"Peking Pavilion (review)" - Asbury Park Press, 11/18/07:

Peking Pavilion is mere months into its new life in its newly rebuilt home in Manalapan, but it's cheek-to-jowl at this modern-day Chinese-American restaurant

Folks are willing to wait — at least an hour — to be seated in the hard-edged dining spaces accented in glass, stone and tile

some enjoying the pan-fried noodles are doing so after "two-and-a-half years of restless craving."

This may not be hyperbole. After the Peking Pavilion suffered a fire a couple years back, rebuilding seemed to take forever.

[T]he Kuo family has resurrected the staples of Peking Pavilion's wildly popular repertoire and added some new dishes. The result, for the most part, is not authentic Chinese food, not focused regional cuisine, but a melange that's uniquely their own. Much of what you eat here is simply delicious, pleasing in a big-bang way.

That luxed-up egg roll, spiked with shards of filet mignon, is oil-free and filled with freshly shredded sprouts and vegetables.

I joined Elizabeth there for lunch a week ago Friday and had an egg roll with my soup.