Duck House Chinese Restaurant Portland [Takeout Review]

Duck House Chinese Restaurant is a popular Chinese restaurant in Downtown Portland.

The restaurant is chef-owned and operated by Chef Ivan Liu who specializes in Sichuan cuisine.

Their menu is quite extensive and appears to have dishes of Sichuan, Shanghai, Cantonese and American-Chinese style. You will find pork soup dumplings; pot stickers; soups (like tomato fried egg soup and snow pea leaves fried egg soup); seafood dishes (like cashew prawns and salt & pepper Squid); chicken (like salt & pepper chicken wings and orange chicken); beef & lamb dishes (like cumin beef and stir-fried lamb with clilantro); pork dishes (like pork with bamboo shoots); rice and noodle entrees and so forth.

The restaurant is located in what was formerly the First National Taphouse and they seemed to have retained the look of a tavern for the interior.

If you dine-in, you can join their waitlist on Yelp. We ordered takeout and got the following.

• Pork Xiao Long Bao (9 pieces)  $14.95
• Yang Zhou Fried Rice   $14.95
• Eggplant w/ Basil   $14.95
• Pork & Vegetable Dumplings (8 pieces) $12.95

When I picked up the takeout, the package was pretty hot so the food was nice and warm by the time we got around to eating it at our hotel. The XLB were on point with reasonably thin wrapper; tender, juicy meat fillings; and a rich broth. The fried rice had a decent wok hei (charred, smoky flavor) and a good amount of vegetables and prawns. The eggplant with basil was Sichuan spicy and the pork & vegetable dumplings were good.

Some MSG was probably incorporated in the food; we were a bit thirsty afterwards but it was OK.

Overall, a good takeout order with good quality food at reasonable prices and portions. A decent amount of meat given for the dishes with meat. Check out them to support a good, local small business in Portland.

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