TLT & Grill Soup

Authentic Chinese skewers!! I always order with cold noodle and the sweet and sour fried pork. The vinegary cold noodle soup, sweet and crunchy fried pork, and tangy skewers together create a heavenly combination.

Food: 5/5 Service: 2/5 The bbq grill there is awesome. You can basically order any types of skewers and you won't go wrong with your choices. It's a little bit pricey, for example, $2.5 for a small beef skewer. The warning is that 1) the restaurant is small so it filled up pretty quickly. 2) the skewers come out super slow. Beef and lamb skewers are quick but we waited 1 hr+ since we placed the order for the quail, tofu skin, etc. Even the appetizer took 45 min to be ready (!?). The fried pork tender (锅包肉) never came since we have to leave after spending 90 minutes at the restaurant, by that time, the fried pork tender was still not ready. I was shocked at how bad they managed the order preparation process as the wait time for the food is insane. It's definitely a waste of the chef's talent and ingredients if they can't find a way to improve the management.

We ordered some usual bbq skewers and tried one new dish - Guo bao rou (sweet sour double fried pork slice, I literally described it in English words) skewers are okay. But avoid this pork dish, way too hard to bite and chew, not crispy, just hard! They should remove this dish from the menu.

Good prices, good food. I personally recommend the lamb, beef (!!!), chicken skin, bacon wrapped mushrooms, intestines, and chicken gizzard if you aren't afraid of that. For their dishes, I love the sweet fried pork. It's so good when fresh, hot, and crispy. The service can get quite slow because they have so many takeout orders but I just love the beef skewers and sweet fried pork here.

Dined here on a workday night, we were the first customer. The food were very delicious and service was quick and good. Chicken skin and intestine were my favorites, they were both very crispy. The lamb and beef skewer were also very good. However the kidney was a little bit overcooked. Overall it was a great Chinese northern bbq place, would come again!