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“Xing”

Occasion:	Cuisine:	Area:	Cost:	Rating:
Night Out	Asian	Midtown	Moderate	Great

our mouths (skipping pancakes and hoisin sauce accoutrement altogether). And don’t think we didn’t pile on some fried rice ($8-$12)—a perfectly seasoned bowl of silky rice jumbled up with finely diced al dente veggies and bits of scrambled egg.

Wait. There’s more. I haven’t gotten to the donuts yet—beignets, actually, dusted in five spice powder, served in take-out cartons with some fruit puree dipping sauces. Take that carton and get it away from the rest of the people at the table. Puffy, freshly fried, utterly greaseless, and sugared with spices, these hot pom poms of yeasty dough will make you delirious with glee. Yes, GLEE!

And that, my dear readers, is the point of Xing. Who needs haute cuisine with levitating foams when you can have Egg Rolls, Crispy Shrimp, General Tso’s Chicken, Five Spice Donuts, and cocktails sucked out of a ceramic Buddha? Gather your friends together, and go to XING and get yourselves some GLEE. Life is too short to be lived without such delicious guilty pleasures.

XING is located at 785 Ninth Avenue, at 52nd Street, 646-289-3010.

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Posted: March 20, 2005

Other restaurants in Midtown :
+ Lever House   + Aquavit   + RM   + Joseph's (formerly Citarella The Restaurant)   + Town   + Artisanal   + The Oyster Bar   + Geisha   + David Burke and Donatella Restaurant   + Riingo   + Amma   + Cafe Sabarsky   + The Stone Rose Lounge   + BLT Steak   + V, The Steakhouse-- Closed   + Bar Masa   + Cafe Gray   + The Bar Room at The Modern   + The Cafe at Aquavit   + The Cafe at Aquavit   + Bistro du Vent-- Closed   + Shaburi   + Xing   + The Modern   + Bar Americain   + Alto   + Park Blue   + Mainland-- Closed   + Nobu 57   + Quality Meats   + Dona-- CLOSED   + Daisy May's   + 7Square-- CLOSED   + Amalia   + Fireside   + Anthos   + Patroon   + BLT Market   + Toloache   + Mia Dona   + Park Avenue Summer   + Convivio   + The Oak Room by guest reviewer Julie Besonen   + At Vermilion by guest reviewer Elaine Weiner   + Lunching at Inakaya, by guest reviewer Kathleen Squires   + Marea, by Guest Reviewer Susan Kane Walkush   + Le Bernardin   + New York Central -- A Reason To Eat at the Grand Hyatt Again   + Pampano Botaneria by Dara Pollak   

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