Northeast Eating Club 东北吃饭公司 — Restaurant in Brookline

Ate here with some friends yesterday and the food was AMAZING. If you only read this part of the review, all you need to know is that I highly highly recommend this place.

FOOD: Crispy sweet and sour chicken: this was everyone's favorite of the night. Delicious, and the texture was so satisfying to bit into. This dish is a must-try if you're here for the first time! Rainbow mung bean noodle: flavorful QQ noodles with peanut/sesame sauce, super refreshing! My personal second favorite. Braised ribs: these were tender and the flavor was nuanced and light. It was a good offset to the chicken. Pork belly skewers: delicious!!

SERVICE: The menu was on an iPad and had pictures for almost all the dishes, which I super appreciated. Waiters were friendly and served us quickly, and the food came out quickly as well.

ATMOSPHERE: Ample seating, we were in a booth which was super nice because there was not a lot of ambient sound from other tables. Nice decor but really can I circle back to how good the food was!?! If you like Chinese food, you...

The Chinese food seem to have a flavor and quality that was above any Chinese restaurant that I have been to before. The people were very nice and the food was more than I expected. Portions were large, prices were reasonable. We had a bok choy and pork meatballs soup. This was out of this world I don't know what they called it but I loved it. And then we had some kind of noodles and I have sorry I can't remember but it had some vegetables in it. And then we also had the fried rice with vegetables. They made that excel too. There were only two of us and we could not eat it all. But we ate most of the pork meatball and bok choy soup and the noodles. Looking forward to going back again. I do think they should probably do just a little something more with tea though. Being in America we are used to getting Chinese tea. Everybody in the restaurant was Chinese and the music was beautiful...

Don’t trust the 5-star reviews.

Dishes are overly salty, spicy, and greasy.

Waiters/waitresses (as of June 2024) have very little knowledge of the dishes on their menu. They cannot even answer the question of whether their deep fried pork uses tapioca starch or corn starch.

When asked if the dishes are spicy, they answered no even when the dish literally has the Chinese word spicy on it. Worst part was they weren’t even being sarcastic.

Also, why is a bowl of rice $3? Are they using some kind of Michelin-inspired rice?

For a restaurant that serves bbq, there’s hardly any ventilation.

Why isn’t there any hot tea or water served when your main clientele are Chinese? Isn’t it at least a good idea to ask?

Restaurants like this bring shame to the Chinese community of America.

Thank the heavens Chinese food in...