Chiang's Gourmet

• Cuisine(s): Chinese
  Hours: Sun 10:30am-9:30pm, Mon-Thu 11:30am-9:30pm, Fri 11:30am-10:30pm, Sat 10:30am-10:30pm
  Price: $
• Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa
  Features: Takeout, Delivery, Wheelchair Accessible
  Serving: Brunch, Dinner, Lunch
• Alcohol: Beer/Wine
  Reservations: Accepted
  Parking: Free, Lot Available

Description

This warm, lively Maple Leaf restaurant offers two menus: Chinese-American and traditional Taiwanese-Sichuan. From the latter, a light, flavorful jellyfish appetizer has a crunchy texture recalling Japanese seaweed salad. Chiang's also makes a splendid (and massive) seafood hot pot brimming with crab, mussels, whitefish, eel, button mushrooms, and Napa cabbage. One oddity to look out for: "tofu of strong odor," golden cubes of musky-smelling tofu served with a soy-garlic sauce that cuts the smell. The restaurant fills up at weekend brunch for Taiwanese dim sum (sweet soy milk, crullers wrapped in rice noodles, steamed humbow stuffed with greens).