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China Gourmet Chinese Restaurant

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The Scene

China Gourmet Chinese Restaurant is very clean and down to earth. The design is simple but effective. It is a self service restaurant so no tipping is required. Here is how it works: go inside, go to the counter to order, sit down and enjoy.

The Food

China Gourmet has a menu full of mouth-watering dishes. The food (especially the Taiwanese cuisine) is one of the best and the service is remarkable. They have my favorite, the famous Taiwanese Black Pepper Steak, which consists of noodles covered by a special sauce and on top, a piece of black pepper beef steak sizzling on a piece of iron/wood plate. It also contains vegetables and a sunny side up egg.

Delicious Black Pepper Steak

Heads Up

China gourmet is one of the best Taiwanese restaurant in the Houston Chinatown area. Since it is self service restaurant, you don't have to shell out any tips. The lunch special is about $3-$6, and you will be surprise by how much food is served. Also, try their black tea for only one dollar. It tastes refreshing.

Best of Chinatown Rating: 4.5

Customer Reviews:

-Review by Kevin M.

Excellent, home-cooked, Taiwanese food! Not your typical Americanized "Chinese" food. Having lived in Taiwan, I'm glad I've found a place with the authentic taste of my second home.

Best of Chinatown Rating: 5.0
(scale of 1-5, 5 being excellent)

-Review by Caroline

For my fellow stinky tofu enthusiasts: I think this is the only place left in town that serves Ma La Chou Chou Guo (Spicy Stinky Tofu Pot)! And it is oh so stinky! (The stinkier the better!)

Best of Chinatown Rating: 4.0
(scale of 1-5, 5 being excellent)

-Review by Steve

This was my first time to Chinatown and wow what a neat experience. I love the atmosphere of this place. After visiting this website, I ventured down to China Gourmet and tried their Black Pepper Steak and boy was I pleased. It tasted great and unique. The restaurant was just how it was described here and there were a lot of people on the weekend. I highly recommend this place and Chinatown in general. It is a very neat place and experience.

Best of Chinatown Rating: 4.0
(scale of 1-5, 5 being excellent)

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Customer Reviews:

-Review by PH

I have been going to China Gourmet (SI-FU-Lai) for almost 5 years. From the famous local snacks to the authentic full course meals, Si-Fu-Lai offers different variety of Taiwanese food. My favorite dish is the sizzling black pepper steak; this unique style cooking of steak was originally invented in Taiwan’s famous night market. For $5.75, you can have a plate of medium rare steak (about 8 to 10 oz), with the black pepper sauce poured on top. This plate also come with noodle or rice, one sunny side up egg, and baby corn or other vegetable. Si-Fu-Lai also provides sizzling fried chicken steak and pork chop, and they taste just as good. I also recommend the seafood toaster. This is very famous southern Taiwanese style chowder. The original name is called “mini-coffin” in Chinese, but now they have to rename it so customers would not be scared by the name. This creamy seafood chowder contains a lot of seafood and vegetable and soup is contained inside a fried toast box when ordered. Also one fried toast lid will be placed on top to close the fried toast box. Seafood toaster smells good and taste great with any dish you order. I recommend both dishes because the prices are fair and you can have either in less than 5 min after the order is placed.

Best of Chinatown Rating: 5.0
(scale of 1-5, 5 being excellent)

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