A while back I wrote about a surprising local Chinese joint with super tasty food and a big, cool, throw back restaurant atmosphere. Called Peking Gourmet Inn. Well recently I tried it for takeout and here’s the quick addendum from that angle.
The good – just like when I ate there in person, the chow was just as tasty. Simply better than most Chinese grub I’ve found in the smaller little outposts sprinkled around strip malls in the area. Which means that we’ll add Chinese to our takeout regimen for a meal that the whole crew (including our 3 picky princesses) will eat and that holds up well on the leftover front. We ordered pretty straightforward stuff which meant a very ample Sunday night meal for 5 for about $40. Good value, particularly given the leftover trail. For when we’re feeling a little more extravagant, Peking Duck is a specialty which we had when we went for dinner the first time and lived up to billing. I figured that was off the good-idea list for takeout but noticed a bunch of people taking it home in the take queue. Will definitely try that next time.
The mixed – From Del Ray it’s a little bit of a hoof (bout 15-20 minutes) to get there. And the place is very popular so was jammed when we got there, both in the dining rooms and at the take out counter operation. Which looks like a pretty efficient machine but we still had to hang out for 10 minutes or so waiting for all the pieces of our order to be put together.
Conclusion…. given the distance probably not as frequent a regular in our takeout rotation as a close place like Taqueria Poblano (where I think they’ve started to deliver our mail we go there so often) . But absolutely a strong new player for the occasional Sunday night when we’re up for a little drive and only really tasty Chinese with all the fun little kid elements (egg rolls, those crunchy things you drop into the Won ton soup, making your own little moo shoo pork burritos, fortune cookies, etc.) will do.
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Peking Gourmet Inn has always been one of the great “secrets” in the Northern Virginia landscape. George W. Bush was a huge fan and ate there regularly. Last Christmas we met a family who come every year from Silver Spring just to have the crispy beef (one of my favorites). And just last week on the Food Channel, it was visited by none other than Baltimore’s Ace of Cakes, Duff Goldman. Pricey but worth the effort.