Wild Ginger Asian Bistro | Dish | South Florida | Broward Palm Beach New Times | The Leading Independent News Source in Broward-Palm Beach, Florida

Restaurant Reviews

Wild Ginger Asian Bistro

It's getting so the best gauge of a new restaurant's success is how many years the proprietors have already been in the business. The team that opened Wild Ginger in CityPlace a couple of months ago certainly has the creds: Lirim Jacobi owns Taverna Opa and City Pizza; his partner in this venture is Dixon Li, of the long-running Lake Worth staple Dixon Li's. I have a soft spot for Li because his Chinese restaurant on Lake Worth Road was my late dad's favorite place to hang – the atmosphere was convivial, and the complimentary fried noodles were always crunchy. I once almost drowned in Dixon's parking lot during a hurricane, which I'd idiotically decided to drive out into in search of an egg roll. Li's, needless to say, was the only restaurant brave enough to stay open in that deluge. So it looks like old Dixon has the necessary persistence to face CityPlace. We've seen several upscale and mid-priced Asian restaurants come and go here (Thai Jo just opened upstairs, in fact). Li's inexpensive and tasty Chinese/Thai menu of moo shu, noodles, and stir fries might be the golden ticket. Everything we tried here, from wonton soup to Thai curries, was good in that fatty, salty, Asian-comfort-food kind of way, and portions were huge enough to provide breakfast and lunch the next day.
KEEP NEW TIMES BROWARD-PALM BEACH FREE... Since we started New Times Broward-Palm Beach, it has been defined as the free, independent voice of South Florida, and we'd like to keep it that way. With local media under siege, it's more important than ever for us to rally support behind funding our local journalism. You can help by participating in our "I Support" program, allowing us to keep offering readers access to our incisive coverage of local news, food and culture with no paywalls.
Gail Shepherd
Contact: Gail Shepherd

Latest Stories