The siu mai was decent-while nothing mind blowing, fans of the dish won't be disappointed with what they're getting. We ended up sitting in the back area, which had me a little disappointed as this usually means getting a smaller selection of dishes. Just give it a try, and I bet that like me, you'll be slurping down chicken feet in no time.įrom the outside Jade Garden looks small, but after stepping inside I realized that it's actually quite large. Don't be shy if you're new to dim sum-servers introduce each dish, and even if you don't recognize the names, it's unlikely you can go wrong. Jade Garden was a pleasant surprise for a Chinese cuisine novice like myself. I would venture that even for a person with a hearty appetite, this is one of the better lunch deals in town. Each plate (split amongst three people) offered a good-sized serving without constituting an entire course. In any case, this is not the kind of place to visit for four-star service-the food is the real reason for coming.īut perhaps the best surprise is that not only was the food incredibly tasty, but at $3.00 per plate, it was a fantastic value. Servers didn't bend over backwards for us, but there were also no flagrant offenses. Servers also do not handle the bills for guests-you must go up front for that. While we were given tea, water was never offered. The service was a little spotty-first, our dish selection was a little hampered because stairs separating the front dining area from the back where we were seated meant that we only got a couple of carts circulating around us. To my pleasant surprise, each dish introduced new, distinct flavors and textures, much more beyond the same few flavors that seem to turn up at a lot of American Chinese places. The tangy garlic sauce was the dominant flavor, so don't worry about any of the strong tastes that sometimes accompany odd animal parts.
JADE GARDEN SEATTLE DIM SUM HOURS SKIN
It might sound alarming, but to eat them you simply chew or slurp off the soft bits of the feet-if you're having trouble getting over the psychological barrier of eating FEET, just think of it as soft chicken skin on a wing.
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We ordered seven dishes in all, and top on my list were: the carrot cake, a bar-shaped savory rice flour cake combining what seemed to be bits of radish and shrimp with taro or potato to create a starchy, herby utterly delicious cake sticky rice, in which a serving of short-grain rice plus tasty nuggets of meat and mushrooms were mixed with a sweet, fatty brown sauce and wrapped in two gigantic leaves, imparting a smoky rich, woody flavor and lastly the chicken feet-little claws fried and soaked in a garlic glaze.
My first bite at Jade Garden completely blew away my first dim sum experience-I realized that this was somewhere I definitely DID need to visit again. There were a couple of good-sized live tanks toward the front-a good sign for seafood lovers. Gazing around the room I also noticed a lot of cute/kitschy decor like oversized Chinese ornaments and giant maneki neko statues. Poking my head around the corner, I saw that the dining room was packed with happy lunch patrons, all sharing an abundance of little metal dishes containing dim sum treats. The place is clearly popular, as I could see a couple of parties ahead of us waiting for tables. After having moseyed up 7th Avenue, the bustling, slightly chaotic foyer of the restaurant was a bit of a jolt. So it was as a relative newcomer that I came to Jade Garden. It wasn't bad, but also wasn't anything I've felt the need to revisit in the five or so years since. Given the grab bag of options for dim sum in the area, it's hard to know which places will be good, and which one won't-we were hoping for the Bruce Lee of restaurants, but ended up with something more like Chuck Norris-fine, but not quite the same. The first time I'd had dim sum previously was at a tourist trap place a few blocks away from Jade Garden in the International District-neither the friend I was with nor I knew what we were doing or what to look for (we didn't have Chef Seattle's handy dim sum guide!) so we did not find one of the best places in town.
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