With a sizable Cantonese community nearby, the aspiring Chinese restaurants of Wheaton must measure up to high standards. This laurel goes to the restaurant both for its regular dinner fare and for its fine dim sum, which is served seven days a week, on weekends from rolling carts. A Chinese banquet can be arranged for a group of eight or more at surprisingly low prices. However you approach it, the 200-item menu provides extraordinary opportunities for good dining. Whole fish continues to excel.
Casseroles are another good bet, including oysters with ginger and beef with eggplant.
Other winners are scallops with black-pepper sauce, baked salted chicken with a sauce of minced garlic and ginger, braised boneless Duck With Eight Treasures, and spinach or watercress with garlic. 2001 by Washington Magazine Inc.