The cool thing about the Jackson Street Crawl is that no matter the quality of the food, the company is always excellent. This little byproduct of having fine friends that also like to eat was important this Friday at New Kowloon where the food was, well, unexceptional but the company? First rate.
We opted for New Kowloon for two reasons. First, they’re known for their Dim Sum. Second, we were a large group, seven this time, and we wanted a place with big tables. New Kowloon is huge, the word cavernous comes to mind. There are plenty of those big round tables that seat eight and a dance floor, and a disco ball. There’s a menu that matches the size of the place – it’s near impossible to decide what to eat. Though unfortunately, it turns out there’s not much on the menu you do want.
Exceptions to the primarily bland food on the table were the Chow Fun with BBq Pork, the Singapore Noodles, and the Squid in Black Bean Sauce. The rest of the food was just not that good. Don’t get me wrong, it’s wasn’t bad food, but with Sichuan Cuisine and Seven Star Peppers just up the street, there’s no excuse for a place to serve up second rate meals.
Word has it that New Kowloon makes fine dim sum, so I’m not going to knock it off the list entirely. I absolutely will not be going back there for dinner any time soon, but I’m willing to give it another try for the meal they’re known better for.
New Kowloon is at 900 Jackson. Dinner was 18$ each with beer. Not as cheap as Sichuan Cuisine and nowhere near as good.