Scouting Old Favorites: Food Fusion, Tenya, Tentekomai, Lotus
By Christopher St Cavish, Aug 26th, 2010 | In Nightlife
I have been dropping in on old favorites recently to see how they've kept up. With friends, all cost just under/over 100rmb. All make good food. Most hold up.
Food Fusion's Malaysian food is still the truth. They've added a few new dishes -- a squid dish that tastes like Westernized Chinese; a xiangla chicken that tastes like Tang -- but the staples haven't changed.
Lotus is the new incarnation of Chu. It's not just as good, but better. The new location is swish. There's lots of eye candy. They don't have the mala fries, but everything else survived the move, and there's plenty of new Hubei dishes to keep busy. Cooking's just as good. They don't even argue about turning on the air conditioning anymore. Try figuring out the puzzle of the "steamed smoked ribs."
Tentekomai is crowded as hell. Otherwise all this stands. Tip: Wuyi Lu.
Tenya, or Tian Jia, is the only one to waver. The original store is getting shabby. The Gubei shop is now gambling on low-end sushi. A conveyor-belt renovation was scrapped at the last minute, but a Gubei-only massive new menu of cheap (8rmb, 18rmb, 28rmb) sushi and sashimi wasn't. Tuna's the same. It's what they do well. The rest? Well.... it's not tuna. The 68rmb negi toro don -- chopped tuna, soy, and wasabi on rice -- is still good lunch.
Food Fusion's Malaysian food is still the truth. They've added a few new dishes -- a squid dish that tastes like Westernized Chinese; a xiangla chicken that tastes like Tang -- but the staples haven't changed.
Lotus is the new incarnation of Chu. It's not just as good, but better. The new location is swish. There's lots of eye candy. They don't have the mala fries, but everything else survived the move, and there's plenty of new Hubei dishes to keep busy. Cooking's just as good. They don't even argue about turning on the air conditioning anymore. Try figuring out the puzzle of the "steamed smoked ribs."
Tentekomai is crowded as hell. Otherwise all this stands. Tip: Wuyi Lu.
Tenya, or Tian Jia, is the only one to waver. The original store is getting shabby. The Gubei shop is now gambling on low-end sushi. A conveyor-belt renovation was scrapped at the last minute, but a Gubei-only massive new menu of cheap (8rmb, 18rmb, 28rmb) sushi and sashimi wasn't. Tuna's the same. It's what they do well. The rest? Well.... it's not tuna. The 68rmb negi toro don -- chopped tuna, soy, and wasabi on rice -- is still good lunch.
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