A&J Restaurant (半亩园歺馆)

j17schis

I love A &J. I love A &J. I love A &J. Every time I go I order the dan dan noodles and fried chicken and rice. I always get the wide noodles because they are so chewy. For the fried chicken, I loove the pickled vegetables that come on the side. Some other favorites include the beef noodle soup, beef tripe, soy milk and you tiao combo (only on weekend mornings), and the braised pork over rice. They only accept venmo and cash, so be prepared.

Julia Cheung

While the hand made noodles are super chewy and have excellent texture and taste (make sure you order wide noodles and not the thin ones), the side dishes that we ordered were lacking. The pan fried dumplings were on the greasy side and stuck together and the filling was under seasoned. The Peking beef wrap was really disappointing. In other restaurants, I’ve had it with cucumber and scallion and scallion pancake. Here, it was filled with shredded carrot and cilantro (and the requisite beef) but just doesn’t hold a candle to beef wraps I’ve had in other Taiwanese restaurants. That said, for the area (DMV) This place is a good place to go to. I also find it overpriced for what you get but I’m spoiled as I do come from Vancouver Canada where they have the best Asian food ever. I do love however that they take venmo! Yay!

Tommy Tang

A super legit Chinese restaurant. Small family own, Szechwan style， so a lot of spicy food. Noodles but really good, prices are super reasonable but cash only. So be prepared if you wanna try! I recommend this place if you want to try real Szechwan food!

Kawaii Kittle

Authentic Chinese and a nice little place for a quick bite. It is small and there is limited parking so it's best to go during off peak hrs. We went at 11:30am on a Sat so it was busy. Around 12:30pm it died down a bit. The staff were super friendly and inviting despite me being SO out of place with my red hair. We will definitely go back 💕