Posted: October 27, 2007
Despite the fact that I rarely went out for Chinese food in Berkeley, I soon discovered that the Chinese food crave is not so easy to get rid of. When I saw a few fliers around on campus advertising an “authentic” Chinese restaurant named Yuanxiang, I had my doubts, but decided to check it out in favor of the local fastfood Chinese place called “Chopstix” (a place to avoid just from the name itself). As soon as I turned the corner on the Best Western Hotel in Grand Anse, I felt like a tornado had come and swept a place up from China and landed it into Grenada.
Walking inside, I saw that all the workers were Chinese. This is always a good sign. Upon conversing, I realized furthermore that only the son understood English; the rest spoke Mandarin. While I unfortunately do not really understand Mandarin, conversations went easily using the son as a translator, and we were able to talk with them.
We ordered a wide range of foods, and lo and behold, just like good Chinese food, the food came out from the kitchen very quickly. We ordered the Pepper Beef, the Braised Chicken, the Dumplings, a Fish plate, some Sweet and Sour Pork, the Spicy Chicken (see right), some Stir Fried Vegetables (see right), and an order of Rice. The spicy chicken surprised me with the amount of peppers used in the dish, and I avoided them as much as possible. However, the chicken there was tasty. I was most impressed with the simple stir fried vegetables dish. It was definitely not local products and I soon learned that they grew their own vegetables behind the restaurant.
Upon leaving after a few hours of relaxing, I was most satisfied with the friendliness of the restaurant, the environment, and the quality of the food. I highly recommend this as the place to go for Chinese food in Grenada.
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