Royal Palace Restaurant II

I was rather upset when the Chinatown eatery closed down a couple years ago (second level, in between beach street and harrison ave). Royal Palace was the first stall on the left upon entering. When I saw the sign, Royal Palace II, I got excited. I said to myself, can it be the same one? Oh yes!
It’s a tiny place (probaby can fit 10 people?) but the food do not disppoint you. the salt and pepper pork chop rice, satay beef chow fun and scrambled egg chow fun (oh hell yea, i love sauces on my noodles! Other places make them dry) are my top choices. Huge portions so I usually split with two other people. Want soup with your meal? You get to pick either the hot and sour soup (sometimes too salty in my opinion) or the herbal kind, for FREE. Yes, free… You can also get the soup to go too.
The owner is super nice. Last time I gave them catering business and he gave me a lot of options to choose from. He was generous enough to give me extra rice, soup and additional appetizer for free. My guests were happy.
Good and quick service, affordable prices, delicious food, what are you waiting for?
P. S. You can scoop your own spicy sauce! Fill them up.

A total dump of a place. I say this to warn off those who are easily freaked out by décor, etc. This isn’t where you go for in house dining. I’m guessing most of their business is delivery and they don’t give a crap if you eat there.
But the food is good/​cheap. The portion I got was huge (see photo).
Don’t go here with a group, family, friends or any party bigger than 2. That said, I wish it was down the street from me.

4.5 STARS for the spicy salted fried pork chop YUM some of the best fried pork chops i’ve had to date!
came for lunch & the ~$ 6 fried pork chop was served over a huge bed of white rice w/​some chinese brocolli. PLUS we got free soup (changes daily) & there’s free self serve tea in the water dispenser!
it’s definitely a HOLE IN THE WALL, so i’d understand if you preferred to take it TO-​go! (the portion was so big i would have to take some TO-​go regardless)

SO I FINALLY FIGURED OUT HOW THEY CAN POSSIBLY HAVE 300 menu items! I tired ordering the squid and the roast duck but they said they had NEITHER of them. Just chicken or beef. SO maybe half of the menu choices are just for show? Or perhaps I went on a bad day where their squid and duck mongers didn’t show up.
NEVERTHELESS, it doesn’t matter. as long as they still serve #231 (spicy salted fried pork chop,
), I’m not complaining.
Free self serve tea on right side of the counter and free soup if ya ask them!

Located in a somewhat obscure location near the New England Medical Center, this small Chinese take out place has an incredibly huge selection of inexpensive rice and noodle dishes. There is a hot tea dispenser if you do not want to pay extra for the drinks. The tea is really hot, as in hot enough to burn your tongue, so let it cool down a little before drinking. There is a $ 15 minimum if you want to pay by credit card.
One dish I ate was the # 203: Gon Chao Ngau Youk Ng Dong, which is the Dried Fried Beef with Bean Sprouts and Udon Noodles. It was pretty good although greasy. The beef strips were definitely the tastiest part of the dish. The portions were excellent and I was able to take some leftovers home. I only paid $ 6.15 in cash, and I got a good and hearty meal out if it.
Another dish that I ate was the #231: Ju Yim Gwat Fan, which is the Spicy Salted Pork Chop with rice. It also came with some Chinese vegetables, too, balancing out the meat in the dish. This makes it unique because sometimes other Chinese take out restaurants just give you the pork chop and the rice rather than adding the vegetables. The pork chop had plenty of a spiced kick to it, and I needed something to drink. It was also more meaty, not bony, and there were plenty of pieces that balanced out the rice. The pork chop was crispy on the outside, and tender on the inside. After eating, I was really full, and flickers of a food coma began to kick in, but I was able to get up and leave with no problems. I only paid $ 6.45 in cash, and I personally feel that I got my money’s worth. I had a really tasty dish that filled up my grumbling stomach.
A third dish that I ate was the #162: Sha Te Hoi Sin Chao Ho, the Satay Seafood on Chow Foon. Although the menu indicates that it is spicy, it was not. Rather, there was more of a saucy pineapple taste on the noodles. I have not had much authentic Satay sauce before, but I had a feeling that it was not authentic based on what I had read about Satay sauce on the Internet. Even though it wasn’t authentic, I enjoyed my lunch, and they gave me a lot of calamari, scallops, and small shrimp. The seafood overall was tasty, and when I carried the dish, it definitely weighed more than half a kilogram. I paid a total of $ 6.70 for the dish.
So far this is a pretty good choice for inexpensive Chinese take out. The portions should be good enough so that you can take leftovers home if you have somewhat of a lesser appetite or if you want to ration what you eat. Since I am going to be working near Chinatown, I am most likely going to come back here for a quick, simple and really tasty Chinese take out dish. I would not eat here every day though, unless I have a good exercise routine before or a few hours after.

Run-​of-​the-​mill Americanized Chinese cuisine… not much more to say. The handful of items I’ve had as catering for lunch meetings and study food were average, thankfully not excessively greasy or MSG-​laden.