Word: shrimps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Heaped with brown rice, peas, scrambled eggs, pork, little shrimp, and--its only flaw--lettuce, the fried rice wasn't bad; it wasn't great, but it was fried rice...
Furthermore, another speaker said, copies of the current zoning ordinance were not available for several years. When the department finally published copies for the public, they cost $35 a copy. He noted that, at $10 a pound, the ordinance was "a slightly better bargain than shrimp...
Main dishes are consistently satisfying, with no mistaking among six but must order carefully. It is not apparent to the menu reader that Ta Chien chicken, scholar's dry-fried jumbo shrimp, and rose shrimp are all as similar as adjoining arms of Ta Chien's China...
...safe with any of the above and shrimp in hot black bean sauce ($8.95). The latter is a very generous portion (a dozen large-to-middling size shrimps) in a sauce made complex by the addition of fermented black beans. The beans are the basis of a rich sauce of their own in Cantonese cookery. Here their aromas blend with the Szechwan bouquet in a way that I find very novel. Perhaps this is the "continental cuisine" of Taipei, where Chef Hou won his epaulettes at a major hotel...
...four similar dishes, rose shrimp ($9.95) and scholar's chicken ($8.50) have the superior vegetable assortment. It's the Taiwan melange of broccoli, miniature canned ears of corn, water chestnuts, pea pods, straw mushrooms, and scallions. The shrimp (six this time) take the race with a hot version of the sauce...