{"id":3997,"date":"2018-04-26T11:27:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T15:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/?p=3997"},"modified":"2018-04-26T11:31:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T15:31:39","slug":"lotus-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/lotus-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lotus Garden<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lotusvienna.com\/\">web site<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/lotusgarden.webs.com\/\">another web site<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/224+Maple+Ave+W,+Vienna,+VA+22180\/\">224 Maple Ave. West, Vienna, VA<\/a>, 703-255-9888 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmata.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Metro Trip Planner<\/a> &#8211; opens in new window)  [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zagat.com\/r\/lotus-garden-vienna\">Zagat<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/fcnp.com\/2014\/09\/17\/restaurant-spotlight-lotus-garden\/\">FCNP<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tripadvisor.com\/Restaurant_Review-g60996-d3685954-Reviews-Lotus_Garden-Vienna_Fairfax_County_Virginia.html\">TripAdvisor<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernvirginiamag.com\/food\/reviews\/2013\/05\/24\/lotus-garden-in-vienna\/\">NoVA Mag<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/lotus-garden-vienna\">Ylp<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been many times, and I sway between &#8220;this is a really good Cantonese restaurant, with wonderful pulled noodles&#8221; and &#8220;this is a pretty good Cantonese restaurant for this region, with wonderful pulled noodles.&#8221; Ultimately I think I have settled on the latter. You can watch them do the noodles in the window, and these dishes do not disappoint. That said, I find it a little boring over time. I&#8217;ve had &#8220;just right&#8221; Cantonese meals here, but too many of the dishes tend toward the gloppy and heavy. But it&#8217;s still much better than most of the other Cantonese places around, though I would put it behind <a href=\"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/x-o-taste-seafood-restaurant\/\">X.O. Taste<\/a>. If you&#8217;re into Chinese food you should try it, noting that your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/chef-tan\/\" title=\"Chef Tan\">Chef Tan<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/thai-treasure\/\" title=\"Thai Treasure\">Thai Treasure<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/aditi\/\" title=\"Aditi\">Aditi<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/blend-111\/\" title=\"Blend 111\">Blend 111<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/punjabi-by-nature\/\" title=\"Punjabi by Nature\">Punjabi by Nature<\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus Garden, web site (another web site), 224 Maple Ave. West, Vienna, VA, 703-255-9888 (Metro Trip Planner &#8211; opens in new window) [Zagat | FCNP | TripAdvisor | NoVA Mag | Ylp] I\u2019ve been many times, and I sway between &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/lotus-garden\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,4,26,3],"tags":[1377,1748,1750,481,1751,1749],"class_list":["post-3997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cantonese","category-chinese","category-viennatysons","category-virginia","tag-cantonese","tag-lotus-garden","tag-pulled-noodles","tag-vienna","tag-x-o-taste","tag-xo-taste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4002,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions\/4002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}