Fried Pork Dumplings Fried Pork Dumplings

Savory pork-filled dough pockets, deep-fried to a golden crisp.

Bamboo House

Bamboo House

2185 Monroe Ave, Rochester, New York, USA, 14618, United States

Fish • Vegan • Noodles • Chinese


"We compared Bamboo House with Chen Garden and Bamboo House beats Chen hands down. The food is much better tasting, the ingredients are fresher and the servers are more personal and attentive at Bamboo. The hot soup in Bamboo is the best in Rochester. You also have fresh shrimp spring rolls for a dollar with your lunch order with soup... such a great deal! If you like hot chili oil, Bamboo 's homemade chili oil is the best we have experienced... it has a beautiful nutty / roasted taste and is very sharp! It's best to go with it. A must try appetizer is their hot and spicy chicken wings!! It has a unique honey glazed sauce... and spicy hot!! We ordered today the following dishes that were boiled skillfully: Crispy Chicken Chinese style was not overdoned, damp meat, crispy skin family style Tofu was just the right spicy hot, vegetables were skillfully stir fried (krispy) and tofu was perfectly deep fried, not overdone! Pan roasted dumplings fresh, tasty and homemade, not frozen, the diving sauce was tasteful and complements the dumplings perfectly (our second visit): Chow My canton style Subgum, Incredible! See our picture (our third visit): Tofu family style, Sesame Chicken lunch specialties with hot acid and egg drops of soup.. delicious! (fourth visit): fantastic food today! Phat Thai lunch special, Watercress w/ Garlic and Reserved Tofu, shrimp with cashew lunch specially made! (fifth visit): Ordnete Jumbo shrimp with snow pea pods lunch special and that was excellent. Our other lunch special was Jumbo Shrimps with Szechuan sauce was tasteless and sauce was watery again... they need to fix this great inconstancy between their different chefs. (6th visit): FANTASTIC! Order Subgum Cantonese Crispy (pan fried) Noodles that is definitely one of their signature dishes! Our server Fang was great, so great service. Oh, my! We ordered these two dishes: (1) Chen Dao Chicken, (2) Scallops with Hunan Sauce were both amazing! slightly crushed with tempura like dough, the sauce on both dishes perfectly complements the other ingredients (see photos) beef with broccoli, shrimp with broccoli, scallops with Hunan sauce (again) fantastic!! That's the hot soup. The Beef Chow Fun was made it had the 'wok hei'!! We ask for our beef with snow bowl, Hunan sauce instead and it was fantastic! Egg Drop and Hot Sour soups were tasteful! Moo Gai Pan delicious with delicate slices of white meat chicken! Thanks Bamboo House! Keep the big work Bamboo House!"

Flavors Of Asia

Flavors Of Asia

831 S Clinton Ave, Rochester, New York, USA, 14620, United States

Fish • Soup • Sushi • Asian


"This place should not be on Happy Cow. They are completely hostile to vegans. Though they have a vegan menu almost nothing on it is actually vegan. The tofu is fried in the same oil as chicken, making it not vegan. I mentioned this to the waitress, she dismissed our concern because she used to be a vegan and is now so over that, she had no patience for those of us still consumed by it apparently. So we ordered a fresh spring roll, which was actually good and tasted vegan. Nice Hoisin sauce.. But then we ordered a Tom Yum lemongrass soup. It tasted like fish sauce even though the waitress checked with the kitchen and they denied putting fish sauce in it. We also ordered two Chinese main dishes, tofu steamed because the fried was not vegan and vegetables, one with garlic sauce one with Szechuan sauce. Both of them tasted so much like meat. We asked the waitress about it, she talked to the kitchen and they denied cooking it with meat fat. Perhaps the wok was so coated with so much meat fat that they didn't even realize how much taste the cookware imparted. It was so disgusting. Inedible. The waitress wanted to assure us that eating tofu fried in a vat with chicken doesn't normally cause stomach problems for vegans. We mentioned that we are vegan for ethical reasons so no amount of chicken fat is ok with us. And the way she was denying that anything had any meat taste in it was a sort of gaslighting. At least they comped our uneaten meal. They could have charged us for the tea and the fresh spring rolls that were fine, but they didn't ask us to pay for those, so I do appreciate that."