Delivery: Yes Take-out: Yes Good for Kids: Yes Good for Groups: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
1 review
Ariane Roda
I had high expectations after reading reviews in the edible Queens magazine and on the Serious Eats website and was disappointed. The service was a little slow, especially for a Friday night. There were 2-3 other tables there.
I've never had chinese-peruvian food and didn't know what to expect, maybe I didn't order the right thing? I ordered the Egg Drop Soup (one article stated it was egg drop soup on crack). It was definitely interesting, with roast pork and dark-meat chicken in it, vermicelli glass noodles, scallions, and cabbage. But the overall flavor of the soup seemed somewhere in-between and lacking. Same for the Chi jau kay that was recommended. It took a long time waiting for this dish. The chicken was breaded and cooked perfectly, but the light brown sauce that it was sitting on top of was neither too salty or sweet. It seemed slightly flavored by soy sauce, but nothing that called to mind the rich flavors of latin cooking- or chinese actually.
My friend ordered the pork chops with tamarind sauce. What she got was sliced roast bbq (chinese style) pork with a sort of red sweet & sour sauce on top and peach halves, sauteed with pea pods. Not what we expected, and no tamarind flavor. I'm wondering if they ran out of pork chops. The fried plantains were good, and their green sauce that accompanies each meal was Awesome- just spicy enough, but very flavorful. I wish the food was the same.
They ran out of the chica moradao, I was looking forward to it.
I'd like to come back for lunch and try their rotisserie chicken, but there are other places that are move convenient, if you're just going for the rotisserie chicken.
Getting here wasn't too difficult, take the R to Grand Ave, and catch the Q58. It drops you right in front of the restaurant. The neighborhood doesn't seem to have much else going on (apparently it's Corona, but bordering Elmhurst), glad I didn't walk.
I had high expectations after reading reviews in the edible Queens magazine and on the Serious Eats website and was disappointed. The service was a little slow, especially for a Friday night. There were 2-3 other tables there.
I've never had chinese-peruvian food and didn't know what to expect, maybe I didn't order the right thing? I ordered the Egg Drop Soup (one article stated it was egg drop soup on crack). It was definitely interesting, with roast pork and dark-meat chicken in it, vermicelli glass noodles, scallions, and cabbage. But the overall flavor of the soup seemed somewhere in-between and lacking. Same for the Chi jau kay that was recommended. It took a long time waiting for this dish. The chicken was breaded and cooked perfectly, but the light brown sauce that it was sitting on top of was neither too salty or sweet. It seemed slightly flavored by soy sauce, but nothing that called to mind the rich flavors of latin cooking- or chinese actually.
My friend ordered the pork chops with tamarind sauce. What she got was sliced roast bbq (chinese style) pork with a sort of red sweet & sour sauce on top and peach halves, sauteed with pea pods. Not what we expected, and no tamarind flavor. I'm wondering if they ran out of pork chops. The fried plantains were good, and their green sauce that accompanies each meal was Awesome- just spicy enough, but very flavorful. I wish the food was the same.
They ran out of the chica moradao, I was looking forward to it.
I'd like to come back for lunch and try their rotisserie chicken, but there are other places that are move convenient, if you're just going for the rotisserie chicken.
Getting here wasn't too difficult, take the R to Grand Ave, and catch the Q58. It drops you right in front of the restaurant. The neighborhood doesn't seem to have much else going on (apparently it's Corona, but bordering Elmhurst), glad I didn't walk.