Pak Choi is undoubtedly
a very authentic Chinese eatery. It is by no means the only Chinese restaurant
in Frankfurt though and thus has good competition for the title of ‘most
authentic’ or ‘best’. The scene ranges from slightly sketchy places at
Niddastraße where the menu is mostly in Chinese, over cheap but extremely good
places like the Sino-Malaysian restaurant at Münchener Straße, to the high-end
Chinese restaurant in the Westin Grand hotel. I tried most of those places and
had recently the pleasure of visiting Pak Choi as well.
There is not
much information to be found on Pak Choi in the internet. It is located – who would
have guessed – in the Bahnhofsviertel, in a side street off Münchener Straße.
Either it is only recently opened or it completely missed my sight so far, but
I now read about it in a food magazine where it made number 1 on the top list
of Chinese restaurants in Frankfurt. Of course, I wanted to get convinced of
that myself. Visiting on a random week day, we arrived at Pak Choi and it was
extremely busy. Luckily, we still got one of the last tables available. It was
absolutely packed with many different people – couples having a quick dinner, a
large loud group of Asians, some hipster Germans who probably read that
magazine article just as I did.
Despite it
being so busy and contrary to some experiences in some cheap Chinese eateries,
the service was very friendly. My wife ordered duck with vegetables and noodles
and I got some spicy, deep fried duck with vegetables. We were starving, but
the enormous portion that arrived then even scared me a bit. To receive such a
large amount of food for that money is fair – even a bit too much. But it was
not only a lot, it was also extremely good, very fatty, very heavy, but very
yummy therefore. I got plenty of duck pieces and they were nicely coated in crisp
breading. But the highlight was even the vegetables. Usually they are treated
as mere random sides and you do not receive great quality. But here they tasted
fresh and were not overcooked. Overall, it made a great impression and in the
end, it does not matter if it is very authentic or not, it just has very tasty
food.
Style: Casual
eatery/Dinner
Cuisine: Chinese
Location: Bahnhofsviertel
Website: http://www.restaurant-ding.de/
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