Wong's King Seafood Restaurant
Stop in at Wong's King Seafood for the wide variety of dim sum, plus other savory dishes. Enjoy dim sum options such as buns filled with barbecued pork, shrimp steamed in a flour skin and, on the more exotic side, chicken feet.
Live from the tank, seafood choices include dungeness crab, Maine lobster, clams, prawns, sea scallops, Pacific oysters and several kinds of cod. You can have your fish baked, steamed with wine and garlic, sauteed with scallions and ginger or, freshest of all, served as sashimi.
Wong's King Seafood Restaurant
8733 SE Division St. Suite 101
Portland, Oregon 97266
(503) 788-8883
wongsking.com
Sungari Pearl
If you equate Chinese food with MSG and overcooked vegetables, a visit to Sungari Pearl will change your mind. The restaurant places an emphasis on fresh local ingredients, using wild seafood, cage-free chicken, organic beef--- and no MSG.
Start your meal with an appetizer such as chicken and lotus seed salad, scallion pancakes or crispy scallops with honeyed walnuts. Also try a selection of vegetarian dishes featuring bean curd with black mushrooms, moo shoo vegetables or asparagus in crab-meat sauce.
Proceed to your choice of seafood such as crispy prawns with a spicy sauce, lobster with ginger and scallions or stir-fried scallops with black bean sauce. Poultry dishes include spicy sesame chicken, lemon chicken and Peking duck (with 24-hour notice). You can also order peppered pork, orange beef or spicy lamb with crepes.
Sungari Pearl
1105 NW Pearl St.
Portland, Oegon 97209
(971) 222-7327
sungaripearl.com
Beijing Hot Pot
Enjoy a fun, authentic meal in the tiny Beijing Hot Pot. You'll have a pot at your table with a burner under it, and you can have it filled with spicy or mild chicken broth. You order all kinds of delicious foods to cook in the boiling broth---think chicken, beef, pork and vegetables including mushrooms, spinach and napa cabbage. After cooking, dip your food in sesame or ginger-soy sauce and enjoy each bite.
Beijing Hot Pot
2768 SE 82nd Ave.
Portland, Oregon 97266
(503) 774-2525
beijingxiaoguan.com
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Barbara Dunlap is a freelance writer in Oregon. She was a garden editor at "The San Francisco Chronicle," and she currently specializes in travel and active lifestyle topics like golf and fitness. She received a master's degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia and has been a Knight Foundation Fellow.
