{"id":1936,"date":"2009-10-02T11:13:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T15:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brookegeery.com\/lunchonhawthorne\/?p=72"},"modified":"2009-10-02T11:13:13","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T15:13:13","slug":"fu-jin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/?p=1936","title":{"rendered":"Fu Jin"},"content":{"rendered":"\t

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3549 SE Hawthorne Blvd<\/p>\n

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Date of Visit: September 28, 2009<\/p>\n

Price for two (with tip): $20.50<\/p>\n

From the outside Fu Jin looks like it\u2019s either going to be amazingly seedy and gross, or amazingly seedy and good. But inside the dining room is basically like a really dressed-up cafeteria, and the food over all was decent, so it\u2019s actually much more boring than that.<\/p>\n

If there is one thing I can say for Chinese places, they do lunch right. The lunch menu included a $5.95 lunch special with your choice of soups, an entr\u00e9e and rice. If you\u2019re wondering how we managed to spend $21, we ordered a pot sticker appetizer, which was almost as expensive as the meals themselves. Oops.<\/p>\n

My meal didn\u2019t get off to a great start with the hot and sour soup. It was filled with egg (perhaps the egg drop soup is the exact same thing?) and tasted more like spicy chicken broth than any hot and sour soup I\u2019ve ever had. Things didn\u2019t improve when the veggie pot stickers arrived either. Neither of us really liked them, as they were too small and too greasy. Luckily for us, things turned around when the entrees came out. I got the beef with broccoli and with a little splash of soy sauce it was actually quite good. The beef was tender, the broccoli firm and the sauce had a little hint of spice. Jared got the sesame tofu, which was spicy (as noted) and he said, quite delicious.<\/p>\n

So overall, FuJin wasn\u2019t horrible, and didn\u2019t cause any immediate bathroom trips, but it just was. Definitely a good deal for a full meal, but not as good as near by Chopsticks (which we\u2019ll get back to eventually.)<\/p>\n

Veggie options: A whole section on the menu, and the waiter made sure to tell us the soup was made with meat broth<\/p>\n

Speed: Throw in the wok, fry. Food came quickly, but the server was busy talking and we were a bit neglected.<\/p>\n

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Archives 3549 SE Hawthorne Blvd Date of Visit: September 28, 2009 Price for two (with tip): $20.50 From the outside Fu Jin looks like it\u2019s either going to be amazingly seedy and gross, or amazingly seedy and good. But inside the dining room is basically like a really dressed-up cafeteria, and the food over all was decent, so it\u2019s actually much more boring than that. If there is one thing I can say for Chinese places, they do lunch right. The lunch menu included a $5.95 lunch special with your choice of soups, an entr\u00e9e and rice. If you\u2019re wondering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[804],"tags":[855,876,887,119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}