Peking Impression

I was hesitating to try this place when I saw a low 2.9 rating on google. But after reading all the reviews I decided to give it a try. I’m happy I did. I probably will give it a 4 but to balance out some of the very obvious hostile comments, I’m glad to rate it a 5.
We waited about 45-50 minutes cause the duck was freshly made, not reheated or fried. It was served the traditional way, skin was crispy and a generous portion which I really enjoyed. The only downside was the meat portion was a little small. We also ordered beef with enoki mushrooms and pork kidney. Both are very good. Hopefully they can keep up with the quality. The two waitresses were both very friendly and nice, we will be back.

I'm really surprised by the bad reviews. It made me hesitant to try it when seeing the bad reviews on Google but I saw someone posted about it on Instagram story and it looked good! The person thought it was good so I finally decided to try it! The skin was of the duck was crispy. They only have whole ducks for for sale so you can't get half but you can always take it home and put it in the toaster oven and it will still be good! That's what I did. It comes with duck soup and thin pancakes which I personally prefer over the baos. The string beans vegetable dish we ordered was pretty good too! I would definitely come back to try their shrimp dish that I saw other customers ordered and a friend recommended the salted egg tofu. The customer service was good - there was one waitress on a Monday and she even packed out food to go for us. I would say that they do try to upsell you (understandably so since it is a business and they want more sales especially if not enough customers to pay rent and keep their business afloat) but I mean all you have to say is no. Not necessary to give a restaurant one star because of that. I am big on quality and taste of the food!

We heard about them so we decided to try. Their tables were filled so they asked us to come back in 10 minutes. We left and came back and they had a table available for us. We ordered the whole duck and salted egg yolk tofu. The duck (crispy and flavorful) and duck soup (had clear noodles in there) were good. The tofu was surprisingly good. Some were hollow and missing the tofu. We will definitely come back to try their other dishes.

Food:
Foods are great. Many authentic northern Chinese dishes available there. The Peking Duck is their chef’s special and one of the best in Houston.

Service:
Service is the reason why I give 4 stars instead of 5. Overall OK but our waitress pushed us really hard to order more. Also she judged on our leftovers.