Judy, the owner, and her son, David are usually around. I wouldn’t make a trip up to Seattle just for a stop at the Snappy Dragon, but I do try to work it in to a visit at least once a year. I’m also a fan of their Green Onion Pancakes and their BBQ pork. Fresh noodles are the bomb, and they do them wonderfully. As I mentioned, the fresh noodle chow mein is well known, and a great dish. Another dish I adore from there is the “Dry Sauteed String Beans” (I can make that dish too). After some puttering, I finally nailed it, and I make them a few times a year (and always on New Year’s Eve, where you sit with friends and drink and talk and make them in the last few hours of the old year and then eat them in the first hours of the New Year – a lovely tradition I’ve flatly stolen from the Chinese). So, I logged a few meals at the dumpling bar watching their technique, and then hit the library (for you young’uns, that is how you googled before the world wide web) to find some recipes. And that was a good thing, because when I stumble on something I love in a restaurant, I kind of obsess over it until I can figure out how to make it myself. They even have a Jiao-zi bar in the corner of the restaurant where you can sit and watch them make them. They are probably most famous for their Jiao-zi (boiled dumplings) and their Chow Mein with soft, house-made noodles, rolled and cut to order. First off, they use lots of fresh, local ingredients. It isn’t the most authentic Chinese food you can get in Seattle (the international district has some really fun options), but it has some stellar dishes that make it worth the stop. A frequent dining spot was Judy Fu’s Snappy Dragon ( - it is in the Maple Leaf neighborhood Northeast of Downtown Seattle - 8917 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115). I lived in Seattle for about 10 years and have quite a few restaurant I really like there.
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