Our Usual at BEIJING NOODLE #9

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The food at Beijing Noodle #9 is so delicate, polished, and hyper-delicious, it’s almost scary. Chef de Cuisine Li Yu and his cooks present Chinese food on a level most Americans are unfamiliar with —  taking classics like kung pao chicken, black pepper beef and soup dumplings and elevating them to an almost pristine level of refinement that you will not find outside of a formal Chinese banquet. (For the uninitiated, Chinese banquets represent the ne plus ultra of their cooking arts.)

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A TAIWAN DELI Breakfast

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ELV knows he’s supposed to start every day with a healthy and hearty breakfast, but ever since he was a mere sprout, he’s never been much up to the task. In his world, breakfast is good for only one thing: thinking about lunch. In this sense, he is quite European (or at least quite French, Italian or Spanish), as those eating cultures eschew, rather than chew, much food before the noon hour.

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