[Rowland Heights] [Chinese] Haige Star Boulevard

Haige Star Boulevard
海哥星光大道
18438 E Colima Rd #105
Rowland Heights, CA 91748
(626) 839-2438

My friend Tammy invited us out for dinner to her new found favorite restaurant, Haige Star Boulevard. She said it was so good that she with her fiancee, cousin, and cousin's husband had dinner there 4 days in a row! She told me that place has really good spicy crawfish. It's not like Boiling Crab kind of crawfish, but like a Chinese Szechuan style spicy crawfish. If they would go eat 4 days in a row and still want to go back again, food must be really good. Plus this place has a really strange name. So I want to go check it out more. haha....


麻辣花生 Fried Spicy Peanut ($4.99)

Fried Spicy Peanut was on the menu for $4.99, but they gave it to us for free. Maybe it was because my friends went there too often? The peanut looked really spicy with all the chili pepper, but it wasn't as spicy as I thought. I think they added some sugar too it, too. It was a mixture of spicy, salty, and sweet. It tasted even better with some beer. A pitcher of beer is $10 there. Spicy food really goes well with beer.



水煮兩樣 Spicy Steam Beef & Fish ($12.99)

Spicy Steam Beef & Fish was Dr. P's favorite dish to order in EVERY spicy Chinese restaurant. But he didn't order it this time. Our friends already placed the order when we got there. Apparently this was one of their favorite dish also. This place makes their food really really spicy. After a few bites, we all turned red and started sweating. It was so spicy that not only my nose started running, I even got tears in my eyes. My tongue and my lips were numb. At one point I was thinking, "why am I torturing myself this way?" It was THAT spicy, but yet so good and I couldn't stop eating. Dr. P had 3 bowls of rice just with this dish.


毛血旺 Hot Pot Mao Xue Wang ($14.99)

Hot Pot Mao Xue Wang was very similar to Spicy Steam Beef & Fish. Instead of beef and fish, this one was made with internal organs like intestine, tripes, and pig blood. I LOVE this dish even more because I can never get enough intestine. Most restaurants use napa cabbage in those spicy dishes, but this restaurant use Chinese green veggies. I like the vegetables a lot.


麻辣大蟹 Spicy Crab ($34.99) x 2

My friend had to call a day ahead to order two Spicy Crab. She said when they tried to order this dish before, they never had it in stock. The crab was deep fried, then cooked with spicy chili peppers.



The outside was spicy and salty, and the crab meat was soft and sweet. Everybody got quiet for a minute because we were all concentrating on eating the delicious crab.


清炒空心菜 Stir Fried Water Celery ($7.99)

Finally a non-spicy dish to balance it out a little. Stir Fried Water Celery tasted so soothing after all the crazy spicy dishes.


麻辣小龍蝦 Spicy Crawfish ($21.99) x 2

Tammy also had to call in ahead of time to place order for the Spicy Crawfish. She ordered 6 pounds of crawfish. The restaurant served it to us in two big bowls. I don't really thing that was 6 pounds though. It was more like 4 pounds. At first I thought it would taste like the two spicy dishes we had before since it was in a similar looking spicy sauce. But it actually tasted completely different. Tammy said that last time she went to China for a business trip, she tried this Szechuan style crawfish dish and loved it. When she came back to LA, she had been searching for the same dish and finally found it at Haige Star Boulevard. This place made the same authentic dish as the one she had in China. This was so good and addicting! I couldn't stop eating it!


鳳梨蝦炒飯 Pineapple w/ Shrimp Fried Rice ($8.99)

Pineapple w/ Shrimp Fried Rice was made Taiwanese style with meat flakes. It was delicious.


干扁四季豆 Spicy Sauteed Green Bean ($7.99)

Spicy Sauteed Green Bean wasn't spicy at all. Or maybe it was? But after we had those super spicy dishes, this didn't taste spicy at all to us.


椒鹽花枝 Salt & Pepper Squid ($10.99)

Salt & Pepper Squid had oil dripping out of the basket when the waitress brought it to our table. Not just one or two drops, but like a whole cup of oil! We had to use napkin to absorb the oil. The squid had really good flavor, but just too oily.


炸臭豆腐 Fried Odorous Tofu ($7.99)

It was funny how they named the stinky tofu as Fried "Odorous" Tofu. When this dish came out, Dr. P squinted his nose and kept on saying how it smelt like feet. At first he refused to eat it. But I convinced him to try just a little bite. He did, and said it wasn't as bad as he thought. But he still didn't want to eat it after that one bite. He was like that when he first tried intestine. But now he eats intestine like it was nothing. So I'm sure he'll enjoy stinky tofu sometime later. haha.... The fried stinky tofu was done very well here. I love the pickled cabbage and the dipping sauce, too. It tasted really authentic.



It's Sybil's birthday next week. But Jennifer couldn't make it, so she brought a birthday cake for Sybil this time.



I don't know where she got the cake, but she said it was in the same plaza (Hong Kong Supermarket plaza). The chocolate cake was not that sweet, very soft, very moist, and lots of fruit in the cream filling. It was very yummy.



What a feast! There were 10 of us, and the total plus tips came out to be $30/person. We had sooo much food, and a lot of beer, too. We paid for 4 pitcher, and the waitress gave us another one for free. The food was delicious at this restaurant, although it was a bit oily. It wasn't a healthy choice, but if you want healthy food, you shouldn't eat at spicy Chinese restaurant. I would love to come here once in a while, but 4 days in a row like my friends? That was just too crazy! Even though food was good, service definitely needs improvement. Service was a bit slow. Waitresses weren't attentive. We had 10 people, but they often bring us 4 bowls, 7 forks, 8 cups, 3 spoons and 6 plates at a time. It was just strange why they kept on doing that. We always had to ask for more things for them to bring. So why don't they just bring 10 of everything at one time? I still don't quite understand. We saw a lot of people having spicy hot pot and grilled food on sticks. Everything looked good. I think this place open till 1:30am. Later on that night, they dimmed the light, turned up the music volume, and more young people came in to drink beer. But for us old people, it was time to go to bed.



Good friends, good food, and good time! We had such a fun night. :-)

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