I wouldn't have thought that the most authentic Russian dishes I've had are made from a Chinese food store. The piroshki Cafe use to be a East-european little canting if I didn't remember wrong. Now it's been taken from a Chinese couple, but what interesting is, there're not only noodle soup or fried rice on the menu, my attention draw by the borsch soup and cabbage rolls.
The owner is from north-east China where is border on Russia, he learnt to make some featured and distinguish Russian/Polish dishes like borsch soup and piroshki.
My favourite dish is the borsch soup with dumplings, there're beef, pork and potato dumplings to choose from, and served in a bowl of burgundy-colour soup, it has beet root and leaves, potato and cabbages in it, top with a scoop of sour cream, before eating, you can mix the sour cream in the soup and tastes so good, it's not like those Chinese noodle soup or Korean spicy soups, but with a delightful mild and light sweet flavour, the beef dumplings I had are in a perfect grease and match the mild-taste soup so well. Every friend I bought here to have the soup all loved it.
The cabbage roll comes with 3 side salad: carrots, potato salad and purple cabbage salad. The cabbage roll itself is filling with diced beef and rice. A nice choice if you don't want to have soup.
And the Piroshki! It's a must try, fresh fried dough filling with beef&rice (their best seller), beef&onion, spinach&ricotta, potato&beef and much more, and a big fried donut thing in cycle shape, tastes like less sweet donut. Better to eat the piroshkis when they're warm, could be a great simple breakfast with coffee or just an afternoon bites. I'm also surprised they have turkish/greek coffee on the menu, Man this place is full of exoticism. Extra star for its uniqueness. read more