Excellent Cuisine

The Chinese restaurant Excellent Cuisine operates in the King Plaza strip mall on Division Street, in the southeast Portland part of the Montavilla neighborhood, serving dim sum and other Chinese cuisine. The menu has included ham sui gok (deep-fried dumplings with minced pork and scallion), har gow, red shrimp rice rolls, rice noodle rolls, and shumai. The restaurant has also served fried squab and salt-and-pepper squid, Peking duck, braised fish head in a clay pot, and glutinous rice. Dessert options include coconut pudding, egg tarts, oatmeal-stuffed buns, pineapple buns, and sesame balls. == History ==

Excellent Cuisine opened in late 2020, in the space that previously occupied Wong's King, which closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Excellent Cuisine has operated on Christmas. == Reception ==

In 2022, Katherine Chew Hamilton of Portland Monthly wrote: In the magazine's 2022 overview of the city's best Chinese food, she said Excellent Cuisine "excels at both dim sum standards and newfangled dishes". She recommended the ha gow, siu mai, coconut pudding rabbits, and red rice noodle rolls, which she called "a delight of textures and flavors worth a visit on its own", but advised avoiding the oatmeal-stuffed bun and the salted egg yolk bun. In Eater Portland 2023 list of sixteen restaurants for "delectable" dumplings in the metropolitan area, Thom Hilton and Seiji Nanbu called Excellent Cuisine "the hotspot for dim sum in Portland right now", with food "executed with aplomb" and "some fun options ... that are a little harder to find at other dim sum shops". In the website's 2023 overview of "outstanding" Chinese cuisine in the area, Nanbu and Janey Wong wrote: "The name of this dim sum spot ... gets the point across: Excellent Cuisine's handmade, piping hot dumplings and buns are exactly as described... Beyond its dim sum, Excellent Cuisine's larger menu is full of gems." Brooke Jackson-Glidden recommend the restaurant in her 2024 "Eater's Guide" to the city. She and Michelle Lopez also included Excellent Cuisine in a 2024 overview of Portland's best restaurants for special occasions. == See also ==