hot sauce though.
Be careful, it will give you heartburn. The corn soup is also very good.
Tried 3 kinds of their dumplings (omitting the vegetarian). The beef kimchi was a little spicy, the chicken was fine, and the pork was fine but as some people mentioned, there was very little difference between the taste of the pork and chicken dumplings. Overall the dumplings had a little bit of burnt bottoms but this was not consistent. I wanted to like them more but they were just OK.
"Lunch special A please". "Yea, Give me lunch special C." It was a bit weird and nostalgic as I listened to the people ordering in front of me. They reminded me of my hey days at fast-food joints as my daily go-to lunch spots. Since I've discovered Yelp, I've ventured near and far to visit the popular and not so popular as well as the newly established local spots. Needless to say, back to Apou's. I constantly perused the short menu as I waited on line, 5 or 10 potstickers, hmmmmm.
For lunch specials:
A) 5 pc. potstickers + Chinese spaghetti – $6
B) 10 pc. potstickers – $6
C) 10 pc. potstickers + Chinese spaghetti – $8
Optional: Big Drink (16 oz.) – $1
Their menu also includes milk teas (taro, green, etc.), Hot & Sour Soup, and Corn Chowder Soup.
Averaging 2-3 minutes per customer on what was a 10-12 person line, I finally made it to the front after a long 20something minutes. My mind was made up when I overhead they didn't have chicken and vegetable potstickers, so I opted for Lunch special A, with 3 pork and 2 beef. I gladly nodded when the guy asked if I had wanted soy sauce and hot sauce. The freshly fried potstickers and spaghetti were slowly thrown in a styrofoam platter, sauces poured on top, and I was on my way to happy feasting.
Two-thirds of the platter was filled with noodles, which sort of tasted and resembled the Twin Marquis cooked noodles that you normally find at many Asian supermarkets. I had no gripes with that as I love the taste of Twin Marquis noodles alone, but A-Pou's was taken a step up, complimented with fresh parsley, scallions, julienned carrots, mushrooms, cabbage. Yum! Prepared in thin-skinned dough, the potstickers were shallow-fried so that the bottom is nice and crispy. The minced pork was tasty but slightly overcooked. This was extremely evident in the beef potstickers, which had tears in the dough, making the beef visible. Both beef potstickers looked like dried turds, overcooked, dry and bordering dangerously close to rubbery. But that was all fixed with the sweet soy sauce and hot chili sauce. The hot chili sauce, similar to a Sriracha but thicker in consistency, packed some good heat and was delish with the noodles and potstickers.
So why would I give this place 4 stars? Because I would like to give it the benefit of the doubt that my beef potstickers were accidentally overcooked. That was easily overlooked with the sweet soy and hot chili sauce, which for some reason, made my dish 5x better. I acknowledge their higher price for having to manually handmake every potsticker, which isn't extremely difficult to do. But With the simplicity of this dish, I would be more inclined to come again if they put this at the $5 mark.
Located in the row of food truck vendors at or around 140 Broadway, I concur with other reviews which rave about its Taiwanese delishiousness, especially its famed noodles whose Korean infusion gives them a special kick & memorable taste that makes it absolutely worth the wait not only because it's 1 of the few good yet affordable food options in FiDi. Make friends with other food lovers in line is my advice.
There was something missing in the chicken potstickers (recommended by the guy in the cart) and lo mein. Aw yeh, I know what it was…FLAVOR!!! The portion size was huge, well worth the $6 price tag but for a little taste, I would've even added a dollar. The soy sauce and hot sauce weren't enough to save the dish. I was really excited about this cart but I was truly disappointed.