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| Peek inside and this dish offers a variety of textures and tastes |
A small Chinese restaurant in Vancouver's Kerrisdale called Southern Delicacy has a noodle dish many customers like to order because the kitchen does it so well.
It's panfried crispy vermicelli, and either with fuzzy melon and shredded pork (CAD$22.95), or with bitter melon and beef in black bean sauce (CAD$23.95).
We ordered the latter today and I can confirm it's delicious. The table of two next to us ordered it too.
Admittedly the restaurant did not invent this dish, but it makes me wonder why it wasn't created earlier.
It arrives like a package, the crispy vermicelli on top, already cut like a pizza. Underneath is the stir-fried slices of bitter lemon and beef in black bean sauce.
Put them together and you have a crispy rice noodle that soaks up the sauce and that crunch -- it's not too oily and not jaw-breaking hard either, like some other crispy egg noodle dishes.
The play of textures, soft and crunchy from the noodles, combined with the taste of sweetness from the beef and bitterness from the bitter melon makes it a complex dish, well executed and tastes great.
Then you eat too much of it and have a food coma afterwards...
Southern Delicacy
6055 West Boulevard
Vancouver, BC
604 559 3939
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