New Golden Gate Restaurant in Chinatown

What you order really makes or breaks your dining experience at a restaurant. New Golden Gate certainly demonstrates this. We've been to New Golden Gate once before but weren't impressed with the food. I vaguely recall some roast chicken and sweet sour pork dishes (hey we didn't do the ordering).

We somehow ended up at New Golden Gate again on another friend's recommendation (a Chinatown insider!). Well actually we didn't realize it was the same restaurant till we were outside.

The restaurant has several tanks of shrimp and fish in the back and I even spied a scary Harry Potteresque serpent in one of them! OK I'm exaggerating and it was an eel not a serpent ... still scary though. Anyway we concluded that seafood is the way to go here.

We started off with a Geoduck. It was served in 2 dishes, one in sashimi form (known as mirugai in Japanese) and the other in soup form. I loved the sashimi. While it wasn't beautifully presented or cut, it was fresh sweet and crunchy. YUMMERS!



The other dishes we ordered were clams in black bean sauce, a beef and green bean dish (weird) and some garlic bok choy stir fry. The guys in the group liked the beef which they said was cooked on the outside but still tender and a little rare on the inside. I wasn't a big fan mostly because of the size of the beef chunks. A knife would have been helpful. Hey I thought Chinese food was supposed to be bite sized!



Chomp Meter:
3.5 Chomps. Overall a solidly good meal. A nice alternative to Peach Farm for seafood. I would love to try the shrimp on our next visit. They also have Chinese banquet style set menus (8 courses) that go up to $300! I wonder if anyone orders these? The restaurant seems to be quite popular and full of people (always a good sign) so go early if you don't want to wait.

New Golden Gate Restaurant
66 Beach St
(between Hudson St & Oxford St)
Boston, MA 02111
(617) 338-7721

A Chinese Restaurant next to Kam Man

It turns out that I am oblivious sometimes. We had dinner last weekend at a Chinese / Cantonese seafood restaurant and I don't even know its name. I need some help here. If you are facing Kam Man, this restaurant is on the right. (Not China Pearl)

The food was ok. I've been there 3 times now. I remember liking the sweet potato leafs fried with fermented tofu. I don't know the name since someone else did the ordering. I was just there to lend my appetite.

This time we had a clam dish which was I really enjoyed! I spied another table this dish and asked the waiter for the same thing.

It's called "Empress Clam" and is $5 a clam. A pretty good deal I must say! It has chopped up pieces of clam with some vermicelli at the bottom. Not sure if this is seasonal, but I highly recommend trying the clams if they're available :)



We walked to Kam Man after dinner. They have an awesome selection of Asian cookies and snacks. Hey I need to feed my Pocky addiction. Kam Man puts Super 88 to shame. Super 88's selection of products at the Allston locale has been really limited of late.

Peach Farm - My Favorite Chinatown Haunt

Took my dad to Peach Farm for Father's Day last weekend. Peach Farm is one of the better Cantonese style seafood restaurants in Chinatown. IMO it has the best Fuzhou fried rice (fuzhou chow fan) ever! I have to confess however that I haven't had this dish before Peach Farm hehe. And Fuzhou isn't in Canton. For the uninitiated, Fuzhou fried rice is not the usual fried rice. It is more like a casserole, egg fried rice topped with a seafood gravy of scallops, mushrooms and some green veggies. YUM

Fuzhou fried rice from a prior visit:


But I digress, we didn't get the Fuzhou fried rice this time. We went with garlic frog in claypot, sea conch, fish maw with corn soup, steamed fish, and a dou miao (veggie). (My dad is allergic to shellfish) All in all another enjoyable meal.

The fish maw soup. I love soups with corn!


Frog's leg casserole. It's really like chicken :P


Peach Farm
4 Tyler St
(between Beach St & Kneeland St)
Boston, MA 02111
(617) 482-1116



Chomp Meter:
This is a great place to go for a seafood meal. I love their steamed shrimp, they're so sweet. Almost like the ama ebi you get at sushi places. Oh and some trivia, according to Jasmine R on Yelp, Julia Child used to frequent Peach Farm.