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13 ARR: Jardin d’Asie

78 rue Baudricourt , Phone: 01 45 86 24 83

Reviewed by: Jeannew from PA, review #3479

When: 2010

Great place for people watching and sampling a large variety of Asian dishes.

Directions: Metro Tolbiac or Porte d’Ivry

We were guests here of a Parisian of 30 years who originally came from Vietnam. She brought us here for a Saturday buffet lunch, fortunately early because folks were lining up later to get into the place. We did not make reservations and I doubt that they take them for the buffet.

Four different soups were available for starters. The one I selected was similar to the Chinese hot and sour soup, quite good. Our friend enjoyed both of the Vietnamese seafood soups that were available. I’m not a sushi person, but she reported that what was served was excellent. I had various dumplings & egg rolls for appetizers while waiting to pounce on the next tray of spring rolls that came out. They were wonderfully fresh and I was sorry I didn’t take more. All sorts of meat and vegetable dishes were available for the main course. They were good but the meat and poultry were chopped up so that a lot of bone came with the meat. Various fruits and puddings were out for dessert. I had tapioca in coconut milk sprinkled with toasted sesame seeds, not visually appealing but delicious. Even better was the manoic root which one was to heat in the available microwave (I was coached by a buffet attendant) and douse with coconut cream. Then there was the assortment of self serve ice cream, the strawberry combining well with the chocolate mousse.

We sneaked a peak at the check, it was 33 euros for the three of us, a good deal for a huge variety of freshly prepared dishes.

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