Author：Jocelyn Chen
Quality restaurant in the mall
Once Business Tycoon, Now Restaurant Tyro
Beiping, a veteran entrepreneur engaged in clothing designing for more than one decade, used to boast over 200 clothing store chains in China at the peak. In 2016 he devoted himself to restaurants and established Oriental House. Though considering himself as a “green hand”, he has entertained unique tastes and pursued authentic flavors of Taizhou Cuisine. During all these years he has been thinking about the development of Oriental House.
Oriental House Anfu Road opened in 2016
Oriental House
Fancy napkin
Authentic flavor of Taizhou Cuisine
Beiping made a forthright comment that Zhangyong has formed his own views of Taizhou Cuisine, while he has not. He added: “But I have formed my own ideas and culinary perceptions, that is, cooking the freshest food with the most suitable methods. I have been shaped by Western Food in making new dishes, but of course, one common character of XINRONGJI and Oriental House is that we all pursue the authentic flavor of Taizhou Cuisine”.
Besides Boiled Lizard Fish, Oriental House also recommended several traditional dishes: Braised Sea Anemones with Sweet Potato Noodles, Sauteed Rice Cakes with Pomfret, Taizhou Fried Rice Noodles, Crispy Pork Intestine etc. Notably, the dish Sauteed Rice Cakes with Pomfret is billed as a classic dish in Taizhou, where hand-made rice cakes appear in every festival including ancestor worship.
Sauteed Rice Cakes with Pomfret
Pork Ears with Dried Small Shrimps
Sauteed Rice Cakes with Pomfret use dumpling-shaped handmade rice cakes in which soup has been thoroughly mixed. Diners could order this dish in the regular menu for less than two hundred CNY per person.
Pork Ears with Dried Small Shrimps is a special dish in Oriental House. Dice the marinated pork ears after they cool off. Deep-fried small shrimps with green onion，add diced kelp and pork ears and stir with olive oil. One bite you can taste crispy pork ears and sea shrimps in the mouth. It is really an exquisite appetizer to enjoy with wine.
Steamed Ribbon Fish with 5j Ham is another recommended dish. Fry the rice in the iron pan till it is stuck in the bottom, put diced 5j hams and boneless ribbon fish on the top, then braise them in open fires. For ingredients, stew preserved vegetables and pork chops as well as pork skin, then fry them with minced meat. Mix all together you will savor the flavor every mouthful.
Steamed Ribbon Fish with 5j Ham
Parboiled small squid with yuzu sauce
Boiled pacific white shrim
Steamed baby croaker with lard and Soy Sauce
Oriental House is also fastidious about rice- China Northeast Rice steamed only by mineral water. And no more than half an hour when finally offered to guests.
Off Menu,Unlimited Imagination
Oriental House dinner Off-menu
Appetizer:
Salted mud crab with caviar (per person)
Baguette topped with beltfish aspic
Parboiled small squid with yuzu sauce
Sous-vide Taizhou pork belly with water bamboo and shrimp roe soy sauce
Pork ear garnished with sun-dried shrimp
Sweet and sour grenadier anchovies (per person)
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Hot Dish:
Boiled pacific white shrimp with rice vinegar
Pomfret with Taizhou hand-made rice cake
Steamed small yellow croaker in Chinese pickle sauce (per person)
Braised sea anemone with sweet potato vermicelli (per person)
Fried leeks with broad beans
Steamed baby croaker with lard and Soy Sauce
Stir-fried garlic sprout with bamboo shoots
Deep Fried Braised Beef Short Ribs with red wine and soy sauce (per person)
Horsehead fish dried overnight
Mapo Tofu with shirako
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Rice :
5J Iberico ham and beltfish with rice (with cold brewed Osmanthus Longjing tea)
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Dessert:
Black sesame ice cream
Fond of authentic food, last year I visited Taizhou to savor local delicacies where I was surprised by XINRONGJI with its authentically flavoured dishes which, I believe, will amaze the world as well. Oriental House is distinctive contrast to others restaurants. Small restaurants has its own way to survive. Combining his own understanding of food with traveling experiences in other countries, Beiping offers what both diners and chefs love.
Two restaurants of Oriental House are currently located in Jing An Kerry Center and Grand Gateway in Xuhui District respectively. The third store just landed this May in 96 Square, Pudong District. Beiping is very optimistic about this new restaurant in Pudong hoping that it will attract neighboring diners.
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