Taiwan's Best Selling Beer

When it comes to beer in an Asian restaurant, you'll find all the usual suspects available, but if you're looking for the award winning Taiwan Beer, Seven Seas is one of the few places that serve it. Taiwan Beer is a light lager that brings a taste of Taiwan right to our shores. During the brewing process, ponlai, a type of rice that's native to Taiwan, is added to create a unique flavor that sets it apart from other pale lagers in its class. Taiwan Beer has been recognized at the Brewing Industry International Awards in 2002 and won the International Monde Selection in 1997. Come and check it out!

Food Art Skills -- Our Chefs Have It

We prepared a variety of dishes for a recent book launch party with food art. Here are the results.

 

Join Us For Our New Happy Hour

Turn Your Favorite Appetizers Into Passed Hors d'oeuvres

A catered wedding event took us to Brookside Gardens over the Memorial Day weekend. One of the couple's requests was to have passed hors d'oeuvres, which included family dinner favorites like five-spices beef, spring rolls and spicy shrimp. Using disposable containers and bamboo picks, we designed the items and portions to be outdoor-friendly, all while maintaining our signature food presentation flair.

Five Spices Beef

Steamed Shao Mai

Shrimp In Peppercorn Oil

Vegetarian Spring Rolls

Cold Garlic Eggplant

Benefits Of Tofu And Delicious Ways To Enjoy Them

 
April is National Soyfoods Month and we're pleased about that! Tofu features prominently in many of our menu items, like mapo tofu, shredded pork in hot sauce and black mushroom in tofu roll. It's a healthy substitute for meat and has been touted for decades as a source of nutrients, including protein, amino acids, calcium and fiber. Soy also contains phytochemicals that are beneficial to our health. The main difference between tofu and meat protein is that you have to eat more tofu to meet the recommended dietary protein levels.

In the charts below, you can compare the nutritional values between tofu and chicken.

Valentine's Day Menu

Happy Lunar New Year 2013!

Happy Year of the Snake!

Snakes: Have good temper and a skill at communicating but say little. Possess gracious morality and great wisdom. Usually do not have to worry about money. Have tremendous sympathy for others and would like to take actions to help their fellow human beings. Determined to accomplish their goals and hate to fail. Although they look calm on the surface, they are intense and passionate. They have a rich source of inspiration and understand themselves well.

You are a Snake if your birth date falls:

01/23/1917-02/10/1918
02/10/1929-01/29/1930
01/27/1941-02/14/1942
02/14/1953-02/02/1954
02/02/1965-01/20/1966
02/18/1977-02/06/1978
02/06/1989-01/26/1990
01/24/2001-02/11/2002
02/10/2013-01/30/2014

Lunar New Year Ala-Carte Menu

Guess Who's Been Rated As One Of Montgomery County's Top Asian Restaurants?

We were recently voted Top Three Asian Restaurants in Montgomery County! Thanks to everyone who supported us.

 

Weekly Specials

Happy New Year! Here are our specials for the week:

Business Luncheon at the USP

The United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) had their annual three-day business conference with delegates from the Chinese branch of USP earlier this week. We catered lunch for three days and honored all dietary requests (halal, vegetarian, seafood allergy.) The menu was designed to suit typical Chinese tastebuds, while introducing some classic American Chinese dishes. Delegates were also thrilled with the fortune cookies, as it is still a novelty item in China! Our crew enjoyed serving this wonderful group of people and look forward to next year's conference!

Dinner Reception for Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech's Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability, located in Arlington, Va. hosted a dinner reception for faculty and students of the Executive Master of Natural Resources (XMNR) program on December 7, 2012. A Chinese-themed dinner was chosen to introduce program members to more authentic Chinese dishes that they would be likely to encounter during their trip to China next year. And it was our pleasure to present the finer side of Chinese cuisine!

Happy Thanksgiving! We're OPEN!

Hours today are 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Enjoy today with friends and loved ones! And when you're done with Black Friday shopping tomorrow, come and unwind with one of our new weekend sampler menus. Happy celebrating and happy shopping!

We Donated Our Fabled Purple Sticky Rice Dessert To A Worthy Cause

Interfaith Works held their annual Fables & Tables event, and we were there! We brought two trays of purple sticky rice pudding for this fundraiser benefiting low income and homeless residents of Montgomery County.

They didn't have a sign for our dish, so we improvised

Fables & Tables used the “Empty Bowls” international fundraising model, where gala attendees received a hand decorated bowl. The bowls serve as a reminder of the less fortunate people who go hungry in our community.

Many local restaurants donated their specialty soups.

Days later, the good folks at Interfaith called to say that our dessert "was a hit." We plan to contribute again next year.

Our Dumplings Hit A Home Run!

Hebrew Home, our neighbors across the street, recently asked us to participate in the post marathon fun at their annual Home Run Race. A 5k run that benefits a senior citizen home? Of course we had to do it! Edward and Corinna were up bright and early to serve chicken dumplings to over 100 people. We had a great time!

Corinna up bright and early to serve dumplings to marathon runners and their families.

This guy loved our dumplings so much he came back three times for more.

We made sure the race volunteers got fed too.

Fiesta Asia Was A Blast!

Our crew had a great time organizing the Seven Seas food booth for this event. The planning stages, menu creation, booth design and day-of operations were a great experience for everyone involved.

As expected, the day turned out to be mucho busy. There wasn't much time for pictures except during the initial setup. But when the Chinese god came to dance in front of our booth, everyone couldn't resist dropping what they were doing to watch!

Beef Noodle Soup Party: Success! If You Missed It, Catch The Next One This Sunday, April 29, 2012

We're having this party again, this time at College Park. You'll have a choice of Red Braised Beef Noodle Soup (Hong Shao Niu Rou Mian) OR Clear Broth Beef Noodle Soup (Qing Dun Niu Rou Mian.) A variety of traditional Chinese appetizers will also be served, on the house! Please join us!  

Details:
What: Beef Noodle Soup Party, $15 per person (includes tip and tax)
When: Sunday, April 29 2012, 1:30 p.m.
Where: Seven Seas Chinese Restaurant, 8503 Baltimore Avenue, College Park, MD 20740

Specials for Good Friday and Passover

It's Good Friday, and the start of Passover!

Tilapia with Ginger & Scallions

Check out our specials on fish:

• Live: TILAPIA $12.95/lb; CATFISH $6.95/lb.

• Whole Fish: FLOUNDER $28.95/piece, FLORIDA POMPANO $14.95/piece.

Lin-tastic Sizzling Plate Atlantic Cod

• Lin-tastic Special - ATLANTIC COD Sizzling Plate Meal $14.95.

• Sauteed SALMON with Vegetables $14.95.

Jumbo Lump Crabcake

And for crab lovers:

• Crab Cake - 1 piece for $10.95, 2 pieces for $16.95.

Dish of the Month - Ja Jang Mein

The Chinese love this traditional Korean dish so much that long ago, we created our own version. It comes the same soy-based dark sauce used in Korean ja jang myun, with ground pork, tofu cubes, shiitake mushrooms and dried shrimp thrown in. Use the cold cucumber shreds as little breaks in between hot mouthfuls of noodles - or just mix it all up into the sauce and noodles. Sounds like a great lunch!

Taiwanese-style Sizzling Platter

There is an irresistible charm about eating hot food served out of a street cart. Although we can't replicate the experience of an outdoor Asian night market, we can introduce one dish from Taiwanese night markets - food on a sizzling platter, or "teppan" in Chinese.

The same type of "teppan" dish in the video below is very popular among night market-goers in Taiwan. It has steak, noodles and a half-cooked egg that the diner scrambled up before the hot plate cooled down.

Now you can find sizzling plate dishes at Seven Seas! To add a little variety to the dish's texture, we decided to throw in some vegetables too.

 Our chefs prepare two "teppan" dishes