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Lobster sauce, Peking ravioli and fluffy rolls: What makes Boston Chinese food unique
By adamg on Sat, 02/20/2016 - 1:23pm
Lucky Peach surveys the oddities of Chinese food as it is served in the Boston area.
"I could not lobby Kowloon into opening a Kowloon in the south of Florida,” she says of the Saugus-based favorite that's peak Boston Chinese, though it wasn’t for lack of trying: "There are so many people who want that style of cooking."
H/t MC Slim JB.
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Dragon Chef
Is the BEST!!!
Saugus Wings
No mention of Saugus Wings at Kowloon in the article though... The ultimate in Boston style Chinese food.
My first thought was "Dragon Chef: you mean that
awful American-Chinese place in Coolidge Corner that closed probably 20 years ago?!"
Then I googled "Dragon Chef" and discovered there are a dozen restaurants by that name in Greater Boston. And yep, they all look like Boston American-Chinese joints: giant eggrolls and magenta spareribs as far as the eye can see, the kind of "Chinese" restaurant my grandfather would have found familiar.
The Chinese version of the [Fill-in-town-name] House of Pizza?
That describes the Roslindale Dragon Chef to a T, except it's a take-out place.
House of pizza often means
House of pizza often means "Greek style" pizza around this area.
The Brighton Dragon Chef wins
The Brighton Dragon Chef wins the [Fill-in-town-name] generic award. Ours is located on Washington Street.
I think of the Dragon Chef in
I think of the Dragon Chef in Brighton Center- which was the worst Chinese food I've ever had in the area until I visited Red House in Somerville
your grandfather
and an overwhelming majority of people in this country when they hear 'chinese food'
Forgot something?
I'm surprised that Crab Rangoons are not mentioned- I thought they were a regional thing too?
I grew up eating China Delight in Woburn and fondly remember the Panedosi rolls and red edged sliced pork. On special occasions (like good report cards) we would get to go to the Kowloon, where a dish of chilled canned pineapple cubes on toothpicks was delivered to the table with the check!