{"id":118,"date":"2006-05-19T23:25:41","date_gmt":"2006-05-20T06:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennyw.com\/food\/118"},"modified":"2006-05-19T23:25:41","modified_gmt":"2006-05-20T06:25:41","slug":"shanghai-garden-seattle-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai Garden (Seattle, WA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rating: <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-images\/food\/kennyRating.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-images\/food\/kennyRating.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-images\/food\/kennyRatingHalf.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>There is a plethora of great Asian cuisine in Seattle. There are (almost) as many good Thai restaurants as there are Starbucks. When it comes to Chinese food though, it&#8217;s slim pickings in this city.  Fortunately there are a handful of standouts in this category, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanghai-garden.com\/\">Shanghai Garden<\/a> topping the list.<\/p>\n<p>My buddy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/\">Dan<\/a> set up shop for his new startup <a href=\"http:\/\/ontela.com\/\">Ontela<\/a> in Pioneer Square.  His office is in convenient proximity to the I-District. So when Lauren and I were invited to join him for dinner tonight, I had to propose Shanghai Garden.  We sampled three of my favorite dishes.<\/p>\n<p>First, a favorite of <a href=\"http:\/\/vidster.net\">Vidya<\/a>&#8216;s and Leslie&#8217;s: Eggplant and Hot Garlic Sauce (with pork), but without the pork so that it can be enjoyed by the vegetarians.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-images\/food\/shanghaiGardenEggplant.jpg\" class=\"thumbnail\" alt=\"Eggplant and Hot Garlic Sauce\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next up, a dish I often use to judge Chinese restaurants on my first visit: Chicken in Black Bean Sauce. Shanghai Garden has consistenly excelled on this one. No matter how sated you become, you will be tempted to squeeze in just &#8220;one more bite&#8221; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-images\/food\/shanghaiGardenBlackBean.jpg\" class=\"thumbnail\" alt=\"Chicken in Black Bean Sauce\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finally, a specialty of the house: Hand Shaven Barley Green Noodles with your choice of meat\/veggies. They are trumpeted as a &#8220;healthy&#8221; dish: if all &#8220;healthy&#8221; food tasted this good life would be easy. For those that get queasy when dealing with green food, they also have hand shaven &#8220;regular&#8221; noodles (which are more of a light gold, &#8220;normal noodle&#8221; color). You&#8217;d be missing out on a unique pleasure though!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-images\/food\/shanghaiGardenNoodles.jpg\" class=\"thumbnail\" alt=\"Hand Shaven Barley Green Noodles\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For those readers living on the Eastside, there is another Shanghai Garden branch in Issaquah.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanghai-garden.com\/\">Shanghai Garden<\/a><br \/>\n524 6th Ave South<br \/>\nSeattle, WA 98104<br \/>\n206-625-1688<\/p>\n<p>Mon-Th: 11:00AM-9:30PM<br \/>\nFri-Sat: 10:00AM-10:30PM<br \/>\nSun: 10:00AM-9:30PM<br \/>\n(Lunch and Dinner)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rating: There is a plethora of great Asian cuisine in Seattle. There are (almost) as many good Thai restaurants as there are Starbucks. When it comes to Chinese food though, it&#8217;s slim pickings in this city. Fortunately there are a handful of standouts in this category, with Shanghai Garden topping the list. My buddy Dan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}