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Eat at Omi if you want good Chinese food in Baton Rouge
Posted on 8/24/13 at 1:55 am
Posted on 8/24/13 at 1:55 am
I ate at Omi tonight in Baton Rouge. Yes, it is a pain in the arse to get to because of the location (One Calais off of Essen), but do yourself a favor and try it. If you're thinking of a typical Chinese joint where you point at a picture that consists of some random animal protein with some nondescript mixed vegetables in a brown sauce, that is definitely NOT what this place is.
The food is GOOD. I had the Chong Qing spicy chicken and I got a dish of nicely crisped chicken in a sauce that was pretty much just the oil it was cooked in with a bunch of chilis. Not extremely hot, but with notes of flavor that stood out on their own. The cumin spicy pork we had was different. The pork was well cooked with just enough spice to flavor the dish, and it was presented simply. Pork, spice, shoots, and a bit of the oils it was cooked in.
The only thing that wasn't great was the hot and sour soup. It was neither hot nor sour, but the two entrees we had more than made up for it. This is one of those restaurants that Baton Rouge should support. Try it. Its location is terrible, but what they're doing there is not. This is definitely one of Baton Rouge's good restaurants.
The food is GOOD. I had the Chong Qing spicy chicken and I got a dish of nicely crisped chicken in a sauce that was pretty much just the oil it was cooked in with a bunch of chilis. Not extremely hot, but with notes of flavor that stood out on their own. The cumin spicy pork we had was different. The pork was well cooked with just enough spice to flavor the dish, and it was presented simply. Pork, spice, shoots, and a bit of the oils it was cooked in.
The only thing that wasn't great was the hot and sour soup. It was neither hot nor sour, but the two entrees we had more than made up for it. This is one of those restaurants that Baton Rouge should support. Try it. Its location is terrible, but what they're doing there is not. This is definitely one of Baton Rouge's good restaurants.
This post was edited on 8/24/13 at 1:56 am
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Posted on 8/24/13 at 2:05 am to BRgetthenet
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Any leftovers?
Nope. The soup stayed. Everything else left in me.
This post was edited on 8/24/13 at 2:06 am
Posted on 8/24/13 at 2:44 am to TigerstuckinMS
I usually love their hot and sour soup. Maybe you got it on an off night.
Different strokes, either way.
Different strokes, either way.
Posted on 8/24/13 at 5:06 am to TigerstuckinMS
I read this and thought my dead grandmother opened a restaurant. Lol
Posted on 8/24/13 at 7:48 am to TigerstuckinMS
FANTASTIC! another OMI thread.. 3rd one in as many weeks, and I think that is a good thing. The more pub this place gets the better. I do not want it to die in that hell hole location.
LOVE LOVE LOVE the food... I go at least 3 times a month. Cumin pork, cumin chicken, ants climbing on trees, stir fried string beans, the spring roll... DELISH!!!
I don't know how the name is pronounced but I see it and think OH MY. because thats what I said the first time I had the owners food at his old LSU place. This place is a WINNER.
LOVE LOVE LOVE the food... I go at least 3 times a month. Cumin pork, cumin chicken, ants climbing on trees, stir fried string beans, the spring roll... DELISH!!!
I don't know how the name is pronounced but I see it and think OH MY. because thats what I said the first time I had the owners food at his old LSU place. This place is a WINNER.
This post was edited on 8/24/13 at 7:49 am
Posted on 8/24/13 at 8:49 am to TigerstuckinMS
No thanks, I would rather do Hunan's.
Posted on 8/24/13 at 9:00 am to TigerstuckinMS
So the best Chinese food in BR is at a Japanese restaurant?
Posted on 8/24/13 at 9:31 am to Uncle Stu
They have a chinese and a japanese menu, and yes, it is the best chinese in Baton Rouge.
Posted on 8/24/13 at 9:32 am to Uncle Stu
Yes.
Posted on 8/24/13 at 10:46 am to Uncle Stu
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So the best Chinese food in BR is at a Japanese restaurant?
Yep(I know..no matter how good..it speaks horrendously of BR's Chinese scene). Also, Koto & Ichiban Sushi both owned by Chinese owners..one of which runs a much better Japanese restaurant than he ever did his previous Chinese restaurant.
Tex-Mex Cafe, Azteca, Las Palmas..Arab owned. And are crappy, yet with but one Superior and Ninfa and La Carreta, and until BR folks go to the taquerias en-masse, there is room for weak Tex-Mex joints to still make bank.
You go with the fatter profit margins and hot markets. Chinese on some dishes, and most all Lebanese fare, are time intensive, and can be costly in ingredients. Mexican is cheap fare, easier sophistication for kitchen staff to master. Sushi/Teppan takes extensive training, and utilizes premium ingredients, but is relatively fast in prep time by well-trained staff, and works on huge profit margins..that turns tables.
This post was edited on 8/24/13 at 11:11 am
Posted on 8/24/13 at 11:54 am to TigerstuckinMS
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The only thing that wasn't great was the hot and sour soup. It was neither hot nor sour
Coffee Talk moment. Talk amongst yourselves.
Posted on 8/24/13 at 12:56 pm to Roy Oldhafer
Tell them to paint the place and clean up the parking lot. I tried to go there with my staff for lunch and the outside was so nasty I couldn't convince to go in so we went somewhere else.
I really want to try this place but the drive up doesn't exude excellence.
I really want to try this place but the drive up doesn't exude excellence.
Posted on 8/24/13 at 1:04 pm to Uncle Stu
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So the best Chinese food in BR is at a Japanese restaurant?
Chef is chinese as far as I know, he used to be a personal chef for some upscale family in China.
It's the former owner of Koi, by LSU.
Posted on 8/24/13 at 1:12 pm to HMTVBrian2
Exactly. I've mentioned previously that he should accentuate the Chinese fare, previous Koi ownage, and not focus on being yet another sushi joint in the Essen/Perkins corridor. Promote the genuine regional chinese cuisine.
BR doesn't need yet another sushi joint(be it good, meh or bad), something the owners of Sake Cafe failed to realize instead of setting up an Cafe East in ala carte/non-buffet starved Chinese BR.
BR doesn't need yet another sushi joint(be it good, meh or bad), something the owners of Sake Cafe failed to realize instead of setting up an Cafe East in ala carte/non-buffet starved Chinese BR.
This post was edited on 8/25/13 at 11:18 pm
Posted on 8/24/13 at 1:45 pm to TheRoarRestoredInBR
Agreed! We don't need anymore sushi restaurants.
I refuse to eat at Las Plamas for the reason mentioned above. And he's an arse.
I refuse to eat at Las Plamas for the reason mentioned above. And he's an arse.
Posted on 8/25/13 at 9:54 pm to tracytiger
I do wonder what % of their business is off the Chinese menu. I've been in there when it was fairly busy several times and most people were eating off the Chinese menu. The sushi offering may wither on the vine.
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