This place opened at least a year ago, but we just now got around to trying it. I am not 100 percent sure about this because I used Google translator, but I think “Shifu” means “master” in Chinese, as in having mastered the art of cooking Chinese food.
Shifu Express is in the mall at the southeast corner of
South Boulder Road and South Public Road where Fortune Cookie used to be. We
ordered takeout on a Wednesday night, and G drove over to pick it up. I asked
him if they still have a steam table, which is one of the offerings on their
website and probably the reason for “Express” in the name, but he said no, at
least not that night. There were several other parties stopping in for
takeout orders. There is an online ordering system that worked very well, though
it would be nice to have more details about the menu options in the ordering
system. For instance, I assume the dumplings we ordered were filled with pork, but the menu didn’t specify.
We got an order of fried pork dumplings, General Tau’s chicken
for G, and combination fried rice for me. I especially liked the dumplings
because they had a nice chewy texture and lots of filling. G said his chicken
was good, and I liked my fried rice (this is a kind of basic comfort food
for me; I contemplated being more adventurous but then stuck with a familiar
selection).
Believe it or not, it’s actually difficult for me to find
much more to say about it! When I did the first restaurant project, someone
asked me what my favorite Chinese restaurant in Lafayette was now that I had
tried them all, and I was unable to pick one because they all seemed good. It’s
possible that they have slightly different menu options, but for the things we
like and tend to order, they are pretty much the same. It would be hard to
compare unless I had an order of, say, fried rice from each of them to line up and
do an actual taste test. At any rate, we would be happy to eat here again.
* Lafayette Restaurant Project Redux: visiting all the new places that have opened since the end of the previous round of the LRP.
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| Top left: General Tau's chicken with dumplings; top right: combination fried rice with dumplings |
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