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I have long been disappointed in the lack of good Chinese food in the Salt Lake Valley. There are a few passable places, like David's Kitchen, but either they have gone down hill or haven't kept up with the times and my last several visits have been very ho-hum.

But today...TODAY, I had the best Chinese food I've ever had. Better than anything I ever ate in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, etc. (although to be fair to those places, none of my friends ever wanted to eat the local food so I never had the chance to really experience what they had to offer). Hot Dynasty is absolutely amazing. Their menu has about 100 different dishes and the items we got were unbelievable.

I got the Two Kinds in Chili Sauce, with chicken and Beef, although they also offered frog, pork bungus, and something else that I'm forgetting. I was very spicy and saucy with amazingly deep and rich flavors.

My wife ordered the twice cooked pork. This was probably the most delicious thing I've eaten in my entire life. I'm not kidding.

My son wasn't feeling adventurous and got the beef lo mein. It was pretty solid beef lo mein. Not much to say.

We were there to shop at the Asian grocery store to get ingredients for home made pho so we passed on the hot pots, which seemed like the house specialty and what most of the Asian folks were eating.

Meanwhile, my pho broth is cooking now and I'm in a euphoric state smelling exactly what I expect from top-notch pho. I'm having one hell of an awesome day!
 
Safetydan said:
Prices?
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I got the Two Kinds in Chili Sauce and it was $15.95. The portion I got was ridiculous and I absolutely didn't expect so much. I ate my fill and it took two quart-sized containers to hold what was left, and I even had to eat another few bites so that it would fit in 2qts. With only one of the items it was 11.95 for beef or chicken, 12.95 for fish (that's the one I forgot) and 15.95 for frog. Not sure if the portion size with one item is less. Overall their prices are pretty good and from what I saw their portions are all family sized.

The asian grocery store there was really good, too. I've been to ocean mart and they are both decent, but China Town Market is a bit cleaner and nicer. Neither is a mind blowing Asian market, imho.
 
I just looked at their menu and the entire page that I ordered from is not there. Not sure what else might not be there, but they have even more than what you can see on their online menu.
edit: yeah, none of the hot pots are there either. That's a ton of their menu and a lot of what people were eating.

There's a boba shop next door you can order from while you eat.

P.S.

This place knows what spicy means. My item had two chili peppers next to it on the menu and it was basically a chili sauce soup without the soup. They put more than a teaspoon of dried chili pepper flakes on top under the fresh cilantro and it was packed with chili pepper paste. My wife ordered twice cooked pork and it has no chili peppers next to it but when it came out there were a lot of whole dried chili pods in the dish and she assumed it was what I ordered (it came out first). I didn't think it was what I ordered but after I tasted it I decided I didn't care if it even belonged to our table, I started putting it on my plate. I told both my wife and son that it was pretty spicy but that they absolutely had to at least taste it. Both of them agreed it was really good.

The pork lo mein was not spicy at all, so they are capable of not making food extra spicy. Just be sure to clarify spiciness with your waiter. I heard them asking how spicy people liked their food when they were making suggestions.
 
Gameface said:
I just looked at their menu and the entire page that I ordered from is not there. Not sure what else might not be there, but they have even more than what you can see on their online menu.
edit: yeah, none of the hot pots are there either. That's a ton of their menu and a lot of what people were eating.

There's a boba shop next door you can order from while you eat.
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My wife is now super excited to go there but she wanted me to ask you if they use msg in thier food
 
fishonjazz said:
My wife is now super excited to go there but she wanted me to ask you if they use msg in thier food
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I don't know but I really doubt it. Their food was really authentic, to me, and seemed like it was all from fresh ingredients and no short cuts.
 
Gameface said:
I don't know but I really doubt it. Their food was really authentic, to me, and seemed like it was all from fresh ingredients and no short cuts.
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Thanks.
We will be going there soon.
I want to get that twice cooked pork that your wife got!
 
fishonjazz said:
Thanks.
We will be going there soon.
I want to get that twice cooked pork that your wife got!
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Now I'm scared because I built it up so much. It is really, really good but hopefully you're not disappointed because I led you to expect too much.
 
fishonjazz said:
My wife is now super excited to go there but she wanted me to ask you if they use msg in thier food
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They probably do, but you can just tell her they don't as MSG is perfectly benign and opposition to it is mostly a trendy thing like the gluten free movement.
 
Siro said:
They probably do, but you can just tell her they don't as MSG is perfectly benign and opposition to it is mostly a trendy thing like the gluten free movement.
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I know quite a few people who swear that they react to ingesting MSG.
 
dalamon said:
I know quite a few people who swear that they react to ingesting MSG.
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Quite possible. Just like gluten intolerance is a real condition. But both are very rare according to scientific studies, and the sudden and explosive popularity of the trend is clearly a fad. A few ever bring up saturated fats and antioxidants anymore, even though they were huge pop-culture health trends a decade ago. Now the zeitgeist has moved to new things, and it will again before too long. That's all I'm saying.
 
If it's authentic Chinese, it most likely includes a healthy (not healthy?) amount of MSG.

It really seems like Utah has upped its delicious restaurant game while I've been gone. I wonder what kind of Korean options have popped up. It's just out of curiosity considering I can make anything I would want at home.


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Safetydan said:
If it's authentic Chinese, it most likely includes a healthy (not healthy?) amount of MSG.

It really seems like Utah has upped its delicious restaurant game while I've been gone. I wonder what kind of Korean options have popped up. It's just out of curiosity considering I can make anything I would want at home.


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Cup Bob. Delicious Korean food truck. Seriously, best Korean food I have had in merica. Maybe best Korean food I have had.
 
b_line said:
Cup Bob. Delicious Korean food truck. Seriously, best Korean food I have had in merica. Maybe best Korean food I have had.
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Turns out the guy that owns it is someone that I know. we called him crazy Kim. HE BAPTIZED LOTS OF CHILDREN.
 
The msg hate is overplayed. Tue reactions to msg are supposedly about as common as peanut allergies.

The reason people hate it so much actually stems from a little bit of racial history. Chinese restaurants were making great food in the sixties, and Americans were afraid of losing money, so they slandered the msg. Msg actually was discovered by a Japanese dude who basically dried out miso soup to make it. Its basically "miso salt"

When I was in Taiwan, we would have salt and pepper shakers, and msg shakers too. The stuff is delicious, and bad for you only in the same way that salt is bad for you.
 
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