Full Kee - DC

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Full Kee - Penn Quarter

509 H St., NW
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: 202-371-2233

Cuisines:
Chinese, Cantonese

Opening Hours:

Wheelchair Accessible:
No

Nearby Metro Stops:
Gallery Place-Chinatown

Price Range:
Inexpensive

Dress:
Informal

Noise Level:
Chatty

Reservations:
Not needed

Special Features:
Cash Only, Late Night, Kid Friendly

Website:
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Best Dishes
Hong Kong-style shrimp dumpling soup; jook; oyster casserole with ginger and scallions; clams with black bean sauce; stirfried snowpea leaves; stirfried chive blossoms with shrimp (not on the menu, but available on request); chicken-and-eggplant casserole; shrimp-stuffed tofu.

Reader's Rating:

1 out of 5

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June 2005

This fine Chinese restaurant was closed for remodeling, and when it reopened, its fans were delighted to find it as good as ever. Now another uncertainty looms: The restaurant has new owners. The first several months have seen no change in the quality of the cooking.

Some dishes at Full Kee are so good that it's hard to visit there without ordering them. One is the Hong Kong style shrimp-dumpling soup--thin wrappers packed with shrimp and floating in a bowl of rich broth. A bowl is plenty for a light meal, but it's also almost impossible not to order the oyster casserole with ginger and scallions. Other good dishes include clams in black-bean sauce, snow-pea leaves stir-fried with garlic, chicken-and-eggplant casserole, and tofu stuffed with shrimp.

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Decent food, worst service!

cab — March 26, 2011 10:24 PM

There are 2 menus here (not counting the specials on the wall). One for generic, other for HK-style noodles/rice. We tried the noodles and to be fair, the noodles were decent.

However, the service here was horrible. When we walked in, the staff More ...

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