61 avenue Choisy, 75013
Metro: Porte de Choisy
With Chinese New Year coming up, I had an early craving before the crowds commenced in the 13th. Fleurs de Mai is a Chinese restaurant with all the requirements needed : Chinese people serving other Chinese people with dead animals in the window.
This is no "traiteur" I remind you, it's real Chinese food. They have a variety of dishes covering noodles, to soups, to duck laque, to fish and whole crabs. We always get their "liseron d'eau a l'ail," and their chow fun ("pates de riz saute - seches"). Their chow mein seems quite popular - we saw several tables munching on noodles, and their fish dishes are quite good (like "poisson saute au gingembre"). Their Chrysanthemum tea is mild and sweet and they'll bring you a whole pot for 2 people for less than 3.50e.
This is no picturesque restaurant, it's small and crowded with paper covering over the table cloth and cracked plates. There is an upstairs that they use when it's busy, but it's still quite cramped. The waiter we have is always nice and the service is okay - not super fast, but not slow enough to actually complain.
Their main dishes are around 8.50 - 16 euros, and for 2 people we paid around 30 euros for 3 dishes with tea! It's a great sharing restaurant, as Chinese food should be! I definitely recommend it and will be back whenever I need to fill my craving!
