Downtown Austin, Austin · restaurant
An upscale downtown Chinese restaurant where the dim sum brunch alone earns the reservation, with lobster dumplings, scallop caviar siu mai, and snow crab balls circulating steadily across the room. Dinner pushes further into indulgence. Szechuan peppercorn alligator, salt-and-pepper lobster tail, and half Peking duck all compete for attention. Before the truffle egg fried rice closes things out properly.
House fried rice elevated with truffle — the right way to close out the table.
Farm-raised alligator with numbing Szechuan heat; one of the boldest plates in Austin.
Soup-filled XLB assembled in-house; sip the broth before biting in.