Comments on: Old School. East vs. West. https://www.saltshaker.net/20181006/old-school-east-vs-west Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Sun, 10 Jul 2022 13:52:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Old School Specials – SaltShaker https://www.saltshaker.net/20181006/old-school-east-vs-west#comment-270409 Sun, 10 Jul 2022 13:52:27 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=26395#comment-270409 […] I’ve been to many of them. Some favorites… Venison ravioli in mushroom cream sauce at Miramar. Top round steak in mustard sauce at Cantina Pantaleón. Fried smelt at Gijon. Fried calamari […]

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By: Blown in from the Northwest https://www.saltshaker.net/20181006/old-school-east-vs-west#comment-262004 Fri, 08 Feb 2019 21:58:17 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=26395#comment-262004 […] palate style that we see not just here, but in much of the west. Places like Caracol de Amor and Old Beijing that have menus only in Chinese, and you either have to figure out your way through them with the […]

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By: dan https://www.saltshaker.net/20181006/old-school-east-vs-west#comment-261380 Thu, 11 Oct 2018 12:37:35 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=26395#comment-261380 Okay, so with the help of the son of a friend of mine, we’ve got a reasonably good translation of the Old Beijing menu. Basically, the first column is “Mongolian Hot Pot” and is a list of the options for what you want in your hot pot – in order: lamb, beef, tripe, bean starch vermicelli, dried tofu, fresh tofu, fried tofu, prawns, crabsticks, fish balls, pork balls, oyster mushrooms, squid, potato, greens, tempura vegetables.

The second column starts with a choice of three broths: their house secret broth with, basically, chinese five spice and other stuff; a light broth, and a spicy/numbing broth of chili and szechuan peppercorn. The fourth option is for a divided pot that allows you to have more than one broth – it doesn’t specify if you get a choice of two, or all three….

Then a list of beverages: Beijing sorghum whiskey, red wine, beer, sodas, mineral water, soy milk, jasmine tea

And then the third column is a mix of noodle and stir fry dishes: black bean noodles (the one we had above), beef noodles, sesame noodles, hot oil noodles, tomato noodles, shredded pork noodles, kung pao chicken, then two versions of the jian bing, the first is a platter of meat filled jian bing that has to be ordered in advance, the second is the classic, that we had above. Then a list of dumplings: wontons, pork dumplings, lamb dumplings, steamed stuffed buns, and then rice.

If anyone wants the file, with the chinese characters and the transliteration of how to pronounce the chinese names, send me an email and I’ll send you the file. I don’t have a way to reliably reproduce the chinese characters here on the blog.

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