Went out to dindins at Lucky Strike with the m0nejer after work ^^. It’s been far too long since I last had any good (or real) Chinese food at a restaurant. Never thought I could actually find even a remotely decent Chinese restaurant in Oregon until now… but I’m from New York so my opinion here is a bit very biased.
This was the most anticipated dish on the menu. It is called “Hot Pepper Chicken Bath” or something like that. I think the name and photo speaks for itself and its taste :D. By volume, I think there were a lot more chili peppers than chicken bits XD.
Pineapple fried rice was full of yum. Big chunks of pineapple and… spam.
The place claims to be a Chinese restaurant but it serves this Thai dish, Korean pancakes, and kimchi fried rice… on a sushi platter no less xD. I’m not complaining though since the food was delicious and the environment was very contemporary (apparently all the furniture and decors were from IKEA ^^;).
I noticed its Chinese entrees were mainly of Szechuan (四川) origin so I just had to try their Mapo Tofu. Oh my was it awesome. I can pretty much call this “Hot Tofu Pepper Bath” :D. Oh yea, don’t I need like some sort of figure to be in the photo too? Maybe I’ll use a Gundam next time…
Chili peppers, ginger, garlic… and last but not least (and most importantly), sichuan peppercorn (this stuff gives your tongue an awesome numb feeling). They’re all here… in that pool of la yu ahaha. Had to eat most of the spicy dishes by myself as the monejer couldn’t handle anything more than ground black pepper… Hope I don’t get any stomach attacks later tonight xD.
Do you get to enjoy Chinese food in your neck of the woods?
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December 28, 2009 at 12:05 AM
Those chillies… Those mouth-watering wonderful chillies… :b
Nothing a zest in your food to give it some “omph”. Me, I prefer fiery ones… :)
No chilly, no fun.
December 28, 2009 at 12:19 AM
AMEN!
December 28, 2009 at 12:33 AM
Mmm. Those things look pretty yummy.
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Hey Z, you’re registered at pinoygundam, am I right?
December 28, 2009 at 12:49 AM
site sounds familiar… that means I probably haven’t touched that forum (along with all the ones I used to visit) in a longgg time ^^;.
December 28, 2009 at 12:52 AM
I am canto so yeah..Chinese food is beautiful. Its just so damn good. Spicy=A must have on Chinese food.
Also Viet. Food is great too. Spicy as well. xDD
December 28, 2009 at 12:58 AM
Ohh… i ate too much Chinese foo since i am from Chinese family… I’m always hunting on Italian… XD
December 28, 2009 at 1:34 AM
Looks tasty, Chinese food is beautiful and tasty for me and my families.
December 28, 2009 at 1:51 AM
Yummei!!!!! Very good food indeed!^^ kinda like to try that tofu dish there^^. hope they had a lot of milk there (I find it much more better than water to diffuse the tingling feeling)
I think nendoroid Miku or Ryuk wouldn’t mind posing beside those savory dishes^^
December 28, 2009 at 3:54 AM
Hey Z, what street is this restaurant on? I think I’ve passed by it before but can’t remember.. I have to check it out.
December 28, 2009 at 4:17 AM
Definitely love Chinese food! Wanna go have dinner in Chinatown with friends sometime.
Oh, and there’s a Lucky Strike here as well (in SoHo to be exact), but I didn’t quite get to see the menu. Didn’t make it past the bar ^^;
December 28, 2009 at 5:11 AM
SHARE NOW D: all I had was brocolli!!
December 28, 2009 at 5:50 AM
thats a lot of chillies…
December 28, 2009 at 6:32 AM
ah that would kill me.
December 28, 2009 at 6:52 AM
Like the first dish. Very intimidating to stare down before you dig in. Hahhah Im from Philly so we have like a bajillion Viet restaurants, and a few Chinese one, unless you head down Chinatown then there are a few more, but they still have Viet restaurants there.
I enjoy the morning dim sum the most, shu mai goodness. c:
December 28, 2009 at 7:12 AM
check this out^^ http://www.youtube.com/user/rrobbert184#p/u/52/EnSqQUKvLIk
December 28, 2009 at 10:03 AM
…………….isn’t that a bit too much chilli for the first dish? I barely see anything more than 5 pieces or so of that chilli in my local dish.
I can’t imagine “substituting” rice with chilli like that. ^^;
December 28, 2009 at 6:11 PM
yeah… i kinda eat chinese food everyday, since im canto. mmmmm fried rice… never tried it with pineapple tho ^^; that’s quite a bit of chili in the first one tho. still, you’ve gotta to love tofu swiming in hot sauce/soup.
December 28, 2009 at 6:56 PM
WOW !!
All that chili looks GOOD ( too bad chili gives me nightmares at night)
December 28, 2009 at 6:59 PM
Just saying that’s me up there where it says “anonymous says” Forgot to put my name up there ^^;
December 28, 2009 at 8:57 PM
lol I was just about to go up and have lunch with my grandparents as I was reading this. Chinese food is something I face almost every day over in Hong Kong ^^;
Oh btw, I checked with a local model shop regarding on the top coat. Over here in Hong Kong top coat spray cans are still in stock as normal. Since spray cans are dangerous goods they cannot be transported via planes / EMS. While this law exists for some time already I think it’s got reinforced a bit more recently, and the rest comes down to liscensing and distribution I guess.
December 28, 2009 at 9:40 PM
o0o… there’s more Chinese/Canto people here than I realize. Awesome ^^. Even though I have Chinese food everyday too, home food is still different than restaurant food.
Eric, I believe it’s on 122nd and powell. It doesn’t look like a Chinese restaurant.
Ahya, +1 for the dim sum!
Erazer, I’ve seen that video before awhile back. Pretty amazing place. I hope to be there in person one of these days…
Chris, sichuan people are crazy like that. It’s normal… xD
Q, thanks for the heads up. At least now I know I can get it in HK also xD. I’m envious of people living in HK… the access to all that good food.. @.@
December 28, 2009 at 10:10 PM
me too, hope to go there and get lost^^
December 28, 2009 at 10:51 PM
wow. the number of chilli in there is crazy. u r eating the chilli or the chicken? haha. talking bout ma bo tauf, i didn’t know that they have a szechuan pepper inside! totally didn’t know bout this pepper as well :(
December 28, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Wait till you give the crazy Spicy Steamboat that the Taiwanese used to have. Those can blow your mind right off the bat. But in my place in South East Asia, Pineapple Fried Rice are more towards a common food of the Thais, instead of Cantonese/Chinese :)
December 28, 2009 at 11:35 PM
DEAR GOD, Those spicy food I ate last X mas party look so pacifistic. BTW Does anyones hair start itching right after having the spicy feeling on your tongue?
December 28, 2009 at 11:57 PM
Mike, the peppers were unfortunately kinda inedible so I had to plow through all that pepper to find a piece of chicken xD
lilweiser, yea… that pineapple fried rice is a thai dish instead of Chinese but just so happens to be made in a Chinese restaurant xD
gunstray, not me o_0 but if the food is spicy enough (which is REAL spicy) then my ears start hurting ^^;.
December 29, 2009 at 2:40 AM
@ Z:
And also all that access to gunpla and various merchandise too XD