Jade Asian Restaurant

Gabe and I decided to take it easy this month on the food spending, so we opted for dim sum in Flushing. After reading quite a bit about Jade Asian Restaurant, we went with that and were pleasantly surprised! I absolutely love Flushing for the low prices and high quality of food, and Jade Asian lived up to that. Perhaps the only difficult thing about dim sum is communication if you're not Chinese. The women pushing the carts at Jade Asian spoke/understood English better than others I've encountered at other places, but sometimes it was still difficult, especially when we didn't know what something was. Some photos:


Fish in Peppers: This was very oily, and I don't think this was fish in its most natural form. It was like borderline normal fish texture and fish balls. In any case, it was actually pretty good.


Shrimp wrapped in Fried Tofu: I really liked this one. The fried tofu was generously filled with shrimp. We were also given a soy-based sauce to dip it in which had a bit of sweetness to it.

After this, we got what we thought were going to be mini pork buns, but whatever was inside of the breading was yellow, sweet, and very good! I forgot to take a picture of this.


Beef wrapped in Rice Noodle: We also had the option of the more popular Shrimp wrapped in Rice Noodle, but since we just had shrimp in the previous dish, we opted for beef. It was equally good as the shrimp version that I always get at other dim sum places.


Fried Bread wrapped in Rice Noodle: The nice lady pushing the cart didn't really know what this was in English but could only tell us that it's good. Since it did look good, we went for it, and it turned out to be some kind of toasted or fried bread wrapped in rice noodle and topped with sesame seeds and a soy-based sauce. It was also served with oyster sauce on the side. Noodle-wrapped bread sounds weird, but this was actually really good. It seemed like a large portion compared to everything else.


Shumai: Not too much to say about this other than it was better than much of the Filipino-bought shumai I always ate growing up.

I think we both had room for more food but decided to stop since we didn't see too much else that we wanted. Since we got there around 2:30, I do wonder if there was more selection earlier in the day. There were things I had seen in other reviews that I wasn't encountering when we were there. In any case, we were pleasantly satisfied and full, but not full to the gills. Our bill only came out to $21.20 which seemed ridiculously cheap. If only Spanish tapas were that cheap.

Jade Asian Restaurant
136-28 39th Ave
Flushing, NY