Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Koi chinese restaurant in Great Barrington

We generally avoid Chinese Restaurants (actually, all ethnic food except Italian) outside of NY and China. However, Scott and Jory had gone to this newly opened Hunan Restaurant and recommended it. Even then, it took a snow storm to get us there.

The restaurant is in a large, standalone building on Rt 23 entering Great Barrington. The interior is traditional Chinese restaurant, but in orange. It looks like they tried for red, but it faded. Chris gave the restrooms an A+, not easily done.
We started with Shrimp Soong (served in a lettuce cup) and steamed pork dumplings. The lettuce was good, the shrimp tasteless. The dumplings frozen and re-heated. The wrapper soggy and limp.

We followed that with Tangerine Beef which was pretty good with a niced sauce. But they used the hard, thin beef slices. I prefer the more tender beef slice at Shun Lee in NY. The Roast Pork Fried Rice was tasteless except for the oil. Even chili oil and mustard couldn't redeem it.

We had Tsing Tao beer that was cold and delicious.

Koi
300 State Road (Route 23)
Great Barrington, Mass
413-528-5678

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