Review: Mama Chang knows best
By Tom Sietsema Tom Sietsema Food critic Email Bio Follow Food critic May 1 This review appears in The Washington Post’s 2019 Spring Dining Guide as No. 1 on a list of the year’s 10 best new restaurants.The latest from serial restaurateur Peter Chang seats more customers than any other dining room in his realm. Good thing, given that Mama Chang welcomed 1,000 diners a day the weekend it opened in Fairfax — and shows no signs of slowing down.
With the exception of Lisa Chang’s popular scallion bubble cake, the dishes at Mama Chang — chicken chow mein, shrimp with snow peas — will be new to the brand’s fans. Dry-fried cauliflower, for instance, is a spicy take on the popular dry-fried eggplant offered at the family’s other outposts — and even better, if you ask me. The takeaway: Women rock.Open: Dinner daily, lunch Friday through Sunday.Sound check: 74 decibels / Must speak with raised voice.6. St.
The anecdote is shared by their daughter to explain the couple’s latest establishment: Mama Chang in Fairfax, “a celebration of women in the family,” says Lydia Chang, chief of business development.How eager were some of us to taste the newcomer? Lydia says Mama Chang received about 1,000 guests a day on its opening weekend in March.
If there’s a better, more accessible Chinese experience in Northern Virginia right now, I have yet to make its acquaintance. Every plate I’ve tried tastes as if it were prepared just for its recipient, and the bonus is a wide-ranging, fairly priced wine list. Actually, another lure is the service. The waiters I have encountered know the menu as well as if they, too, had been raised on the cooking. When we order the roast duck, a server’s eyes light up.
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