It was the perfect end to such a fun Chinatown tour.Boston’s best dim sum restaurants remain concentrated in the city’s historic urban Chinatown. In this case, its definitely not tea but oolong-infused vodka. I loved finishing up the tour with a “cold tea for two” which is a throwback to the days of an old (slightly illegal) after-hours Chinatown tradition where they would disguise pots of beer as tea. With an endless stream of kung fu movies on the tv, and hand painted murals of the events of the past year, this bar certainly has its own personality. Our next stop was not far at all: just downstairs! We walked down, exited the door, and went right in the next door to Shojo Boston, a a very small restaurant and bar downstairs from China Pearl. All of it was incredible! I loved seeing the carts buzzing around and realizing you could order off of any of them. The China Pearl is a big, flamboyant Chinese restaurant that aims to impress! We sampled tea, and 4 items of dim sum including veggie spring roll, shrimp dumpling, bbq pork steam bun, and another thing which I can’t remember now. Only chopsticks here! The soup dumplings were pretty much the most difficult thing to transfer and eat that I’ve experienced in my whole life, but I enjoyed the challenge. I should do that more often! The big circular table for 12 had a lazy susan in the middle that allowed all of us to serve ourselves from the dishes that came spinning around. While I have eaten General Gao’s so much in my lifetime, just about 100% of that was in a takeout form, so it was lovely to experience it in a freshly prepared, never-touched-styrofoam restaurant setting, which was the whole point of this tasting. We sampled soup dumplings (the traditional Chinese offering) and General Gao’s chicken (the Americanized dish). I love food tours because this is not a place that I would have normally thought to pop into, but I was so glad we did! It was lovely and the food was delicious. Tawian Cafeįirst stop was Taiwan Cafe on Oxford St. As promised, the tour delivered traditional Chinese cuisine paired with historically Americanized versions, along with modern fusion takes and everything in between. This 3 hour “ Chinatown Culture & Cuisine Tour” is an absolutely fascinating look into Boston’s Chinese heritage and how the Chinatown area came to be (including why exactly there are so many Chinese restaurants!). It’s a very short walk to the meeting point of the tour. Turns out, you can literally see the Chinatown arch from the entrance to the bus station, if you exit and look straight down Beach St. I found out about this tour through Instagram, and upon further research I realized it would be the absolute easiest tour for me to do, since I take the bus into South Station when I go to Boston. Recently I had the incredible pleasure of doing a close-to-home foodie day, which included this amazing Boston Chinatown food tour from Bites of Boston. Riverside Grille | New Boston NH Restaurant.
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