Red Pearl

Name: Red Pearl
Address: 243 West Valley Ave, Birmingham, AL, 35209, US
Telephone: 205-945-9558
Price range: $$

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243 West Valley Ave, Birmingham, AL 35209
205-945-9558
Last verified: October 2026
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Bao: Soft, slightly sweet steamed yeast buns. Filled versions (baozi) hold barbecued pork (char siu bao), vegetables, custard or red bean; baked char siu bao has a glossy golden crust instead. Unfilled folded buns (gua bao, "lotus leaf buns") come with braised pork belly or Peking duck to stuff at the table. On this menu as: Pork Bun.
Lo mein: Soft, thick egg noodles boiled and then tossed, not fried, with sauce, vegetables and a protein. Where chow mein is about crispness, lo mein is about slippery, sauce-coated noodles. On this menu as: Vegetable Lo Mein.
Fried rice: Day-old rice stir-fried with egg, scallion and whatever the kitchen adds. Yangzhou (Yang Chow) style means shrimp, char siu and peas, and is the version most menus mean by "house special". Good fried rice is dry and separate-grained, never wet. On this menu as: Chicken Fried Rice.
General Tso's chicken: Battered, deep-fried chicken chunks glazed in a sweet, tangy, mildly hot sauce with dried chilies and broccoli on the side. Created by Hunanese chefs in Taiwan and New York in the 1970s; the general it is named for never tasted it. On this menu as: General Tso's Chicken.
Sesame chicken: Crispy fried chicken in a sweet soy-and-honey glaze, showered with toasted sesame seeds. A close cousin of General Tso's without the chili heat, and the reliable choice for a table with kids. On this menu as: Sesame Chicken.
Mongolian beef: Thin-sliced beef flash-fried and tossed with scallions and sometimes onion in a glossy soy-and-brown-sugar sauce, often over crispy rice noodles. Taiwanese-American in origin; nothing to do with Mongolian cooking. On this menu as: Mongolian Beef.

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Fried ricetypically $13.99 across 395 menus
Baotypically $8.95 across 190 menus
Mongolian beeftypically $16.73 across 131 menus
General Tso's chickentypically $15.99 across 113 menus
Sesame chickentypically $15.04 across 112 menus
Lo meintypically $13.95 across 84 menus

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