Han Palace

Han Palace located on Barracks Row offers dim sum and Chinese dishes in a casual atmosphere.  Closest Metro is Eastern Market. For New Year's Day, we wanted dim sum!  We walked over to the fairly new second location of Han Palace (first location is in Woodley Park) and saw it was already quite crowded, so we sat at the bar.  While set tasting menus are available - Option A offers all the dim sum with hot tea for $38 per person with a two hour limit and Option B offers the meat and vegetable entree dishes for $48 per person - we decided to order a la carte.

The Soup Dumpling were stuffed with minced pork and had a warm soup inside.  Unfortunately, some of our dumplings stuck to the box and the soup leaked out.  These were tasty, but we've had better quality ones before.

We also ordered Shrimp Dumpling.  These were just okay.

The Yang Chow Fried Rice came studded with roasted pork and shrimp and was very light and fluffy.

For something more substantial we ate classic Orange Chicken with a thick sweet and sour sauce and Crispy Eggplant also coated in a sweet sauce.  The eggplant were stuffed with a sweet batter making these bite quite filling.  

We had plenty of leftovers to take home with us.  The decor inside was nice, but we were surprised by how small and cramped it was.  I was a little let down by the dim sum, but I would go back again to try some other dishes. 

Total Rating: 3.68

Food: 3.5, Price: 4, Service: 3.5, Ambience: 3.5, Accessibility: 5