Robbie R.
Yelp
I was staying with a friend in Sacramento this last weekend and she invited me to a dinner with some of her relatives and friends. It was at Spicy Dragon ... just the name sounds spicy! This restaurant is located right next to the big 99 Ranch Asian store on Florin Rd. It's just off the 99, go west on Florin and you can't miss it.
My friend who's Chinese told me the dinner was gonna be more "authentic" meaning there wasn't gonna be any egg rolls or General's chicken. I did notice I was the only one at the table that didn't have black hair! Some of her friends as well as her don't really speak any Chinese cause they were born and raised here, so there was enough English spoken, I wasn't lost or anything. Service was fast and efficient, but not super friendly.
The menu dishes were all ordered in advance. The food just started coming out and placed on the round rotating thingy in the middle of the table. Soup was first and was served into bowls for each person. It was a veggie kinda soup, tasted decent. Next was mapo tofu. I had this one before. My friend said it's really called mapo "DAU'FU" in Chinese. Tofu is for Japanese food. Learn something new everyday!
Then there were some green veggies, roast duck, braised pork belly with those steamed white buns that look like lips .. well, to me they do! There were other dishes I don't know what they were, but I do remember there were some spicy fried wings, I did like those!
Mostly I like most of the dishes, one seemed a little weird, but I didn't have to resort to a fork at all! I'm glad I was invited and had a good time. I'd come back here, but I think I'd order stuff I was more familiar with.