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2424 Nicollet Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55404

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  • Cantonese, Chinese, Taiwanese
    Sun-Mon, Wed-Sat 11am-9pm
    $
  • All Major Credit Cards
    Takeout, Vegetarian Friendly
    Dinner, Lunch
  • None
    Accepted, Recommended for Large Parties
    Lot Available, Street
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Vegetarian? Bored? Sick and tired of mock duck? Bolting awake in the middle of the night craving something, anything new--mock pork, maybe? Mock shrimp? Mock Chateaubriand? Well, we can't help you with that last one, but Evergreen Taiwanese is fascinating, novel, and serving things you won't find anywhere else in Minnesota, from mock mandarin beef to imitation satay squid. If you've felt that other Asian restaurants don't understand your vegetarian ethics and are constantly trying to slip fish sauce into your broth, please know that at Evergreen they really get vegetarianism. Just try to find a molecule of meat in your food--we dare you! Surgical theater-bright lighting will help you in your search, but will also illuminate the happy faces of nearby meat eaters, smacking their lips over the vital and lively bowls of lamb soup.







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  • 2012 | Best Chinese Restaurant

    You really have to love the kind of restaurant where the person who seats you is the same person who takes your order, cooks your food, and processes your credit card payment. Evergreen is one of many excellent Chinese restaurants along Eat Street, and even though the ambiance is a bit like a middle school cafeteria, the food has a certain magic. So many of the outstanding Chinese restaurants in the Twin Cities focus on Szechuan dishes -- great news if you can handle the fiery spice... More »

  • 2009 | Best Vegetarian-Friendly Restaurant

    Too often vegetarians find themselves restricted to just a few items on a restaurant's menu, forced to satiate their hunger with salads, French fries, or the entire contents of the bread basket. But at Eat Street's hidden, basement gem, Evergreen Chinese Restaurant, the world is a vegetarian's mock oyster. Nearly every single meat-based dish can be made with its ersatz equivalent: There are faux versions of beef with pea pods, moo shu pork, and sesame chicken--and several mock duck and... More »

  • 2008 | BEST CHINESE RESTAURANT

    At first, Evergreen might be mistaken for a Lutheran church basement, albeit one with Chinese zodiac placemats, plastic chopsticks, and handle-less teacups on the tables. But the humble, windowless digs don't detract from the experience--they just keep diners focused on the food. Taiwanese native Connie Fan serves up Chinese dishes you might expect alongside those you might not--under soups, you'll find the ubiquitous hot-and-sour along with one made from pork blood. Her husband,... More »

  • 2006 | BEST CHINESE RESTAURANT

    You've driven past it a thousand times; you'd be forgiven if you thought it was a flower shop. This unadorned restaurant, in a basement on Nicollet below the flower shop, is simply the best Chinese in the Twin Cities. The owners are a Taiwanese Buddhist couple (she cooks, he serves) who dish up Taiwanese specialties alongside Chinese standards. The 3-cup tofu is a heap of silken, garlicky bites in tangy, toasty jackets, and the Vietnamese lemongrass mock beef is a platter of chewy strips... More »

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  • Evergreen's Mock Lemongrass Beef: 100 Favorite Dishes

    Evergreen's Mock Lemongrass Beef: 100 Favorite Dishes

    By Rachel Hutton | Fri, April 16, 2010

    As a countdown to the Best of the Twin Cities 2010, coming this spring, The Hot Dish is serving up a hundred of our favorite local dishes. Send your own nominations to hotdish@citypages.com. No. 23: E... More »

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    citypagesbestof | Minneapolis, MN | 145 Reviews

    | Wed, May 6, 2009

    At first, Evergreen might be mistaken for a Lutheran church basement, albeit one with Chinese zodiac placemats, plastic chopsticks, and handle-less teacups on the tables. But the humble, windowless digs don't detract from the experience—they just keep diners focused on the food. Taiwanese native Connie Fan serves up Chinese dishes you might expect alongside those you might not—under soups, you'll find the ubiquitous hot-and-sour along with one made from pork blood. Her husband, Frank, runs the front of the house, and if it's not too busy (which it hardly ever is), he'll generously offer a sample of stewed pig's ear to a curious, uninitiated diner. While Connie Fan's tender steamed pork buns are sure tasty, her faux-meat dishes—a long list of imitation squid, shrimp, pork, and chicken—are what set her food apart. The wheat-gluten chunks cooked with sharp pickled cabbage are positively addictive. And as much as we like the Mandarin beef, a lemongrass mock version is perhaps even better.

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    bigwibble61 | Minneapolis, MN | 1 Reviews

    | Mon, March 16, 2009

    cheap, tasty,plantiful, full of vegan options

  • HeatherK
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    HeatherK | Minneapolis, MN | 88 Reviews

    | Tue, March 17, 2009

    This place has really great Chinese food. The only downside is they don't deliver.

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Main Menu
Hot Appetizers
$3.40
Cream Cheese Puffs (6)
invented by the native chinese of philadelphia during the qing dynasty. vegetarian
$3.20
Egg Rolls (2)
ye olde chinese restaurant mainstay, deep fried egg rolls filled with pork and vegetables.
$3.20
Vegetarian Rolls (2)
deep fried spring rolls filled with vegetables. vegan
$5.45
Fried Chicken Wings (8)
home-style southern cooking, chinese style.
$5.50
Mock Chicken Nuggets (6)
breaded mock chicken, fried and served with ketchup. did you know ketchup first came to europe from malaysia? vegetarian
Soups
Bowl $2.00
Cup $1.25
Seaweed And Tofu Soup
a traditional taiwanese soup of seaweed and tofu in a light broth.
$2.75
Meat Ball Soup
ground pork meat ball soup. eat this outside at midnight in one hundred degree heat for the authentic taiwanese night market experience.
$2.75
Fish Ball Soup
another taiwanese night market classic, this time with ground fish balls.
$2.75
Stewed Squid Soup
squid stewed with fish paste, bok choy, and bamboo in a thick broth
$2.75
Chinese Herb
a traditional chinese medicinal soup, made with medicinal herbs in pork broth.
Beef / Mock Beef
All Mock Beef Dishes Are $11.50.
$11.50
Sliced Beef With Tomatoes And Peppers
sliced beef cooked with tomatoes, green peppers, and onions.
$11.50
Beef With Snow Pea Pods
bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, and snow pea pods cooked with beef in brown sauce.
$11.50
Beef With Broccoli
beef and broccoli in brown sauce
$11.50
Mongolian Beef
beef stir fried with green onions.
$11.50
Szechuan Style Beef
beef with carrots and celery in szechuan sauce.
Pork / Mock Pork
All Mock Pork Dishes Are $11.50.
$10.75
Beijing Style Pork
shredded pork and green onions in a sweet soy paste sauce. this sauce is used in many northern chinese dishes.
$10.75
Moo Shu Pork
the chinese burrito. shredded pork with cabbage, carrots, mushrooms, eggs, and green onions. served with two pancakes. extra pancakes are $0.40 each.
$10.75
Sweet And Sour Pork
diced pork served in a sweet and sour sauce with carrot, onions, green peppers, and pineapple. the mock version uses battered pieces of mock pock.
$10.75
Pork In Garlic Sauce
pork with celery, green peppers, and mushrooms in garlic sauce.
Seafood / Mock Seafood
All Mock Seafood Dishes Are $11.50.
$12.50
Shrimp Or Scallops With Vegetables
shrimp or scallops with mixed vegetables in a white garlic sauce.
$12.50
Shrimp With Broccoli
shrimp with broccoli in a white garlic sauce.
$12.50
Happy Family
shrimp with water chestnuts, green peppers, mushrooms, and green onion in garlic sauce.
$12.50
Kung Pao Shrimp
shrimp with peanuts, green onions, and dried hot peppers in brown sauce.
$12.50
Satay Sauce Shrimp
shrimp with baby corn, bamboo shoots, carrots, mushrooms, snow pea pods, and green onions in chinese satay sauce.

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