Another Chinese restaurant in Sosua!

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Timotero

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But isn’t there a picture of “Peking Duck” on their new sign outside?
(I assume you have to order the duck 24hrs in advance - just like gourmet chinese restaurants all over the world). ������
 
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GuillermoRamon

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Timotero said:
But isn’t there a picture of “Peking Duck” on their new sign outside?
(I assume you have to order the duck 24hrs in advance - just like gourmet chinese restaurants all over the world). ������
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Never been to a China town where there are already cooked ducks hanging in the window?
 
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jd426

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Irie said:
They are now open for business. It's definitely buffet style.
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You serve yourself ? open on the Customers side , with a sneeze guard and all that ?
holy smokes
what a potential MESS
are you sure ?
 
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tee

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Would be good to find out if they have a menu too or if it just another buffet style like the other two. If it is , well, they are just dumb as there is such a demand for a Chinese such as the one in Cabarete
 
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chico bill

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Maybe the title of this thread should be "Another Chinese fast food joint".
I don't call fast food joints 'restaurants' - they deserve their own category
 
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Fulano2

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It's the MacDonalds, Dominos, pizzahut category. Every towns gets what it deserves maybe?
 
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tee

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I went in there yesterday to have a look....they have exactly the same as the other two Chinese places, thin slices of beef in a mushroom sauce, this slices of chicken in a bambu sauce, sweet and sour chicken, spring roll, vegetable noodles and rice. Pica Pollo, the smallest chicken fingers I have ever seen, French fries and platano tostones. There in nothing different to the other two places. My daughter wanted to try the chicken fingers. 100 pesos for 3 tiny chicken fingers and fries....the one just around the corner next to La Ceiba pizzeria has 4 very good sized chicken finger plus fries for 100 pesos, but I would say you get twice the amount of chicken from them. The one opposite the police charge 140 pesos for 4 chicken fingers and fries. Very disappointed that they did not decide to do something different and go for a restaurant with a menu. But then again, the Chinese only duplicate another business, look at the 3 Chinese stores in the center of Sosua, they all sell the same garbage. You go to Santiago there are a bunch of Chinese nail and salon suppliers in a row. About time the Chinese started thinking outside the box
 
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chico bill

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The Chinese almost never break the cheapie-cheapie mold. Seen one you've seen most all their businesses. 3 slop joints within the same block (more or less) - someone isn't going to do very well, most likely.
Prediction this won't be the last Pica Pollo in Sosua.
Too many Chinese looking to make a life outside their Communist controlled country.
 
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Polar Bear

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I have yet to find "Chinese food" in the DR that meet even my lowest standard for acceptable food. This includes Chinatown in SD, various places in Santiago, Cabarete and Sosua as well as an amazing array of other random offerings.


Now the Japanese place in Cabarete was decent, coinciding there were no Japanese or even Koreans present. Expensive, s l o w and with minimal traditional options but I'd eat there again, in a pinch.
 
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Commander Ooh La La, USN

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tee said:
I went in there yesterday to have a look....they have exactly the same as the other two Chinese places, thin slices of beef in a mushroom sauce, this slices of chicken in a bambu sauce, sweet and sour chicken, spring roll, vegetable noodles and rice. Pica Pollo, the smallest chicken fingers I have ever seen, French fries and platano tostones. There in nothing different to the other two places. My daughter wanted to try the chicken fingers. 100 pesos for 3 tiny chicken fingers and fries....the one just around the corner next to La Ceiba pizzeria has 4 very good sized chicken finger plus fries for 100 pesos, but I would say you get twice the amount of chicken from them. The one opposite the police charge 140 pesos for 4 chicken fingers and fries. Very disappointed that they did not decide to do something different and go for a restaurant with a menu. But then again, the Chinese only duplicate another business, look at the 3 Chinese stores in the center of Sosua, they all sell the same garbage. You go to Santiago there are a bunch of Chinese nail and salon suppliers in a row. About time the Chinese started thinking outside the box
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Not gonna happen. The Chinese arent innovators. They are copiers and counterfeiters. Chicken fingers and french fries is Chinese food? Somebody better tell Ore-Ida and Tyson Farms.

The Thermoquad Cowboy
 
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Commander Ooh La La, USN

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chico bill said:
The Chinese almost never break the cheapie-cheapie mold. Seen one you've seen most all their businesses. 3 slop joints within the same block (more or less) - someone isn't going to do very well, most likely.
Prediction this won't be the last Pica Pollo in Sosua.
Too many Chinese looking to make a life outside their Communist controlled country.
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3 slop joints in a row are usually owned Padrino. He has his family or business relations run them. At least one of them is a front for money laundering or tax shell to put their losses. In large cities one is also a front for prostitution or selling counterfeit or not commercially viable products from the homeland. Its like that Woody Allen movie where they start a cookie shop as a front to rob the bank next door.

The Thermoquad Cowboy
 
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JDJones

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chico bill said:
The Chinese almost never break the cheapie-cheapie mold. Seen one you've seen most all their businesses. 3 slop joints within the same block (more or less) - someone isn't going to do very well, most likely.
Prediction this won't be the last Pica Pollo in Sosua.
Too many Chinese looking to make a life outside their Communist controlled country.
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If you don't think the Chinese restaurants here aren't controlled, reconsider.

A Chinese citizen doesn't just decide one day "Hey, I think I'll go to the DR and open a restaurant". They are chosen and brought here and land owing a large debt to the group that brought them.

There's a reason why they all make the same food the same way no matter which one you go to. That's because they all answer to a higher authority, and buy their supplies from Chinese suppliers.

Have you ever noticed how the "owner" of these Chinese pica pollos is always there from dawn to dusk? It's not by choice.

I've heard these Pica Pollos referred to as the countries largest franchise chain more than once.
 
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Seamonkey

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Many negative comments in this thread about the new Chinese restaurant, but nobody said they actually ate there.

Well.....my wife and I went on Monday. It's way more than just the food you see in the buffet area. There are 2 menus. One menu which sits on top of the buffet table shows you the combinations that are available. There is also a sit-down menu with a whole other choice of food. This food is made fresh in the kitchen. It was really complicated to understand at first, because nobody explained it to us. We chose our food from the sit-down menu expecting it to come from the buffet. We sat there waiting and wondering what was going on. Then, out came these big plates of food. I had some type of sweet and sour chicken and a large order of noodles which were in a different plate. My wife had the small sautéed ribs with a large plate of steamed vegetables. We couldn't finish it and too the rest to go.

Food was excellent. Prices were very fair. Restaurant has a cafeteria feel and not very cozy. Looks like it will be a weekly place to go.
 
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