Rating: A
Location: 400 N Greenville Ave, Richardson, TX 75081
Category: Chinese
Price: $
Pros: Soup Dumplings, Egg Drop Soup, Price, BYOB!
Cons: A little hard to find among all of the surrounding Asian restaurants
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| Egg Drop Soup |
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| Hot and Sour Soup |
We immediately ordered soups, Green Onion Pancakes and the Soup Dumplings for the table. I opted for Egg Drop soup, which was the favorite compared to the Hot and Sour soup, which had such a wonderful silky texture, but just needed a touch of salt. Another table member ordered a big steaming bowl of Korean Style Seafood Noodles, which he very nicely allowed me to taste. It had bits of little clams, crab claw meat, scallops and long strands of noodles swimming in a gorgeous shade of orange broth. Slightly spicy, with a wonderful “in your face” taste of the sea. Next, the pancakes arrived, which were golden brown and crispy on the outside, and tender and flaky with little flecks of green onion on the inside….So delicious. But we weren’t here for the soup and pancakes; we were here for the Soup Dumplings……and what a presentation that was when those babies arrived. The waiter places a giant bamboo steamer along with two little dishes of the ginger dipping sauce in the middle of the table and pulls the top off revealing 8 beautifully wrapped pockets of pork (and 8 more underneath), which tossed aside my all of my mother’s hard work to make me a lady…..my manners were non-existent. I didn’t wait for anyone else to go first, I grabbed my chopsticks and dove in. I was told to take precautions before biting into these suckers because they will bight back with a squirt of boiling hot liquid, hince the 'soup' part of the name, either at you or the person next to you. I listened and poked into the dumpling to let out some liquid before taking a bite. They were they amazing! Our well informed friend at the table told us that this type of Dumpling is hard to find, and that these are the best in Dallas. Supposedly, they are different because they add in fat (I’m guessing pork fat) along with the meat before wrapping them up and steaming them. Well whatever they do, they are good! If not for anything else, come here for the Soup Dumplings!
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| Korean Style Seafood Noodles |
We left feeling very satisfied and full, especially our wallets. The prices at Jeng Chi are extremely reasonable, so if you are traveling a little further than normal, it will just be gas that you are spending more of your hard earned money on. Also, the gorgeous baked goods stare at you near the doorway on your way out hoping that you will grab one of them and take them home, but our stomachs were well expanded already. Next time!
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| Green Onion Pancakes |
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| Soup Dumplings and Ginger Dipping Sauce |
Those actually aren't potstickers. Potstickers are the dumplings that are typically panfried... something you'll easily find at any Americanized Asian restaurant Ie: PF Chang.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure they're called potstickers because it refers to the dumplings sticking in the pan (pot) it's cooked in. That's why pot stickers are often charred on the bottom. (That's just my guess though.)
They're called "Xiaolongbao" and many Asian Americans refer to their English nicknames as "soup dumplings." The soup inside is probably from some sort of aspic added inside the dumpling and melted during steaming.
Anyways... Jeng Chi is delicious. I grew up on their noodles and dumplings. Glad you got to experience what the Dallas "Chinatown" had to offer :)
Thanks Claire for the heads up and the info about soup dumplings! I'll change the mistake! They were absolutely delicious!
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