Q-TEA restaurant in the 9th: Home-cooked Chinese.

 

Q-TEA restaurant, 19, rue Notre-Dame de Lorette in the 9th (Metro: ND de Lorette) is a place a Chinese/American woman who lives in Paris I know came across in her neighborhood and indicated that it had real "home" (that is from scratch) Chinese cooking.  I asked what area in China and she said all over.  Even though it seats only 14, 8 of us were able to sit at one table and share the food and wine (it's BYO).

 

 

While each dish takes about 20 minutes our hostess said, once they started appearing, they came in prompt succession and if I've got it right, we had a salad of bitter cucumber and some kind of sliced sweet pear, Shanghai spring rolls with bok choy, fish with slightly hot red pepper on cellophane noodles, a seafood, tofu and XO marmite, chicken croustillant (that I thought was the hit of the evening), turnips stuffed with shitakes, a whole fried bass (my #2), a mango/melon melange and a vanilla "milkshake."

Our bill for all this, with no wine or tea (self-supplied) and some white rice was 202.30 E for 8 persons, thus about 50 E per couple.

Go?  As long as this guy can stay in business here, yes.

  
 

Comments

[Laidback]

I hope you got together with Nancy and David, I have recommended you to them during a few conversations.

[Pacharee Sophie]

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I am currently living in NYC I will be in paris for 3 days 2 nights

I live for great food.. not good, great.. if you dont mind recommending the best restaurants in Paris for me I will truly appreciate that and I can assure you that if you ever travel to New York, I know the BEST places, guarantee! If you dont mind giving me

1. your top 10 places to eat in Paris by ranking.. places YOU love.

2. Best home cooking meal or say, more casual.. not so much about ambiance..not too pricey but hidden gems
3. Michelin star, 'The' experience for Paris dining. (L'ambroise, Julien, Lasserre, le grand vefour, le jules verne)
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5. Sweet tooth i have.. if you can recommend any great place for sweets

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p.s. No asian restaurants - Im from Asia and that should explain it.

[John Talbott]

I think if you read my essay of two weeks ago
http://johntalbottsparis.typepad.com/john_talbotts_paris/2010/08/the-perfect-french-________________-fill-in-the-blank.html#tp you'll get my latest thoughts.