I'm posting on this
old thread because I didn't want to start a new one. I just have to tell you all that if you haven't been to Ed's in a while, the LTH influence has extended further than the sign in the window.
The menu now has a full page of color photos of "Chef Favorites" and at least half of them have been mentioned on this thread alone! Granted, it had been a while since I had seen the big menu (not the tri-fold take-out menus stuck on the table), but I do not recall the previous menu having made mention of any of these dishes as being "favorites" of any kind. I can only surmise that LTH-inspired visitors have requested the dishes so often that they (by default) became chef favorites!
I was there last Wednesday for a late lunch with my less adventurous parents and extremely adventurous husband, and everyone left exceedingly happy.
From the "favorites" menu we had:
potstickers (long cigar ones)
soup dumplings (yum! perfect temperature for popping into the mouth, or delicious when carfully opened and a bit of chili oil or potsticker sauce added)
steamed pork dumplings (essentially larger soup dumplings with no soup! won't bother with these again)
pork & scallion cake (oh my...we were in porky-oniony-hoisin-fried cake nirvana)
lamb with cumin (husband wouldn't share!)
We also had the
pork and green bean noodles. If you haven't tried these, you are missing out! The noodles were perfect, as if they had just been pulled in the kitchen, and perfectly flavored by the pork and fresh, stir fried beans. The dish was not at all spicy, so I will order then again when we bring our kids. And, I will bring my mom back for this dish and all of the above the next time she visits.
Ed was kind enough to whip up some "shrimp with pea pods in white sauce" (even though we didn't see it on the big menu) because that's the way my dad likes his Chinese food. I tasted that dish and it was good, if a bit bland for me. My adorable dad proclaimed it "delicious, definitely as good as the Pea Pods Shrimp at the Great Wall" (as in the restaurant in Rapid City, South Dakota, a high compliment from him).
Another nice thing that Ed did: I asked for two extra fortune cookies, to take home to the kids, and he came out with a small bag, probably 10-12 cookies inside. Needless to say, our 4-year-old was thrilled that his dessert that night was not one but THREE fortune cookies.
"Whatever you are, be a good one." -Abraham Lincoln