Written by DCist Contributor Oscar Bunoan We’ve all heard it before. “You’ve got to try this place out. It’s a complete dive but the food is just to die for!” A friend told me about a hole-in-the-wall place in Chinatown, Full Kee, that’s popular with the lunchtime crowd. Is it really? Mythbusters Adam and Jamie should have tried cracking this mystery back in season one, but since they’re in San Francisco, it’s up to me….

Though much of D.C.’s ever-diminishing Chinatown can now be found over in Rockville, a few stalwarts remain to pacify the tourist set with beef and broccoli, while delighting locals with more obscure fare. Eat First, along with Full Kee and Chinatown Express, is part of what we consider the trifecta of D.C.’s great Chinatown dining. The tiny vestibule that leads into the restaurant is festooned with all manner of coloful photocopies of local food media…

Written by DCist Contributor April Fulton. An Asian breakfast of congee, or as the Chinese say, jook, makes a perfect lunch on a blustery day. At Full Kee in Chinatown, you can get a savory, steaming bowl of this rice porridge with pork strips, scallions and 1,000 year old eggs for the low, low, price of $5.95. We know what you’re thinking, who wants to eat old eggs? You do. Trust us. Notwithstanding their…

D.C.’s Chinatown is sometimes referred to as Chinablock. Once a multi-block neighborhood, Chinatown’s identity has been slowly eaten away by the booming Seventh Street corridor and what some refer to as “neighborhood imperialism” from Penn Quarter’s pushers. Although, we don’t think that adding Chinese characters to signage at Hooters, Chipotle and Fado’s has done much to stop Chinatown’s erosion, there is still a good selection of Chinese restaurants and stores along H Street east of…