Darda Seafood Restaurant - Milpitas - 4 stars

Visited on: Often

Type of cuisine:Chinese Islamic

Comments: Highly recommended

Ordered items:
Sesame bread
Lamb with Chinese Pickled Cabbage Soup
Lamb with Pickled Cabbage Warm Pot
Braised Lamb StewHouse bread in lamb soup
Beef / Lamb Home Made Chow Mein

General description:
This is an Islamic Chinese restaurant, meaning that no pork will be served here. So you can't go wrong if you order anything with lamb, they are all really, really good. The name "Seafood Restaurant" is somewhat misleading though, because you'd be sorely disappointed if you come here looking for fresh, jump-out-of-water seafood. Here, they are good at warm pots, braised dishes, noodles, and bread, all considered as staple dishes from Northern and Northeastern Chinese cuisine. Their pickled cabbage is particularly good, plentiful, sour, and crunchy. The soup version is just as good as the warm pot version. If you have the house bread in lamb soup, remember to tear up the bread into corn kernel sizes and immerse them inside the soup to eat. The homemade chow mein is also a misleading term. A direct translation would actually be knife-sliced noodles. This is how it is made: the chef will make a ball of dough, about the size of one and half palm length, then stand away from a huge pot of boiling water, holding the dough in his hand, and start to slice 3 inche long, 1/2 to 1 inch wide slices of dough into the water. As he slices, he'll turn the dough at the same time, so each noodle has a triangular shape to it, rather than flat pieces. This angle gives this type of noodles its special chewiness. Usually, the speed at which the chef does it is nothing short of acrobatic. Darda makes a very good dish out of the noodles, must be tried.

Basic information:
296 Barber CourtMilpitas, CA 95035Tel: (408) 433-5199 Mon-Thur 11:00 - 2:30, 5:00 - 9:30Fri-Sun 11:00 - 3:00, 4:30 - 9:30
www.dardaseafood.com
For price and menu items, please refer to the website.