New Taste of Asia serves northern Chinese food from Xian and Beijing. Many are dishes most Americans have never heard of, like yangrao paomao, which is lamb soup with noodles, lamb and pieces of a thick, homemade flat bread which you tear up and put in the bowl before they add steaming broth. It tastes like the essence of lamb and should be a famous dish. They serve such northern Chinese basics like shredded potatoes in garlic - Mao's favorite dish - a plate of potato slivers that must be blanched but remain firm with a light sauce and "chinese hamburger, which is five spice beef on a roll with cilantro. Their ma pa tofu is sublime and authentic, covered in real ground szechuan peppers.They even make the fried dough that kids in China live on.
A dish like Kung Pao Chicken tastes nothing like the fatty, mild dish you normally find.
They serve "normal" Chinese food as well. You may have to ask for the northern menu.
For dessert, try the Fire Exploded Apple - chunks of apple, dipped in a sugary batter, fried and served with a bowl of cold water. You dip the pieces until they harden like candy, with strands of sugar trailing and the insides hot.
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