5.0 37 m2 or Trente-Sept m2, 68 rue Rodier in the 9th, 01.48.78.03.20, closed Sunday nights, Mondays and Tuesdays is a place that has intrigued me since it opened. Why? Supposedly themed as Taiwanese influences/French recipes (I'd say Taiwanese recipes with French influences), not too far away, open Sunday lunch and fascinating concept - plus a Chinese-American who lives in the 9th had been and promised to hold my hand when we ordered so I wouldn't get pummeled like I did at Les Delices de Shandong for extreme ignorance, bad ordering and generally culturally-unsophistocated reactions.
The Sunday lunch/brunch is more limited than the weekday evening carte but still has plenty of options.
But first we ordered the wine - you gotta love a place that has a Provence rose labeled Miss Vicky wine. But they had lots of other interesting-sounding drinks, cocktails and bubble teas.
We ate family Chinese style, starting with the margret de canard smoked in black tea and covered with prune dust (left), white raddish with chorizo and black mushroom cake (right) and pearls of sticky rice around pork morsels (ahead). Delicious; I thought we'd struck gold, but then................
....after too long a wait since there were all of 7 folks eating, we had tempura-like gambas battered with angel-hair (top rear): OK not great; fried chicken with salt and pepper (middle); too dry for me; and more rice pearls (bottom) which were the hit of the mains, zucchini stuffed with pork and 1 gamba with some tofu bits in soup which with three of us, made division impossible.
We had no desserts or coffee but did have one bottled water and a bubble tea (I think), a bottle of Miss Vicky and our bill for three was 93 E, thus 62 E a couple. Oh and one of my companions likes my mentioning the bread - so I'll add that she judged the rice, way ahead of your usual rice cooker stuff.
Go? If in the neighborhood and if there are more appetizer choices, go wild with them.
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