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Pregnant and craving good Chinese food
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Anonymous
We're in DC. I have to have it 
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Anonymous
| Mei wah (sp?) is really good. Clean and good ingredients. It could also be the snow. I think of Chinese as a great comfort food. Go to town on it!! |
Anonymous
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City Lights in Dupont Circle (Connecticut Ave) is good.
Mei Wah is also good. |
Anonymous
| A&J In Rockville or Arlington. We're in DC too but I guarantee its worth the drive. |
Anonymous
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We really like Mei Wah too but LOVE LOVE LOVE
Shanghai Village 4929 Bethesda Avenue Bethesda, MD 20814-5203 (301) 654-7788 |
Anonymous
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sorry lady, you are out of luck in dc.
the only decent place i'd recommend is "joe's noodle house" on rockville pike. |
Anonymous
| I'd agree with PP except we love Oriental East in Silver Spring. Not as far away as Rockville though! |
Anonymous
| My favorite DC chinese food is Shanghai Gardens on Conn Ave (between Albemarle St and the Van Ness Metro) It is small and family owned and always good! I grew up going there pretty much once a week and my parents still eat there all the time. Definitely give it a try! |
Anonymous
| Seven Seas in Rockville is by far the best. |
Anonymous
The chef of Joe's is now at North China in Bethesda! A short trip (or Metro ride) from DC. OP, any dishes in particular you're craving? As I'm sure you know, Chinese food is really diverse. Mei Wah, Shanghai Village and City Lights will be fairly similar, while A&J is casual Chinese "diner food" (which the owners call "Northern Chinese Dim Sum") with completely different flavors and textures. If you go there, get a noodle dish, and make sure you choose "wide noodles"--which are handmade onsite. Joe's in Rockville has a Taiwanese-style menu, with some obligatory American-Chinese favorites thrown in. I would not go there in your shoes; it's very crowded and sometimes the lines can go out the door--not fun in this freezing weather. Oriental East is Hong Kong style dim sum and completely different (as in, unlikely to find a menu overlap) from A&J, which also bills itself as dim sum. My best guess is that Mei Wah, Shanghai Village, or North China will offer the best combination of menu breadth, onsite parking, a short-ish drive, |
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I agree with 13:38...
Seven Seas rocks in Rockville. I have eaten a lot of Chinese food along the Northeast Corridor, and it's up there with the best! That said, when I was a young intern in Dupont Circle (waaaay too many years ago), I loved City Lights of China. |
Anonymous
| City Lights has nose-dived in quality over the years. |
Anonymous
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Two options for Szechuan in DC
Sichuan Pavilion on K St. Great Wall Szechuan on 14th St. |
Anonymous
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It's great that you can eat the chinese food. I could not even go into a chinese restaurant while I was pregnant due to the smells.
Just watch out for potential foodborne illnesses caused by dirty restaurants. If you can, read the restaurant's inspection reports before diving into the next moo goo gai pan. I think VA and MD has inpection reports on-line. But in D.C., the inspection records are only made available upon request, and the wait can be long. Also, watch out for family-run restaurants since there's less monitoring going-on. |
Anonymous
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I am interested to read about the chef from Joe's moving to North China. How recent was that?
I grew up in Bethesda and North China was THE restaurant to go to...lines out the door, all the time. That has clearly changed in the last 20 years. I have ordered food from North China a couple of times over the past few years and it tasted average, at best. Should I try again? |