We’re very excited about our brand new dine-in and takeout menus, which feature more than a dozen new menu items.  We’ve been working on some of the recipes for months and are very excited to share them with you.

Click the image above for a link to a PDF copy of our takeout menu.

After one weekend on tables, popular hits among diners include our new Mock Duck’s Nest, Coconut Curry Vegetables and our Coconut Shrimp appetizer.

Also coming soon are SUNDAY HOURS!  And a BEER AND WINE MENU!  Stay tuned!

As a result of this health information and our own personal commitment to the health of ourselves (see below) and our customers, Red Moon is now offering brown rice as a substitution for white rice.

Brown rice is just like white rice, but with its healthy, outer parts still intact. Image courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/photos/rob-qld/ and used under a Creative Commons 2.0 license.

Brown rice is basically the same white rice you may be used to eating — only it still has its “healthy parts” intact.  The brown rice is white rice’s unrefined cousin.  It has its fibrous shell intact — helping with digestion and slowing the rise in glucose associated with white rice.

The fresh evidence comes by way of a new Harvard research study.  The findings support the hypothesis that eating more whole grains helps stave off health threats like diabetes.  In fact, among study participants, those who ate 5+ servings of white rice weekly are 20 percent more likely to develop diabetes.  But those who ate 2+ servings of brown rice a week are 10 percent less likely to develop diabetes.

Now whether this is a correlation or causation is still up for debate.  But the evidence suggests that eating more brown rice might be beneficial — especially if you eat a lot of white rice right now.

The timing on this study is really quite impeccable.  A member of our family has just been told to cut back on white rice consumption — as he is a pre-diabetic.  We’ll be eating more brown rice to see if that, along with some more exercise, helps lower the numbers associated with diabetes.

While we’re at it — feel free to give brown rice a try for yourself!

Red Moon Chinese Cafe offers amazing food at affordable prices for graduation open houses of all sizes.  Please don’t hesitate to call and ask us about custom orders or for individual catering trays purchased a la cart.

Delivery options, Sunday orders and all questions may be answered by calling Ben Kwan at 612-306-8058 or emailing Ben@RedMoonChineseCafe.com

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We offer affordable and abundant choices for graduation party catering in Eden Prairie, MN. Contact Red Moon Chinese Cafe to plan your party today. Call Ben Kwan at 612-306-8058. Delivery options available.

Tat, Alex and Justin Kwan atop the Great Wall of China at Mu Tian Yu.

Hey everyone — just wanted to let you know that my dad says hello from China… and Happy Chinese New Year!

Tat Kwan was able to sneak away from Red Moon in February to experience Chinese New Year in China for the first time since he left his home country in 1972.  It’s been a great experience so far.  During his first trip to Beijing, dad was able to see the Great Wall and other sights like the Forbidden City.

Interestingly, he did some of his own cooking in China.   While staying at Justin Kwan’s apartment in Beijing, Tat cooked some of his famous Shrimp in Lobster Sauce — as Justin had been missing his dad’s cooking a lot during his years living in China.

So local Red Moon fans… consider yourselves lucky.  You get to eat the stuff whenever you want!

Eden Prairie Chamber Ambassadors came to Red Moon in January to welcome us to the chamber. Photo Credit: Laura Muenchow, EP Chamber

Just wanted to share this picture and give our thanks to the Eden Prairie Chamber Ambassadors who came to welcome us to the chamber last month.  It was so nice meeting you all and getting such a warm welcome to the community of local entrepreneurs and business people.

Hopefully we’ll see many more chamber members as we become more involved in the programs and events in the months to come.

Thanks again!

Ben and Tat Kwan's "Panko and Coconut-Crusted Sole atop Coconut Curried Veggies"

We’ve been having a lot of fun back in our kitchen developing a few new dishes.  We aren’t exactly sure when they will hit the menu, but we’d be more than happy to share them with you if you ask about them.  Consider them “top secret” items that only you know about.  Ask your server to ask Ben or Tat Kwan if this Panko and Coconut Crusted Sole atop Coconut-Curried Vegetables can be prepared for you.

We shared this dish with a good friend and longtime customer last Saturday.  She had nothing but great things to say about the dish.  So go ahead… if it looks good to you, ask if you can try it!

We’re also working on some chicken lettuce wraps, a Chinese chopped chicken salad and some other things as well.

What a year…strike that… what a decade it has been!  As we read some of the decade-in-review pieces being published right now, we can’t help but wonder how we made it through.  But we’re not that naive.  We made it through because of our huge base of incredibly loyal customers.  We know who you are.  And we appreciate your business.  So here’s to you!  And here’s to the next decade!

Make sure you take advantage of our online coupons.  Click on the “coupons” link above.

Many more new customers seem to be coming to us lately (loving the food, of course) and telling us, “so and so sent me.”  It’s clear to us that word-of-mouth marketing is quite possibly our best tool for drumming up new business.

Which got us thinking — how could we reward our loyal, frequent customers who are sending their friends, family and colleagues our way?

Click the image to download our latest coupons, including one you can use to refer a friend and earn a $5 gift certificate for doing so. Your friend gets a free appetizer!

Well, we think we’ve got a small way we can say thank you — if you check out the latest deals posted on our coupons page, there’s one you can use to refer a friend.

Here’s how it works:

1) You write your email address (and name, I suppose) on the coupon.

2) Give a Red Moon newbie the coupon — he or she can use it for a free order of egg rolls, cream cheese wontons or potstickers — with no purchase necessary, even!

3)  Your friend redeems the coupon with your email address — which we use to contact you — telling you that we have a FREE $5 Gift Certificate waiting for you at the front counter.   You can come use it whenever you’d like!

It’s pretty easy — someone new discovers amazing Chinese.  And you get a thank you from us for making that happen.

One of our regular "lunch gangs" from nearby GE Capital arrived at Red Moon one day with their own Red Moon T-shirts! (photo courtesy of Berry Mack)

This summer, a bunch of our lunchtime friends from nearby GE Capital surprised us — each of them wearing a special outfit.  Check out the picture — they’re all wearing Red Moon Chinese Cafe t-shirts — that one of them made himself!  Isn’t that nice?  It really humbles us to see this kind of support and loyalty from our regulars — each and every one of you.  Thank you!  We’re holding on in this tough economy because of each of you!  

Thanks for the participation, it’s one of the great things about having this forum.