Evergreen Chinese Restaurant

SoG Score: Food: B++ | Ambiance: B
Type: Chinese, Taiwanese
Address: 2424 Nicollet Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55404
Price: $

I didn't think it was possible to get authentic Taiwanese style home cooking and breakfast items in the twin cities until we tried Evergreen. The owner acts as your host, server, and cashier, while his wife makes classic home cooked meals in the kitchen. The decor (or lack of) is very basic, reminiscent of small family run restaurants in Taiwan. Visit for the authentic food not the decor. They also serve Let's Tea boba- we had taro tea with boba, boba was hard tea had good flavor but taro was made from powder.

We had delicious steamed and fried dumpling and spicy beef noodle soup 紅燒牛肉麵 with homemade noodles. We'll have to make it back on a weekend morning for the ultimate Taiwanese breakfast: sweet and salty soy milk with my favorite, fan twan 飯糰 (rice rolls) and the greasy but oh so yummy shao bing you tiao 燒餅油條 (crispy sticks of fried dough wrapped in a sesame biscuit). Oh I can't wait!

the good: serves up unexpectedly authentic Chinese and Taiwanese classics hard to come by in the twin cities
the not so good: lack of decor
Overall: recommended: grandma's kitchen Chinese cooking that won't dent the pocketbook