Chinese Eggplant
Buddakan Philadelphia

Buddakan Philadelphia

325 Chestnut StreetPA 19106, Philadelphia, United States

Asian • Pizza • Chicken • Bar-Lounge


"We were there celebrating two birthdays. Our server Faith was wonderful. She was attentive without being intrusive and knowledgeable about the menu. We were a table of 6 and ordered quite a bit of food, some of which was great and others lackluster. The bao buns were great and the small calamari salad was huge and those who had it said delicious. The spareribs were good as well as the edamame dumplings, although the way those were served made it hard to fully enjoy. Each dumpling should be on a individual type spoon so you can enjoy the soup part as well as the dumpling. The way they were served in one large bowl with only one spoon made it so the soup part is left at the bottom. I did request extra spoons from the expediter but they never came. The worst part of our appetizer course was somehow an item was switched to another in the computer and served to us. It had shellfish in it and that wasn’t known when someone at our table who doesn’t eat shellfish ate it. The sashimi was good but the tuna tartare thing was really bad. The entrees we had were the duck, which I was told was delicious, the miso cod, which was fishy, the whole fish which was tasteless, the lobster fried rice, which was okay but lacking flavor. The best dish was the black pepper beef, it was delicious and elegantly served. We had all the sides and all were quite good especially the eggplant and the wasabi mashed potatoes. It was a nice evening but it felt a little stale for a Starr restaurant."

Buddakan

Buddakan

325 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, 19106, United States Of America

Full • Asian • Chinese • Offers Delivery


"I always wanted to visit this restaurant in NYC but never had time. Bumped in to it in PHILLY and I made time and let me tell you I was not disappointed. As always joined by my wife we made the visit heads up make reservations this place gets packed and quick! Call them in faster and safer . We got in a couple minutes late due to parking restaurant offers valet but I found something on the streets. Walked in got greeted instantly and sat down pretty quick. Me wife and I had a corner seat next to the bar not to bad . Our waiter came through introduce him self and right away offer drinks and appetizers for starter I had the pork belly bao buns my wife had the chicken ginger dumplings. Both were very tasty bao buns were soft and pork belly was seared to perfection, dumplings were probably the best we’ve had in a while . For the main coarse I had the Barbecue Pork Tenderloin (chinese broccoli, giant panko onion rings) tenderloins were juices and tenders onion rings were crispy love my decision on choosing this dish my wife had the Crispy Calamari Salad sweet miso dressing and she loved it said that salad had the right amount of freshness and crunch. I also had a couple beers kirin light definitely was feeling kind of a light afternoon so no complaints here very refreshing. My wife had the non-alcoholic sunrise (passion fruit, peach, lemon, grenadine) she enjoyed that drink had the perfect freshness and tangy hit very good. Lastly dessert we usually share one dessert but since the meals were amazingly great I ordered two the dim sum donuts with three different dippings chocolate/cream cheese passion fruit strawberry donuts were super soft all dippings were good but the one that got me was the cream cheese our next dessert was the The Winding Road(chocolate cake, banana buttercream, caramel peanut) now that right there was truly amazing I’m a peanut butter feen this hit the spot the combination of the peanut caramel and banana cream was of the chain. This is literally my favorite spot starting today can’t wait for my next visit thanks staff for taking care of us so well and thanks chefs for giving us amazingly tasty food. Till next time KJ"

Ginger - MGM National Harbor

Ginger - MGM National Harbor

101 MGM National Ave National Harbor, MD 20745, Fort Washington, United States

Soup • Pizza • Asian • Hotels


"many hits and misses in the accommodation. when we arrive there, we find the elevators from the order because of some water pipe break. a freight service elevator for the whole place. coming into the lobby is even a chaos, construction is everywhere. When we finally got into the room, it was nice. bed, clean. we were told that we run the water for a few minutes, as it comes out of brown due to the tubes. we have taken the stairs down after we have taken off our bags and decided to spend some time in the taproom grill waiting for an evening meal. Guess he didn't have a job. I couldn't make it out. the bartender made a great drink and was great. had dinner in a walk, a nice restaurant, but nothing special. the casino was okay, but the minimum bets on Tuesday were ridiculous (from $50 to $100) the next morning we have a great breakfast in the baked store. the only thing I would consider as excellent was the personal, they are amazing, friendly and helpful. I felt so bad for all those workers who deal with these problems outside their control. best part, despite that no elevator, brown water and the tap-free taproom, these youngs calculated the full price without discount. they did not even dispense with the tourist tax. do not accept that the full room price or the tourist tax includes a functioning elevator. these young are something, they really need to put their act together on an important way for what they calculate."