Comments on: Chopsticks

By: dan

dan — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:01:12 +0000

I’ve been back here a couple of times now, and most recently, we’d seen that they had a couple of dishes labeled “vietnamese” and “picante”. Figuring we’d give that a shot, having noted the dearth of southeast asian food here, we ordered a bowl of what was simply listed as sopa de fideos con carne vietnamese (picante), or spicy Vietnamese beef noodle soup. Lo and behold, what arrived was a bowl of fairly good pho. It’s not dead-on, by any means, and it wasn’t remotely, in any form or sense of the word, picante, though, we’d already asked for hot sauce to go with our appetizers and rather than the ubiquitous bottle of tabasco or red pepper flakes in oil, received an actual spicy paste of garlic and chilies, which spiked this up nicely. We’ll be back to try a few more of the dishes labelled for the southeast…

By: dan

dan — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:34:52 +0000

Although the specialties, like the venison, were pricey, most of the more standard stuff was about the same as any other restaurant in Barrio Chino. As noted, however, I still like Lai-Lai better in general.

By: Marce

Marce — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:51:04 +0000

True, I had forgotten about the coffee-tea drink there! It was absolutely remarkable and surprising, I need to go again to refresh my memory and try to reproduce it at home. I did enjoy the grilled dumplings, not so much the fish soup I order. It is a tad overpriced for being a Chinese restaurant, but I´m sure there are many things to be discovered in the huge menu they have.