Inland Empire Business Journal


La Fourchette d'or Restaurant Review

Award Winning Chinese

New Peking
by Robert Bledsoe

Now, I've saved the best for last. Quite simply, New Peking in Ontario is hands-down the best Chinese restaurant anywhere in the area. A part of me wants to tell the world about the place, and another wants to keep this a secret for myself. For instance, I'm writing this column on Mother's Day, and I was able to make reservations just the day before for the busiest restaurant day of the year!

But this won't last long. New Peking is run by an award-winning master chef who whips out unconventional Chinese dishes like the Cam Phor and Tea Smoked Duck ($7.95). This platter features pieces of duck and some pastries with a dipping sauce. You're supposed to make little sandwiches and then dip them. It's like nothing you've ever had before.

The Peking Style Pork Chop ($4.95) is a plate with several pieces of pork cooked in an unusual barbecue-tasting sauce. The stir fried snow peas with water chestnuts ($4.95) are an excellent vegetable dish.

If you don't want to go wrong, make your selections from the house specialties list. These are the Chef Peter's top 15 dishes and all are served with daily soup, salad and rice. The General Chow Chicken ($8.95) has got to be the best Chinese chicken dish I have ever eaten. The Seafood Delight ($12.95) is just that.

The best, I told you, I would save for the last. It's the Crispy Prawn with Walnut ($9.95). This will probably be the finest shrimp dish you will ever eat in your life. I'm not kidding! Part of the allure of the dish -- and the whole restaurant for that matter -- is the huge portions they serve. You don't get just a few shrimp and a bunch of walnuts that will go uneaten.

Don't be intimidated, everything you've come to love in Chinese food is here; the sweet and sour pork ($3.95), Kung Pao Beef ($3.95), and the shrimp fried rice ($4.95).

I'd also like to inform you all that New Peking does catering. The master chef is an artist with his hands. You'll wet your pants when you see the incredible food carvings this guy can do. Remember that lady with potatoes that looked like ex-presidents? She ain't got nothin' on this guy. Imagine your soup bowl with a picturesque panorama of green hillsides and a message sprayed across the sky. Chef Peter can do it. He's incredible.

I've already eaten at this restaurant three times since I first tried it. I'm addicted! Get away from me! Are you crazy?! I said go home and eat shake n' bake! This is all mine! Gimme the prawns or I'll wring your neck!

New Peking is located at 816 N. Euclid Avenue in Ontario. Call (909) 983-6939 for reservations, but I'm warning you ... if the prawns are all gone by the time I get there, I swear I'll kill somebody!

Robert Bledsoe is producer of the Inland Empire Television News' weekly "Restaurant Review" segment, airing Thursdays on KZKI-TV Channel 30 and on 72 cable systems in the region.

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