They have been around a long long time.. good world was there since I was a kid and I’m cough cough early 40s.
There is another in Blanchardstown “ming court” that’s lovely.
But the original one ( no longer there ) was the imperial just up from tower records behind Brown Thomas. The Asian community filled the place.
I don’t want a secret menu, I want a chicken curry half and half.
Pro tip: if you want to give the Chinese menu a try but you can’t read Chinese, your phone most likely has an app that can translate it to English via live text OCR translation. Google Translate on Android does it, and I’m sure Apple has some similar product. It’s not 100% perfect, but it should give you some general idea of what you’re ordering, at least.
His tiktok is great
It also works the other way. My Chinese friends were confused, because certain positions weren’t on the Chinese menu, but were in the English one.
So what your telling me is that 4 n 1s and spice bags aren’t traditional Chinese food?
Avoid the bat dishes.
A highlight of one restaurants breakfast menu used to be donuts that look like french bread* and what they translated into english as “Gruel”.
On packaged food you sometimes see “welcome to degustation” which is strictly ok but never strikes me as the best choice of phrase.
*sorry, no jam or custard.
If you ever get a chance to eat Zongzi made with pork, you will not regret it.
This happens in Galway too. Had a couple of Chinese lads over working with us and they would come in with unreal food for lunch.
They took the “secret” bit very seriously though, refused to tell us where they got it from
I’ve had arguements over this in a place in Parnell st. Some of their best dishes are on their Chinese menu, one day they suddenly claimed it didn’t exist. Stopped going there then. There’s plenty more restaurants on that strip
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They have been around a long long time.. good world was there since I was a kid and I’m cough cough early 40s.
There is another in Blanchardstown “ming court” that’s lovely.
But the original one ( no longer there ) was the imperial just up from tower records behind Brown Thomas. The Asian community filled the place.
I don’t want a secret menu, I want a chicken curry half and half.
Pro tip: if you want to give the Chinese menu a try but you can’t read Chinese, your phone most likely has an app that can translate it to English via live text OCR translation. Google Translate on Android does it, and I’m sure Apple has some similar product. It’s not 100% perfect, but it should give you some general idea of what you’re ordering, at least.
His tiktok is great
It also works the other way. My Chinese friends were confused, because certain positions weren’t on the Chinese menu, but were in the English one.
So what your telling me is that 4 n 1s and spice bags aren’t traditional Chinese food?
Avoid the bat dishes.
A highlight of one restaurants breakfast menu used to be donuts that look like french bread* and what they translated into english as “Gruel”.
On packaged food you sometimes see “welcome to degustation” which is strictly ok but never strikes me as the best choice of phrase.
*sorry, no jam or custard.
If you ever get a chance to eat Zongzi made with pork, you will not regret it.
This happens in Galway too. Had a couple of Chinese lads over working with us and they would come in with unreal food for lunch.
They took the “secret” bit very seriously though, refused to tell us where they got it from
I’ve had arguements over this in a place in Parnell st. Some of their best dishes are on their Chinese menu, one day they suddenly claimed it didn’t exist. Stopped going there then. There’s plenty more restaurants on that strip