Old Mandarin Islamic

Just came back from a Beijing style restaurant named “Old Mandarin Islamic” in Sunset. The food style is pretty much like the “real” food in Beijing, so if you want to try something real, that is definitely the place to go; also it is one of the top 100 Chinese restaurants in the States. The eating environment is much more like home than eating in Chinatown, because the staffs are from north of China (the Chinese people who speaks Mandarin not Cantonese) also a lot of the customers. Today is kinda cozy, so we ordered the Beijing style hot pot and two meals for today, and it costs us 130 including tips and taxes for four of us. Not that expansive I think.

As a feedback, you should really try their Beijing style hot pot; it tastes much better than other Chinese restaurants. I am not kidding, my friends and I totally four (all from China for sure) felt the same. If you don’t like hot pot, it’s fine in that place, because they also served a lot of delicious meals.

Do you think you can take your stomach up for a challenge and eat something hot enough and makes your tears drop? If you do, the “extremely hot pepper” is the one you must order. That dish have a funny name in Chinese, because the dish is actually called “la si ni” translate to English is “too hot that could kill you”. By looking all kind of chiles and chopped chicken makes in that dish makes you tears drop already, and can you hold that?

This restaurant is located at

3132 Vicente (at 42nd Ave.), if you have a large groups of people, don’t’ forget to call 564-3481 make a reservation first before you go if you don’t wanna wait in the waiting list.

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