Central China for Breakfast

Central China restaurant at 9390 Bellaire in Houston’s new Chinatown is a lovely place for breakfast. The restaurant opens at 7:30 am and serves the long fried cruellers known as Chinese doughnuts along with several sizes of heated soy and almond milk for dunking them in. Bring your own reading material, all the newspapers here are in Chinese.

I like dumplings and noodles for my Chinese breakfast. The lamb dumplings (which are called “mutton dumplings” on the menu) are particularly tasty. I made a dip with the ground chiles in oil and some soy sauce to dip the dumplings and scallion pancakes in. The bill for my meal of hot tea, scallion pancakes, mutton dumplings, and beef noodle soup with choy was under $15. It would have been a nice breakfast for three people. I took most of it home where my hungry housemates ate the rest of the dumplings and pancakes for lunch. I still have some beef noodle soup in the fridge.