Beautiful South

Name: Beautiful South
Address: 128 Columbus St, Suite 101, Charleston, SC, 29403, US
Telephone: 843-410-8129
Price range: $$

Cantonese$$

Sun-Thu 11am-2pm & 5pm-9pm; Fri-Sat 11am-2pm & 5pm-10pm

Lo mein: Soft, thick egg noodles boiled and then tossed, not fried, with sauce, vegetables and a protein. Where chow mein is about crispness, lo mein is about slippery, sauce-coated noodles. On this menu as: Lo Mein Noodles.
Fried rice: Day-old rice stir-fried with egg, scallion and whatever the kitchen adds. Yangzhou (Yang Chow) style means shrimp, char siu and peas, and is the version most menus mean by "house special". Good fried rice is dry and separate-grained, never wet. On this menu as: Crab Fried Rice.
Char siu: Cantonese barbecued pork: strips of shoulder or belly marinated in hoisin, honey, soy and five-spice, roasted until the edges char and lacquer red. Sliced over rice, folded into buns, or hung in the window with roast duck and soy chicken. On this menu as: House-Smoked Char Siu.

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