Description:
Chinatown's go-to place for fresh seafood is a subterranean hideaway with no decor to speak of. You won't be looking around much anyway -- the service is so fast that just saying "calamari" seems to make spicy dry-fried salted squid appear on your table. Gobble it up while it's hot, then turn to the delicious dishes that follow in lightning-quick order: messy clams with black-bean sauce, braised chicken hot pot, an emerald-green pile of stir-fried pea-pod stems. Spicy salt shrimp -- you can eat them whole, shells, heads, and all -- is only the most recent commendable dish I've tried here; my favorite is that same spicy salt preparation applied to meltingly tender scallops. Fair warning to the soft-hearted: Order the Cantonese classic fresh fish steamed with ginger and scallions, and the waiter brings the poor creature to your table thrashing in a plastic bucket; it reappears moments later, perfectly cooked. Peach Farm is virtually indistinguishable from the rest of the little restaurants that dot Chinatown's narrow side streets, except that it's so crowded -- savvy locals and celebratory groups fill both compact dining rooms every night.
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User Reviews for Peach Farm
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Good value for the price
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Typical chinese restaurant, prices are not high, good choice of sea food. The place is very popular apparently so you may have to wait for a while before being seated
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- posted on 11.19.12
- by Santa C
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Loads of food and super fast service
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Decided to head here because the wife loves lobster in black bean sauce and seems as if this is the only place we could find that would make it. We were glad we made it here. Arrived...
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- posted on 09.28.12
- by Bob M
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a little gem
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This is my favorite chinese restaurant. I usually go there for the lobster with ginger and scallions. They bring the live lobster from the tank and you choose the size. 11 dollars for...
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- posted on 09.22.12
- by giselledbueno
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Terrible! The worst place I've even been to. They say the tips you give is not enough and you should give how much...blabla.... And they push you to leave because there are more...
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- posted on 03.18.13
- by by xinz at Citysearch
Awards:
Frommer's
- Recommended 2009
- Recommended 2010
- Details
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Contact:
- visit website
- tel: 617/482-3332
Address:
- 4 Tyler St
- Boston, MA 2111
Neighborhood:
Chinatown/Theater DistrictPayments:
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Hours:
- Daily 11am-3am
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