Ocean Wealth
Blanking on you Chinatown regulars' opinions on this place...any? Thx!
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Ocean wealth is still open. Its posted closing time is 4 am and I am pretty sure that they are still staying open well past 2 am, despite the Globe article claims.
Ocean wealth might be the least clean restaurant in Chinatown (especially the floor and bathroom), but the table tops, plates, cups, and cutlery are generally clean.
The live shrimp tanks face the entrance (along the wall at the base of the stairs) and are great when they have them -- order by the pound. The seafood hotpot, razor clams, crispy flounder, roast chicken, and lobster special are also very good. The lobster special is two fairly small lobsters prepared either with ginger and scallion, salt and pepper, or black bean sauce.
They also have live stone fish tanks, and if you like stone fish, they make a very authentic and delicate stone fish soup. Although many of the seafood specials are on a Chinese only menu, there is generally someone by the door who speaks English well. So if you have some dishes in mind, you could probably ask. But be sure to ask about the price too -- many of the dishes on the Chinese menu are a great deal, but many others are priced per pound.
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re: tmab
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That wasn't my impression the one time I was there - it was about two months ago, on a weekday towards the end of lunchtime (probably ~1:00PM) It didn't feel dangerously unclean or anything, just a little rundown & washed-out - it could've used a fresh coat of paint on the walls and a good vigorous sweeping and some better lighting.
I literally don't remember what I got for lunch, and I'm not someone who forgets a lunch. Apparently it was nothing that's made me go back there - but crispy flounder does sound delicious (Who am I kidding? Crispy *anything* sounds delicious...), so I may have to give them another try.
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a l i c e
Jun 27, 2006 01:05 AM
Used to show up at 2 am on a regular basis when I was in school here in Boston...we always stuck with seafood. As Limster wrote, lobsters with giner/scallion or with black bean sauce were always great at that hour. Hmmm...I thought it had closed. Is it still open? In light of the recent Globe article, I am nostalgic - I think a late night weekday trip to Chinatown is in order!
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