Hand Made Noodles Shanghai Type, the must-order at Chiang’s Gourmand.
Inform me how busy Chiang’s Gourmand is, and I’ll let you know how arduous it’s raining.
I’m a year-round Chiang’s Gourmand fanatic; it’s such a staple of our household gatherings that once we joined pals at one of many massive spherical tables final summer season, my then-5-year-old requested whose birthday it was—and was mystified once we mentioned no person’s.
However come fall climate, these tables are tougher to come back by. The Chinese language restaurant within the root-beer-keg-shaped constructing on Lake Metropolis Manner is such a comforting staple that the tougher the well-known Seattle rain falls on any given day, the longer the road.
The three multipage menus can really feel overwhelming. I’ve about two dozen go-to dishes I rotate via after I order at Chiang’s: the Salt and Pepper Crispy Hen if there are children, the 5 Star Spicy Scorching if not. The scorching rice soup in winter, the chilled beef tendon appetizer in summer season.
There may be one dish that I nearly at all times order, irrespective of who or how many individuals I’m consuming with: House Made Pan Fried Noodles Shanghai Type. Thick, ropy, and darkish with sauce, they arrive intertwined with simply sufficient inexperienced vegetable to brighten the plate and skinny slices of pork twisted about till they’re nearly not possible to discern from the noodles.
It’s one of many solely dishes I don’t bear in mind how I began ordering. I’ve no reminiscence of the hostess recommending it, as she did the spicy sizzling fish fillet on romaine lettuce. Nor of a fellow Chiang’s fan suggesting it, which was how I discovered my option to the vegetarian candy and bitter ribs. I do bear in mind the primary time I came upon the enoki and black mushroom wrapped with bean curd sheet in brown sauce, a joyful accident of miscommunication. However in 18 years of usually consuming at Chiang’s, the noodles have merely at all times been there, providing their comforting consistency.
Particularly when it rains.
