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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TAIWAN DELI reviewed in Las Vegas Weekly

Chinatown’s Taiwan Deli has tasty bites at ridiculously low prices

John Curtas

Wed, Oct 6, 2010 (8:05 p.m.)

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(Clockwise from top left) Taiwan Deli’s spicy salad, dry noodles with spicy peanut sauce, spicy beef noodles and dumplings

Photo: Beverly Poppe

When the tiny, obscure Champion Gourmet Chinese deli closed in April, you could almost hear the sighs coming from fans of its rich noodle soups and dumplings. Continue reading “TAIWAN DELI reviewed in Las Vegas Weekly”