Menu - Friendship Chinese

I love every iteration of Chinese food, I can get my eyes, hands and mouth on: American Chinese Hunan Cantonese Peking Szechuan Street Food Chinese Elegant Chin... read more I love every iteration of Chinese food, I can get my eyes, hands and mouth on: American Chinese Hunan Cantonese Peking Szechuan Street Food Chinese Elegant Chinese I love it all! Going to Friendship Chinese Restaurant last night was my turn at elegant Chinese food. The last time I went this route, by having highly cultivated and polished Chinese cuisine, was November 2021 at Capital Seafood in Beverly Hills. It was this very refined stylish food you eat with silver chop sticks (not wood chop sticks). The same feeling and menu was here at Friendship Chinese. Their menu was very short but sweet; not like a Dim Sim house that has 120 items on it. I really respect a restaurant with only 20 items (not 120 items), because that's telling me they do those 20 dishes very well. We only ordered three things for dinner as we were rushing to get down the street to a movie that was close to starting. Our: Orange Chicken was exploding with flavor and had a terrific crunchy texture The Jasmine Rice wasn't fried, but had this crispy consistency to it that we loved The Honey Glazed Shrimp was just flat out great We ended this rapid but delicious dinner with (their own) Chocolate Fortune Cookies, The people working there were kind, courteous and professional. The ambiance was very zen! It was very busy on this rainy night yet you could here a pin drop it was so quiet One thing caught my attention when we walked in: Thirty-Two silver statues of Buddha all the same all symmetrically lined up. I was duly impressed by everything at Friendship Chinese this night and will most certainly come back.

Friendship is not your every day Chinese cuisine. My son came in from NY and had a taste for Chinese food. Upon entering, you are welcomed by a host of Buddha f... read more Friendship is not your every day Chinese cuisine. My son came in from NY and had a taste for Chinese food. Upon entering, you are welcomed by a host of Buddha figurines. After getting our drinks, we started w Angry Long Beans Potstickers. Very tasty appetizers. For dinner, we ordered Star Anise Short Ribs, Phoenix Chicken Walnut Shrimp. We found each dish to have unique flavors different from other Asian restaurants. My son was quite impressed w the presentation and special touches for each dish. That says a lot for someone who dines at sophisticated New York eateries. We plan on coming back to sample other dishes when my son returns.