House of Bowls

So my friends told me about House of Bowls. I don't hang out at Chinatown very often, so I'm always the last to know about any good or new places. The style is very close to Hong Kong's Cafe, where we call the Cha Chan Tang style. Where it literally means tea restaurant, where they serve some Chinese food and food with Western influence, like baked spaghetti.
Mom and I ordered the salty fish diced chicken fried rice. It sounds weird, but I'm sure you've heard horror story of people who go to Chinatown in either SF or NY for the first time, or go overseas the first time and see dead fish hanging all dried and ugly looking.

As gross as that picture had painted, they are quite good. The traditional way of it is the fish is cut into a very small pieces, so small that you don't realized it until you ate it. It is definitely salty which helps accentuate the flavors. The chicken is diced, to me, it's really just provided the protein for the dish.

At Bowls, I must say, they did it right; like how I like it. ^_^

The other dish we ordered is Shanghai style fried noodle. The difference is really in the noodle. You can easily order any type of noodle dishes, but Shanghai style use thick egg noodles for the dish. It has shredded meat and veggie in the mix. My only complain is that it was way oily than it has to be. Otherwise, it tasted good.

My other 'thing' about Bowls is that their drinks is not up-to-par to the Hong Kong style anything. For instance, the Ying Yang drink is a mix of coffee and milk tea, but it is more of one flavor than the other. Twice I've gotten the same drink and it came out bitter. So, the mix wasn't done well. Same w/ the Lemon Tea my mom got, they should've sweetened it already, but all we can taste was the tea it was brewed in. That was slightly disappointing.

House of Bowls
6650 Corporate Dr,
Houston, TX 77036
(713) 776-2288
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