The challenge: food hop around Buenos Aires’ Barrio Chino (China Town), visiting the best restaurants in Barrio Chino, to take the ultimate Chinese-inspired food tour. I attempted to visit as many restaurants as possible, to try all that Barrio Chino has to offered, determining which restaurants in China Town are worth visiting, and which are worth to skip the MSG packed plates.
First stop on the Barrio Chino food crawl was Hong Kong Style (Montañeses 2149) for some Dim Sum. Known as Tim Sum in Argentina, Hong Kong Style is one of the only restaurants in all of Argentina that offers dim sum on the menu.
It is difficult to find dim sum in Buenos Aires, and although a very limited selection, this is about the only place to find it. I went with my favorite dim sum expert and we ordered a few classics – pork shumai (bamboo bowl), tofu skin wrapped around pork and vegetables (left), pork spare ribs (back), and Jasmin tea.
Hello shrimp dumplings! I love you.
Continuing on the food tour Arribeños and check out Lai Lai (Arribeños 2168). One problem with this place is they have a minimum price per person which ruined our game plan as we were trying to hit as many restaurants as possible and share 1 or 2 dishes at each place…
I’ll never understand the Argentine version of spring rolls aka ground beef empanadas in a fried wonton wrapper. It’s served with a bright red cough syrup sweet and sour sauce that came with a side of bright red cough syrup sweet and sour sauce.
For the main dishes, a wide rice noodle with vegetables and sweet and sour pork. The wide rice noodle was incredible greasy. Immediately after receiving the cough syrup sauce for the spring rolls, we regretted our sweet and sour pork choice, worried that it would arrive drenched in the sickly sweet concoction – but luckily it turned out to taste more like the American version, packed with MSG in all its glory.
Too stuffed to keep going with the crawl, I miserably failed the mission and only knocked off two restaurants – I’m going to have to continue this crawl another time with better planning. Even though I wasn’t able to eat my way down Arribeños, I did buy some great produce and sauces at my favorite supermarkets.
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