Dong Ting Chun

This is my first time trying Hunanese cuisine and it was a delicious experience. We ordered the mashed eggplant, pork intestine pot, gold medal stir fried beef, signatured steamed fish with noodles, and mao xue wang. I highly recommend getting the mashed eggplant as it has so much umami with the green pepper adding a bit of spicy and century egg for texture. It was a wonderful combination. It was a dish that everyone loved. The pork intestine tasted very clean and no gamy at all. Personally, I think the stir-fried beef had good flavor but it was sliced pretty thin so not quite worth the value. The mao xue wang had a mixed of various ingredients in the pot, such as tripe, spam, shrimp, and vegetables. I really like the tripe with crunchy texture. In addition to the eggplant, I also recommend the steamed fish as it was delicious and very filling. They gave us a huge bowl of noodles and it soaks up all the flavor in the sauce. When I was there, they only had two servers and they were busy. However, they were still good to check on us periodically and provide additional water. It is a great place to come with a group of friends or family to share different dishes.

This Dong Ting Chun in Edmonds located in a strip mall is spacious, comfy and relaxing. We arrived in the early evening just before the restaurant gets busy. We ordered quite a few dishes. Started with the slow cooked chicken and pork stomach soup, very tasty, layers of rich good flavor, with chinese herbs packed in this soup, but the down side was temperature was not hot enough, only luke warm. Then came the mashed eggplant with presereved egg, with garlic and mild spice, very inviting. The intestine / stinky tofu was mediocore, and the particular smell of the tofu wasn't profound and acceptable in taste. Beef chow-mein was delicious, very nicely executed with the aroma of wok cooking. Highlight of the evening was the steamed flounder with minced garlic and Hunan chilis, cooked just right, very tender and succulent, seasoned perfectly, lightly spicy and it's sauce was a good match, went very well with rice! As our dinner was in process, the large dining hall was gradually filling up and people were waiting to be seated. The entrance area became crowded.With adequate servers, the service was very courteous, attentive and on point. This meal was my first experience of Hunan cusine, known for it's spicy cooking method, but the business should adjust the degree of spice to accommodate the customers. I strongly recommend this restaurant.

There's a joke in the Asian food community that 3.5 stars is the best possible rating because the target audience typically doesn't use Yelp and the clientele that does is unable to appreciate the exotic flavor profile. That definitely applies here as the food here is far better than the ratings suggest. Just looking at the pictures, the food here passes the eye test and is crisply cooked and sharply flavored. The gold-medal stir fried pepper beef in particular was one of the best dishes I've ever tasted. It had a fragrant blend of fresh crunchy aromatics with thinly sliced meat that had good texture and light seasoning. They let the fresh vegetables and peppers do the talking here without too much salt, sauce or chili oil and it really feels like eating a home cooked dinner out in the Chinese countryside.The only potential problem I identified during my visit was a lack of flavor profile diversity. I ordered two items that should have been very different in taste and presentation (stir fried beef and mao's braised pork) but while the beef was spot on for what I expected it to be, the braised pork was 80% similar in taste and appearance to the beef dish. It had the same aromatic vegetables and peppers and a similar tasting light brown sauce. They seemed almost like the same dish with different protein substituted in, and while that's a shortcut I take all the time as a home cook, I expect a little better from a professional kitchen. The pork belly should be much more umami and a little sweeter by comparison but I found the aftertaste of both to be almost the exact same. This meant I was unable to palate cleanse or switch flavor profiles despite ordering two nominally different items. I'll have to come back a few more times to see if this cooking method uniformity extends to other dishes too. If you just want the best xiao chao rou in town (farmer's pepper pork) or the beef equivalent I got, this is an authentic human experience and a 6/5. The jury is still out on the rest of the menu because I haven't seen evidence they can dl anything different well yet, but they're off to a good start.

Returned here again and tried some new dishes this time than my standards. Overall, a great experience again! Tastes all around were really full of good flavor. My son and wife really liked the noodle dish. The spare ribs with black bean was a little bit on the salty side...so, it definitely goes good with rice. I really liked the mashed eggplant dish that you mash yourself...this too goes well with rice...I grew up with century old eggs so I love the taste but it may not be for everyone. Again, excellent!

100/100 hunan flavor! Fast and considerate service and with quite well-lit and spacious dining room! Recommended

They have family style Chinese restaurant menu. Wild pepper beef stir fry- was super super spicy. I assume they used serano pepper. They warned me that is spicy and oh boy it's like nuclear fire spicy. But at the same time it was very flavorful and delicious. Egg plant dish- is one of the must. It came out with century egg in pestle. You can eat it as or mash them a bit to mix. Either way, it is really good on top of riceFried rice - was alright. I didn't see this was special but still good. I would like to try out other dishes later like clay pot fish or intestine menus.

FOOD. Freaking delicious. We ordered the garlic achoy, crab fried rice and black bean spareribs and we ate EVERYTHING. No leftovers. All dishes were tasty. SERVICE. Quick, fast and pleasant. AMBIANCE. Clean, minimal, good for groups, not loud. We'll be back ... hopefully it'll be just as good.

Fast sitting down for sunday lunch at 1pm. Large portion, good price, yummy food. I like stir fried garlic cautiflower the most. Mapo tpfu was ok, not the best. Praised pork belly was bery soft and melting in your mouth.

We ordered DoorDash from here and noticed that the short ribs dish we saw all over Yelp wasn't on the menu, so we called and asked if it was on the DoorDash menu. The woman we talked to said the ribs weren't on the menu but we could order something that's the same price and she would make it for us! It was so nice for them to do that for us and those ribs were delicious! They were perfectly tender and seasoned. We also got the eggplant which was delicious and the pork belly. The pork belly had some drier meats and wasn't as good as I hoped, also the white rice that we got was probably a day old and pretty dry. Overall, I thought everything was pretty good and it's really good authentic Chinese food AND the customer service was amazing!

We ate at Dong Ting Chun because we had driven by the restaurant many times and wanted to learn more about it. Dong Ting Chun is a Hunanese Chinese restaurant serving very traditional Hunanese food. The restaurant is plain with tables and chairs and Chinese decoration. Many items are very spicy and strange to western tastes but very well done. We tried stir fried beef and mashed eggplant with green peppers and century eggs from the Hunanese section of the menu and tea smoked duck from the special items on the front of the menu. Our server spoke English well and was very helpful. She made suggestions on dishes to try. She showed us how to mash the eggplant and eggs. It was very good. The menu is not very informative but when we said we had never eaten Hunanese food, we were given a picture menu that was helpful. The food was good and the eggplant was excellent. The beef was spicy with lots of vegetables. The duck was well done and a wide mix of parts in addition to more commonly served pieces. Rice was extra ($1.50) and a pot of tea was ($5). We had pumpkin cake for desert and dinner was $88. We had lots of food and took home duck and beef for another meal. We had a pleasant and interesting meal and would like to try more of the dinner items with a larger group. The eggplant is good for a repeat for sure. Nearly all customers were Asian which is a good sign. We need to try more items as many things and cooking styles we have not tasted before.