Sandie's Gourmet

 

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Angie Q.

Portland, OR

A friend introduced me to this place about four years ago and this is the restaurant I choose whenever I'm craving Chinese food! The food here is typically Taiwanese style, which is delicious! I love the Pork Chop Rice. The green onion pancakes are good (though not great), beef noodle soup is yummy. They also have a spicy beef dish that smells great and I hear it tastes fantastic (I can't handle spice =( ). The waitress is oh so amusing as she is often this old lady in a backward facing baseball cap, and she jokes with me about my Chinese but non-Mandarin speaking friend.

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Mika Y.

Redmond, WA

This is one of my favorite authentic Chinese restaurant in Seattle.  A friend of mine introduced me to this place 2 years ago and it has become my favorite place to get an authentic Chinese food fix!

The Taiwanese style Pork Chop Rice, the spicy beef noodle soup, and the braised cold platter consist of tofu, seaweed, and eggs are oh-so-yummy.  I also tried the stir-fry silk cucumber last time I was there, which apparently is an authentic Taiwanese style veggie - delicious!  Need to go back soon...

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Wendy L.

Renton, WA

On our search for tasty Asian food delights, we came across this restaurant with great reviews.  We had a mission, to go to Seattle this weekend to quench our craving for a hot steaming Szechuan Noodle Bowl.  So we park, walk a block around the corner, see the red store front sign, and walk in.  We are soon seated and given tea, so everything is pretty status quo.  Then we're asked what we wanted, we order a Szechuan Noodle Bowl and a Green Onion Pancake, only to later receive a beef cheung fun and a green onion bun.  hhmmm...was there a slight miscommunication??  My husband stands up and walks up to the front which is busy with orders.  So I look around the room noticing that everything is dim sum, so I get up to call him back to sit down.  "I think we're in the wrong place."  Slightly embarrassed, we sit down and eat or order.  Our waitress was concerned and asked if something was wrong or if we wanted to order more food.  We decided to give this place a shot so we ordered the usual fare of dim sum:  Haw Gao and Sui Mi.  As we looked outside, we noticed that they were literally hanging up their grand opening sign for Duc Li's Dim Sum.  We finished our meal, paid and laughed as we left the restaurant on how we walked into Sandie's and left from Duc Li's.  The food was not what we expected, but it was decent for a small dim sum cafe.  I give it 5 stars for the whole experience.  

But we're still desperately in search for a good spicy beef noodle bowl.    :(

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John C.

San Francisco, CA

CLOSED. Sandy retired a few weeks ago.  The restaurant is now a dim sum place.  The people are friendly and I'll probably try it some day when I find myself in the ID. (06/26/08)

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Sandie's is our favorite place to go in Seattle.  Why? Niu rou mian.  It is the best I have ever had.  Okay, okay, the only I have ever had, but this beef noodle soup is exceptionally delicious.  I usually finish mine and then take what's left in my wife's bowl.

Sandie's doesn't have fancy decor.  It's a chinese noodle place.  It's exactly what you would you expect.  They do have that waving cat, a little buddha shrine, and Zhong Yi Da Ge Da on the flatscreen though, so its a comfortable place to duck in out of the Seattle mist.

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June N.

Seattle, WA

Apparently "Pork Chop Rice" is a very common meal in Taiwan.  I am so very pissed at all my Taiwanese acquaintances for not having introduced me to this earlier.  It is essentially a pork chop that has been breaded and deep fried....yes deep fried!  Served over rice and some kind of collard type greens that have been stir fried with what tastes like butter and maybe some kind of sauce that leaves the veggies tasting savory and nice.

Okay, so the food is a Dee-lite!  I mean, it's deep fried pork with what could be a light tempura batter.  The portion is large.  One has to wonder how those Taiwanese people stay so thin when from what I've been told they eat this on a daily basis.  If the words Pork and Fried have caught your attention, you owe it to yourself to give this dish a try.

Now on to the restaurant.  It's a hold in the wall.  Stark white painted interiors with a large plasma television prominently mounted on the wall that seems to play only Chinese soap operas from what I can tell.  I've yet to see it busy.  The owner or who I am assuming is the owner is a jolly Chinese woman who really speaks almost no English.  As she peppered me with a machine gun barrage of questions in Chinese (mandarin or cantonese, I don't know) she finally understood that I did not understand what she was saying.  Resorting to point and order, my food arrived quickly and it was good!  Sandie's menu can be a bit daunting with their less than perfect translations, but they facilitate the ordering process by having a page of recommended items.  Give them a try, it might not be for everyone, but if you are anything like me, I am drawn to the hole in the wall establishments.  Simple and tasty food will keep me going back again and again.

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