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Tommy's Wok Frommer's Very Highly Recommended

Cuisine Chinese
Hours Tues-Sun 11:30am-2:30pm and 4:30-9:30pm
Location Mission (between Ocean and Seventh, next to the Wells Fargo ATM), Around Town
Phone 831/624-8518
Prices Main courses $7-$16
Credit Cards AE, DISC, MC, V

Frommer's Review

Far be it for Carmel to have an ordinary Chinese restaurant. Chef/owner Tommy Mao has eschewed the typical red-and-gold color scheme for a far more austere, almost Japanese, decor. The small 12-table restaurant -- with its soothing pastel hues, rice-paper posters, semiopen kitchen, and glossy wood floor -- is an apt setting for Mao's stylish presentations and unique combinations of Szechuan, Hunan, and Mandarin dishes. Mao makes everything from scratch: pot stickers are made with fresh Napa cabbage, moo shu vegetables with house-made pancakes, tea-smoked duck is marinated for 48 hours. The hot and spicy string beans, pine nut chicken, marinated Lover's Prawns, and Mongolian lamb are also winners. The combo lunch plates are a bargain, and a modest dim sum menu is offered for lunch as well.

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