Pu Yue Ren Jia 浦月人家苏杭食府

Makes ordinary dishes extraordinary. Try the stir-fried green beans and noodles.

When a restaurant manages to make a mundane starter like cold cucumber and garlic (RMB 8) taste new and exciting, it's possible that it will exceed all your culinary expectations. Pu Yue Ren Jia managed to do just that. Even the stir-fried green beans (RMB 15) had more attitude and style than usual. The noodles—the house specialty—tasted delicious. They come in a set broth (RMB 15) with your sauce of choice. Choose the pork in brown sauce (RMB 15) and the eight treasures in spicy sauce (RMB 12), which includes tofu, shrimp, pork and cashews. Both are tasty but the pork is definately the saucy star. Pu Yue Ren Jia's floor and marble-topped tables are as shiny as a debutante's patent leather shoe and the waitstaff are primped and preened—partly because the restaurant is new but also because the management is great (and possibly obsessive-compulsive).

Sanyuanqiao 三元桥

6 Dongfang Donglu, Chaoyang District

朝阳区东方东路6号

Phone 8448 8800

Daily 9.30am-2pm 5pm-9.30pm

Parking available

Delivery available

No Smoking sections

Chinese bank cards accepted