Northern Chinese Cuisine - Chowing with the Chief of Police

We had to put on our sanitary gear before entering the kitchen. I think it's a good look.

Eggplant steeped in garlic - lots and lots of garlic... sooooo good!

These are gelly sticks made from green bean covered with a sesame wasabi sauce - Amazing!


Rice noodles with sliced cabbage, sprouts, carrots and cucumber in a richer variation of the sesame wasabi sauce. Yum yum yum!


This was an interesting congee type soup made from golden millet and barley. They recommended adding sugar to it but it already had a subtly sweet flavor.


I like the dumplings here because they taste home-made. The dough isn't super thin or refined like Japanese gyoza so it has more of a chewy texture. And of course lots of garlic in the stuffing! These were the minced vegetable dumplings.

More dumplings. Mr. Hsin explained that for each dumpling you pop into your your mouth, you should immediately follow with a clove of garlic. I guess the cold weather in Northern China calls for lots of garlic. Its pretty yummy.


Beef soup with hand-made noodles. This is a very popular Northern Chinese soup and they slice the long noodles with a big knife. The broth has a very beefy Eastern European flavor and the noodles remind me of spaetzle.


Juicy beef cakes - yum! These have to be eaten hot off the grill to fully appreciate the crunchiness on the top of the cake and the chewiness on the bottom, but you start by poking a hole in it to let a bit of the juices run out before biting into it. Soooooo good!

Inside view. It's a dense cake so it's pretty filling but still hard to eat just one.


Mr. Hsin talks dumplings video\


Making a beef roll video\

This was a fun restaurant... especially hanging out with Police Commissioner Mr. Hsin and his entourage. He's a very boisterous lively man who is very proud of his country and loves food so he was the perfect host.