Chez Ming

Bön restaurant chinois dont les spécialités authentiquement de la terre du milieu sont dignes de figurer dans le parcours du Français voulant s’initier avant un séjour là-​bas aux saveurs de ce pays.
Le poisson cuit dans l’huile pimentée shuizhouyu, est un des meilleurs que j’ai eu droit de manger: il y avait une parfaite combinaison de piment et de poivre du sichuan qui parfumait petit à petit le poisson et le tofu à l’intérieur. J’y retournerai pour sûr!

Best Chinese in Paris that we have had. Also probably the best Sichuan cuisine I have had anywhere. It really is excellent and was quite a surprise. If you are looking for American style Chinese DO NOT COME HERE as it is authentic and very spicy! Make sure to order the Sichuan chicken. Insanely good.

I live in Paris full time and Chinese restaurants are generally not very good, even in Chinatown. This is an excellent restaurant but it does not cater to tourists or those who only know Cantonese food. You can tell it’s good by the overwhelmingly Chinese clientele. Whether its Sichuan or other Chinese food, it is well prepared, pretty authentic and not expensive. If you like good Sichuan restaurants elsewhere, you will like this. If you don’t like adventurous food, don’t go here.

This restaurant is just two blocks away from where I live in Paris. I’ve walked by it plenty of times but honestly the décor inside kind of scared me off a little because it didnt look like what an «authentic» chinese restaurant would look like. We went in anyway for dinner one night when, yes, we didnt feel like eating french food. We were the only people in the restaurant at that time which was weird because it was like 8pm. Anyways, we ordered a variety of dishes which included a spicy eggplant casserole, a spicy fried chicken, chili stir fried pork slices, and a beef chow mein. All the dishes were really delicious. I didnt expect much but the portions were good and so were the prices. My favorite was definitely the eggplant dish because it was extremely flavorful and the eggplant was cooked just right. The other meat dishes were also really well flavored and they didnt skimp on the meat. I love spicy food so all the food here was right up my alley since they serve mostly «Szechuan» food which is known to be all chilis and spice.
Great experience, I really liked it. All the dishes ranged from 7 – 9 €. Would come back again!

While vacationing in Paris we started to tire of French food. *GASP!* Sacré bleu!
Our apartment was located on Rue de Montmorency near the Centre Georges Pompidou and around the corner was this Chinese restaurant that specialized in crawfish and Sichuan. We decided to check it out and should have known when we walked in that this place wasn’t very special. There wasn’t any customers. If anyone has been to Paris they would know that every café, bistro, wine bar or brasserie is jam packed full of people throughout the night.
This was definitely the least memorable meal we had while in Paris. So unforgettable that I can’t even remember what we ordered. I do remember liking the bottle of white wine we ordered though. It went well with the spicy food and helped cool my mouth down. The service was friendly and the prices affordable. Fortunately if you are in Paris and in this neighborhood you have a slew of very good dining options so just keep walking if you see this place.

Delicious Szechuan flavors, easy on the o-​ring /​/​Les saveurs sichuanes qui sortent doucement
[English version below]
Il y a une vague des restos sichuans qui arrivent sur le scèné de restauration chinoise à Paris et je suis surtout pour. Après tout, Paris a besoin de plus d’épices !
Reprenant l’espace d’une des milliers des brasseries de coin, Chez Ming propose des plats piquants de la région Sichuan de la Chine. Vous pouvez compter sur des plats plein d’ail, de chili et de piments sichuans — et tandis que les saveurs sont bien présentes, ils sont un peu plus adouci que chez mes restos préférés. C’est un peu décevant pour moi car je suis 100% masochiste par rapport les saveurs piquantes.
Mais Chez Ming se sauve avec leur spécialité: l’écrevisse. Disponible en tante qu’une marmite gigantesque (25 écrevisses pour une somme pas modeste de 39 €) ou un peu plus raisonnablement à la carte (10 pour 14 €, 25 pour 29 €). Avec ses écrevisses vous êtes servi des gants en plastique pour manipuler les petites crustacés sans salir vos mains, une expérience unique est un peu bizarre au même temps.
Autres plats plus typiques sont disponibles, comme un ma-​po tofu moyennement piquant ou des cacahuètes cuites pas-​du-​tout-​piquantes, et des «nouilles de tofu» (juilienne de tofu en sauce subtile).
Le service et la sélection de boissons sont typique pour un resto chinois parisien, et l’ordre de prix est carrément moyen.
Chez Ming né remplacera jamais ma rite habituelle de bruler mon trou de cul avec les brochettes d’agneau chez Iris (juste dans le coin) mais je reviendrais certainement pour les écrevisses.
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There seems to be a wave of Szechuan restaurants arriving on the Paris Chinese dining scene, and I’m all for it. After all, Paris could always use more spice!
Taking the place of one of many look-​alike corner brasseries, Chez Ming specializes in spicy dishes from China’s Szechuan region. You can expect items loaded with garlic, chilies and Szechuan peppers –and while the flavors are quite authentic and present, they’re a bit more muted than my favorite spots. That’s a bit disappointing for me, as I’m a full-​fledged masochist when it comes to hot flavors.
But the saving grace at Chez Ming is their specialty: Crawfish. Available as a giant hotpot ensemble (25 of the spiny bright red critters for a whopping € 39), or as a more reasonable à la carte (10 for about € 14, 25 for € 29). Along with the crawfish you’re given a set of plastic gloves so you can pop, twist, and suck your way through the little filter feeders without getting hot Szechuan seasoning and chili oil all over your fingers, an experience that’s a bit awkward but fun and unique at the same time.
Other, more typical dishes are available, like a medium-​hot ma-​po tofu and not-​hot-​at-​all boiled peanuts, as well as mildly spiced «tofu noodles» which are shredded firm tofu in a subtle sauce.
Service and drink selection are pretty typical for a Parisian Chinese joint, and prices are fairly average as well.
Chez Ming won’t ever take the place of the ritual ass burning I inflict upon myself with nearby Iris’ ridiculously hot lamb skewers, but I’ll be back repeatedly for the crawfish.