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Even though New Green Bo is always jam-packed, with a line snaking out the door, I suspect that the farangness of the line should be telling. It's always a decent meal, but never as good as across the street at New Yeah.
Last night, the four types of dumplings were... good... fine... okay... But these are soup dumplings! These are supposed to be a warming, calming, nurturing. A substitute for a good hug. A cheap way to tolerate a winter's night. And to be perfectly honest, I didn't find any of that in these. Not a semblance of it. These were just dumplings.
The scallion pancake was greasy and didn't taste like much at all - maybe a little like cardboard dipped in peanut oil, truth be told. And the lo mein (?) that someone ordered, with baby corn, really wasn't worth the space it took up on the table. (I've come to believe that any dish with baby corn isn't worth the space on the table. I've nothing against the vegetable, but it reeks of middle-America Chinese.)
The only standouts were the Snow Pea Shoots, a late arrival at the table, but a nice garlicky, pungent, bold-green addition to the cardboard-generic-ness of the rest of the meal. And the dessert -- Sesame Rice Ball In Soup (pictured above) -- was everything it sounds like, and was absolutely divine.
Dishes to try next time (from window reviews):
- shrimp with seaweed
- tong po pork
- fried yellowfish with seaweed
- duck cooked three ways
- mock duck
- fried eel in ginger sauce
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