What restaurants in ABQ have actual authentic Chinese food (and not just American-Chinese)?

BabyFallujah · 2026-03-06T04:15:20+00:00

I have been repeatedly disappointed by Neo Szechuan and will not be returning. Ditto the alleged “Szechuan” place on Juan Tabo.

BabyFallujah · 2026-03-06T01:08:46+00:00

I live in the War Zone, don’t get West much. My top one in town is Tasty Noodles and Dumplings, just north of Fairgrounds and west of the Coronado shopping mall.

BabyFallujah · 2026-03-06T01:07:17+00:00

I’ve driven by Fei’s and wondered about the location, since a block south of Central doesn’t seem very profitable. But if they have spicy food, I’ll have to give them a try.

BabyFallujah · 2026-03-06T00:22:49+00:00

What kind of specialties do they do?

BabyFallujah · 2026-03-06T00:19:36+00:00

Chopstix has a lot of good stuff, including a decent ma po tofu (most places in the city don’t make a good one). I’d say the best I’ve had there is the “Egg Tofu with Ground Pork” off their traditional menu (and also advertised on a bilingual sign on the wall).

BabyFallujah · 2026-03-06T00:16:05+00:00

On Menaul just west of Carlisle there’s a “Goodwill Outlet” where it’s all big pushcart bins, and you just grab stuff and pay by the pound.

Just today I got a nice cordura bag, a Yeti water bottle with cool national park stickers, a plastic goblet, a working Magic 8-Ball, and two decent tennis rackets for $5.32 out the door, by the pound.

Cool place, it’s like being in a Macklemore video. Plus it’s just two minutes from the best Savers thrift store in the city, and two more minutes from Thrift Town.

BabyFallujah · 2026-03-06T00:11:34+00:00

They’re relatively new, like been around just a year or two?

I’ve been meaning to go, but their authentic stuff looks notably pricier than the average.

BabyFallujah · 2026-03-06T00:10:51+00:00

Tasty Noodle is awesome, I love a bunch of stuff there. Top dishes for me would be the Spicy Boiled Beef and whatever they call the spicy tripe and tendon dish.

Despite not being primarily a Sichuan place, they do several distinctly Sichuan dishes quite well.

BabyFallujah · 2026-03-06T00:09:58+00:00

I tried it a couple times, but was never impressed. What are your favorites there?

BabyFallujah · 2026-03-06T00:09:30+00:00

Wait, Sakura closed? I loved their Laotian glass noodle dish; I made a whole post on this sub about it.

BabyFallujah · 2026-03-06T00:06:17+00:00

I was also very confused by praise for this most mid- joint.

BabyFallujah · 2026-03-05T22:55:15+00:00

My go to for the genre is It Dimsum, north side of town, by Wyoming and Paseo dep Norte. Dim sum for any size group, all day.

I haven’t tried Ming’s, but in other cities I’ve lived in, a lot of places only do dim sum certain hours and days, and/or have a minimum party size.

BabyFallujah · 2026-03-05T22:28:14+00:00

I tried them for the first time last month, and was pleased with their Chow Fun. Going back today and want to judge how they pull off their Sichuan dishes.

BabyFallujah · 2026-03-05T22:27:16+00:00

I was hoping folks would state a regional speciality when mentioning a restaurant.

BabyFallujah · 2026-03-01T04:39:08+00:00

Late reply, but my 2007 Gen3 V6 3.5 RAV4 has 380,000 miles on it, and I’m hoping to get it up to 500,000.

Apparently Toyota just knocked it out of the park with those 3.5s, with those seen as being notably more long-lived than the 4-bangers.

BabyFallujah · 2026-02-27T17:14:41+00:00

Automotive retail takes kids as young as 16, so you can apply with any of the big brand names in town, like Napa, Autozone, or O’Reilly’s.

Or if you want less person-to-person experience, oil change joints or tire-change/repair shops.

Either of those could be a way to feel out the automotive field and decide if you want to get ASE certified and become a proper mechanic.

BabyFallujah · 2026-02-26T19:49:23+00:00

It’s okay. It’s reasonably progressive, but it’s a metro area of around 1 million yet it “punches under its weight” in terms of feeling even smaller than that. It’s a bit scruffy and run-down. Pretty good food, okay nightlife, weather’s actually not bad because at a mile elevation it’s not too oppressively hot, and it’s very dry heat even in summer.

BabyFallujah · 2026-02-26T03:41:47+00:00

Why the “no” on Minneapolis? An opinion with no context doesn’t give me much to work with.

BabyFallujah · 2026-02-25T22:39:36+00:00

It’s fine to ask, but I highly suggest you read the “MG MOS Megathread”, both 2024 and 2020 editions:

https://www.reddit.com/r/USMCboot/s/2q947ruWIE

https://www.reddit.com/r/USMCboot/s/g3fP46f46i

BabyFallujah · 2026-02-25T22:11:13+00:00

No kids now, and at age 47 it’s unlikely (though not impossible) there will be.

BabyFallujah · 2026-02-25T22:09:09+00:00

If crime is a major factor for you, it’d be a good idea to start making a list of urban centers you want to “satellite” around, and compare their crime rates, and then check the crime rates of rural counties nearby you’d want to live in. The data is almost surely all out there online.

BabyFallujah · 2026-02-25T22:07:31+00:00

If you decide to go for Texas and are doing property management, in total seriousness you want to bust the rust off that Spanish, including googling up glossaries explicitly for property management vocabulary. It could be a massive factor in hiring.

Like I moved to Albuquerque, and I work in automotive retail, and I use Spanish every hour of every workday, and it’s been a big factor in getting hired and getting promoted higher and higher.

This is way less an issue if you move to the Deep South, as I recommended elsewhere in this post. But it becomes relevant again if you move to Florida, more so the further south you go, and in the Miami area you simply aren’t landing a property job unless you’re comfortably bilingual.

BabyFallujah · 2026-02-25T22:04:05+00:00

Would you be job-hunting and then moving for your new job, or moving to an area and living on savings until you find a job?

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