Ellie’s Restaurant is a Chinese Restaurant located in the Las Vegas Chinatown. This restaurant offers a menu of Chinese Style Breakfast dishes and also according to their website authentic Chinese Dishes(?).

It was very crowded when we arrived but we were lucky and got a table.

The tables are squished together without much room to walk across.

The chairs are uncomfortable and the chairs also stick out into the aisle.

Anyways-

I get some hot tea.

It’s not filtered. Oh well.

We order an appetizer of salt and pepper pumpkin.

And for our main dishes we order chicken with kung pao sauce and Szechuan beef.

The first plate to arrive was the chicken in kung pao sauce.

This is good. The chicken is tender and the sauce is spicy but not too spicy. It’s just missing the peanuts. Shouldn’t kung pao have peanuts? I read that authentic kung pao should have Szechuan peppers in addition to chili pepper. This is spicy (mild spicy…not real spicy) but I don’t get any Szechuan pepper here.

The next plate to arrive was the Szechuan Beef.

The beef is tender but this dish isn’t spicy at all. It tastes like beef in beef gravy with a small splash of soy sauce. (WOW is my husband disappointed)

The last dish to arrive was the salt and pepper pumpkin appetizer.

It’s not what I was expecting but it was very tasty and good. Like all the other plates it was also a large portion.

That was my trip to Ellie’s Restaurant. I do note that others I know had different experiences than what I had.

5740 Spring Mountain Road Las Vegas NV

702-452-3303

www.ElliesChineseRestaurant.com

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Cool Bar BBQ Fish is a very unique Chinese Restaurant in the Las Vegas Chinatown. They have a car in the dining room blocking a live fish tank.

To the left is an attractive bar without seating. The bar holds a collection of toy cars. They don’t serve mixed drinks here. They offer beer and wine and soft beverages. During the day 7am-3pm they offer a different menu that doesn’t have BBQ Fish. So it’s a cool bar with toy cars instead of bar drinks and the BBQ fish is only offered for dinner.

Anyways-

I tried a herbal Chinese Tea.

it’s kinda sweet and I’m not sure how it’s flavored…….

We shared what they call Chicken Soup Wontons.

The soup is very good and so are the chicken wontons. The soup has a nice gentle spicy finish too.

I really came here to try the Big Plate Chicken because it is one of the most amazing Chinese Dishes that I have ever tried anywhere and I saw it on the menu here. To me it’s like what a Chinese Thanksgiving could be like……….It’s a big chicken stew laced with star anise, bay leaves, ginger, garlic, cumin, Szechwan Peppercorns. It has flat chewy noodles, potatoes, bell peppers. One restaurant I went to put chestnuts in it. It’s always a very special dish. I was surprised when I got here because I didn’t know about the 7am-3pm menu and Big Plate Chicken was not on that menu. We did ask for the Big Plate Chicken and they were nice enough to make it for us.

This is not a stew here……

This has a sort of Chinese Take Out Type Taste to it.

It can pass as Orange Chicken.

It’s not bad but it doesn’t taste like Big Plate Chicken.

We shared Pumpkin Cake for dessert.

They were made fresh to order and came out straight out of the fryer. They are sweet with a tapioca type of chew.

That was my trip to Cool Bar BBQ Fish.

4350 Spring Mountain Rd Las Vegas NV

725-209-8999

I haven’t found a website for Cool Bar BBQ Fish

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