New Shanghai - Boston, MA

New Shanghai Restaurant specializes in Beijing and Szechwan cuisines but the restaurant's Chinese name, Jing Chuan, is more reflective of the menu, which is remarkable for its duality, and diners are urged to order from both sides of the menu.

Szechwan dishes include twice-cooked pork belly - crisp strips of bacon, stir-fried with slivered leeks and red pepper flakes - and rabbit hot pot szechwan-style, a savory stew of rabbit, shiitakes, bamboo and ginger.

Or order Beijing specialties like braised pork loin, slowly simmered in soy, sugar, rice wine, garlic and scallions, or the oddly translated "leek case" - flaky pastry turnovers stuffed with leeks and scrambled egg.