Autour du Yangtse — Restaurant in Paris

Went for lunch with two friends who've been and liked the food enough to go again. Ordered house specials including the xiaolongbao, plus rice but after all the dishes were brought out we waited a good 10 min for our rice whilst looking at the slowly colling dishes... Then the waiters told us they ran out of rice and the new batch wasn't cooked enough! We were annoyed that we weren't informed earlier enough to either cancel our dishes or amend them to suit noodles based accompaniments. The dishes themselves were good but the experience was greatly soured by the poor service and we felt trapped by the establishment to eat the dishes without the rice. A kind gesture would have been to offered a discount, but they weren't clever enough to do that. For a Chinese restaurant to not have rice at peak lunch hour is shameful. Maybe this place ought to be called 'autour de la rivière jaune' where people eat more noodles...

I liked the open kitchen where the lady was making dumplings. It seems that the restaurant is owned and operated by an elderly couple, who were very nice.

We ordered various dishes. Among those, I liked the Yangzhou fried rice. The dumplings were not good; I just couldn't understand why they were sweet. The Sichuan spicy fried chicken was also not spicy, but sweet. We arrived one hour before closing time, so maybe they were tired and provided subpar dishes. At least, that’s what I...

Ordered pork soup (with bamboo and tofu skins) and rice to go. This was the best plain white rice at a Chinese restaurant ever, even in the best Chinese restaurants in the states, moist and sticky, almost as if they used sushi short/medium grain. The soup tasted great, good flavor as it was freshly made, downside is that it was so freshly made that the pork ribs did not have enough time to simmer. I would come back to try the other stuffs. Seems like a small business, family owned...