text: What is it a lime flavored beverage A Japanese poprock band A shade of wall paint by Glidden No Cool Jade is a Chinese restaurant in Edinburgh the last restaurant I would review during my vacation and the best Chinese restaurant I have ever visited there or anywhere The range of choices the quality of delivered dishes and the overall duecor cannot be praised enough In less than two hours we enjoyed a range of Asian dishes I would never seen in the many Westernized Chinese restaurants I have visited in my home town and I have been to them all Unfortunately without an online menu or even a website it is difficult for me to detail the specific dishes ordered at Cool Jade so I will have to go on memory and photosnnThe duecor is classy presented as a topnotch bistro rather than a brunchbuffet location where casual eaters shovel chow mein and chop suey via forks and ladlesized spoons into their distended stomachsnnyeah I admit having a tendency to offend those that support and promote westernized Chinese restaurants because I have been to China and tasted authenticity first hand I get asked often to recommend Chinese buffets but for me it is like requesting a favored Arbys locationthey are all the same and the quality can be graded on the same scale as your next bowel movement which in this case arrives fast and definitely furious Cool Jade is exactly what I have been wishing for since my trip to China so many years ago so manyokay it was six nThe initial plate was a collection of appetizers including crispy seaweed sesame cakes spare ribs egg rolls and deep fried dumplings all resting on a warming plate After that we were served up shredded duck with pancakes spicy beef and noodles There was no real entruee for each sitter just a collection of plates the both of us shared from as it should be and how it actually is in many cultures across the world The meal was fun and satisfying but it was the more authentic touches I appreciated like the plasticwrapped towelette or the fact that the chopsticks were plastic I hate plastic chopsticks but it is one thing I clearly remembered from China Wooden sticks are a luxury of the west given our amount of timber Or how about the carrot carved into the shape of a pagoda temple or the other one in the shape of a flowernYeah a pagoda temple that level of detail This attention is not often seen in Westernized Chinese nnI had been teased about Cool Jade for weeksabout how good it was superior to other restaurants like it Having experience in this field I know why because they do not compromise They do not pander to the tasteless cultureless masses Westernized Chinese food is for people without culinary curiositywho think that eating Chinese is them upsetting the normal order of hamburgers steaks and potato chips the staple daily diet Cool Jade is not selling to those people This is for people who when they leave their homes and eat out they want something special an event worth remembering It is what I want It is what I got a fantastic experience on my last day in Edinburgh nnOf course the meal still had to end with fortune cookies Some things never changenDid I mention there was a carrot carved into the shape of a pagodannDECOR nPLATING nSERVICE nFOOD nVALUE nnOVERALL out of