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Walk in to the pungent smell of ginseng and barrels of goodies like licorice root and oddities like royal jelly ($36 for 75 capsules) at this soothing store on Allston's main drag. E. Shan Tang can satisfy all your Chinese herbal needs, offering hundreds of herbs, teas, and other natural remedies for everything from insomnia to impotence. Browse their selection of Asian books for literature on tai chi and shiatzu to make it up to your partner on the off-chance your herbal remedy doesn't work out. Free qi gong for immunity every M 6:30-7:30pm. AE, D, MC, V. This section contains information from Harvard Student Agencies' Unofficial Guide to Life at Harvard. B.J. Wang is brilliant and I recommend you go to him to get a diagnosis. He does this just by looking at your tongue and taking your pulse. It's amazing/creepy - he tells you what was wrong with you instead of the other way around. Often it's quick to see him as a walk-in, you don't need an appointment or anything. He'll prescribe tea which is expensive, tastes like dirt, but will get you back on track to health. The medicinal pills are cheap if you'd rather do that.

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This Taiwanese restaurant in Allston won't let pork lovers down. The large menu of traditional and fusion Taiwanese and Szechuan dishes is replete with pork intestines and kidneys. For less adventurous Allstonians fried and steamed dumplings are available. Fried ice cream is available for desert. The stinky tofu allegedly really does stink.

A sleek and modern Taiwanese / Chinese restaurant focusing on fresh ingredients and classic dishes. The food is very authentic Taiwanese, and loved by the area Taiwanese community. The smelly bean curd does indeed smell!

Cantonese New Trend Eatery, which recently opened shop on Allston's main drag, avoids the overly-produced sauces so often associated with Chinese cooking and instead serves up lots of crisp veggies and super-fresh spring rolls. The average Allston/Brighton student on a budget could dine for days on the enormous dinner portions. Eat in, take away or call for delivery.

Gitlo's is a dim sum place in Allston devoid of the Chinatown bustle of carts, and with cuisine far better than any of those establishments. It is more of a cooking focused restaurant that's said to impress dim sum snobs; the restaurant prides itself on homemade dishes from scratch. The chef - a cousin of the owner - worked in a Hong Kong dim sum kitchen for 8 years before relocating to Boston, and his flawless technique shows in his handmade shumai, daikon cakes, and Cantonese dumplings.

This small restaurant hosts lip smacking Indo-Chinese food. Except for the small place this restaurant excels in its typical indo-chinese cuisines. Though I haven't tasted its Indian food but I can always bet on its chinese dishes.