5
Type of Business: Restaurant
Cuisine:
Chinese
Price: $$
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Rating Criteria
1. From Scratch: Serves mostly (i.e., more than half of the menu) fresh food, prepared from scratch. Does NOT rely primarily on kits or prepared/partially prepared foods from commercial food services.
Yes
2. Local/Organic: Offers at least some locally sourced and/or organically produced food and/or wild-caught seafood.
No
3. Pastured: Offers at least some pastured animal foods.
No
4. Organs: Offers some dishes made with organ meats (liver/paté, sweetbreads, heart, kidney, brains, etc.).
No
5. Cooking Fats: Cooks (sautés) in natural fats such as butter, lard, tallow, duck fat, coconut oil, or olive oil; uses lard, duck fat, or tallow for frying.
No
Comments: Uses commercial fats, probably
6. Bone Broth: Makes own bone broths/stocks for use in soups, stews, gravies, and sauces (does NOT use canned broth or powdered soup bases).
Yes
Comments: Probably make their own soup bases
7. Seasonings: Makes most of its own seasoning mixes (does NOT use flavoring packets or MSG).
Yes
8. Salad oils: Makes most of its own salad dressings using olive oil or cold-pressed sesame oil.
Yes
Comments: May use good olive oil
9. Breads: Offers genuine sourdough bread.
No
10. Beverages: Offers lacto-fermented beverages (such as kombucha or kvass).
Yes
11. Condiments: Offers lacto-fermented condiments.
No
Comments: offers Japanese whiskey
12. Desserts: Offers desserts made with natural sweeteners (such as raw honey, maple syrup, maple sugar, molasses, date sugar, palm sugar, coconut sugar, sorghum syrup, or malt syrup).
No
Comments: Special - Jolie.Co French Macarons
Rating Created by:
Kris Johnson
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Location & Contact
West Toledo - between Sylvania and Laskey
4424 Secor Rd
Toledo, OH 43623
4424 Secor Rd
Toledo, OH 43623
Jing Chuan, a family owned restaurant with decades of service behind it, might have some of the best Chinese food in the region. The West Toledo restaurant is a little quirky, with traditional Chinese dishes (and a special back page for the most hardcore diners), tiki-style drinks, and house-made French macarons for desert. While the food -- especially the sizzling rice soup and entrees, including the Jing Chuan chicken and Mongolian Stars -- was delicious, the service stole the show.