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Asian Food That's More Than Meets The Eye

Choices galore are being cooked up in the Yummy Kitchen

From the outside Yummy Kitchen may look like the many other Asian takeout restaurants in our area. But if you take a look inside, you might be surprised at what you find. 

This past weekend my wife, son and I decided to stop by and give Yummy Kitchen a try. We were immediately surprised by the look of the place: everything neat and clean, with more seating than we thought. When you enter the restaurant one walks down a narrow path with booth seating on your left and table seating on your right until you get to the takeout counter. To the left is a sushi bar and then more seating all the way back to the front of the place. To the right is an aquarium with lobsters and fish.

The sushi chef came from behind his counter and took us to a booth and handed us two menus each. One is their regular menu, the other a daily special menu. This is where Yummy Kitchen sets itself apart from some other places. Their menu includes both Chinese and Japanese dishes at reasonable prices: truly the best of both worlds. They have all your favorite Chinese dishes, as well as a dim sum menu that they serve all day. The same goes for the Japanese selection including sushi, sashimi and rolls.

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It was our first time here so we were curious to see how their versions of our favorites stacked up. To start, we ordered some shumai from the dim sum section followed by orders of egg and scallion fried rice, chicken udon and General Tso's chicken.

After serving us some hot tea it wasn't long till they started to serve us our meal. First out was the huge plate of fried rice that my son couldn't keep his hands off of. Two more huge plates of food followed the rice.

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I tasted the rice first to make sure it wasn't too hot for my son. The first thing I noticed was a significantly less amount of oil than other fried rice dishes I have had. This made the flavor a little milder than usual but healthier. 

Next I dug into the General Tso's chicken. It was smothered in sauce, yet crispy with a spicy kick. Other restaurants have this dish marked down as spicy but it never is. Here they actually followed through... Bravo.

The chicken udon was prepared like chicken lo mein. However, this version was much more fun to eat because the udon noodles are so large. It was very tasty and my wife was thrilled to be able to get udon in a dish without soup.

Last I tried the shumai. I wanted to try them first but they were scalding hot and needed to cool. The dim sum portion consists of four golf ball size pieces stuffed with shrimp. They were exceptional. I wanted to order some more after our meal but realized my eyes were bigger than my stomach.

Even though we only ordered a few things, there was enough food left over for two more people. We happily took our leftovers home for another meal.

All in all, I would say that Yummy Kitchen piqued our curiosity enough to want to go back and try some other things on their menu. If you find yourself in a "what should I eat tonight?" conundrum, Yummy Kitchen may have the answer right on their menu.

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