content: I rated Beijing two stars because the food was well prepared.\n\nI tried the Spicy Seafood Noodle Soup.  The seafood: shrimp, squid, 1 mussel, as well as the vegetables and noodles were all properly cooked; that is not overcooked to the point of being unchewable or boiled into a mushy pablum.  The problem was that the soup tasted like colored water.  I doused the bowl with additional chile sauce, with more and more salt, with white pepper, and still the broth swirled in the bowl like insipid, unsteeped tea.\n\nI also sampled the Cashew Chicken.  The dish boasted the same attributes, but suffered from the same irremedial flaw: lack of flavor.  Oh, the portion was huge, piled with cashews, but in spite of the colorful vegetables, the thin darkly colored sauce tasted very much like the soup broth.\n\nThis is a family restaurant, everyone but the dishwasher seems related.  We were seated promptly, of course, only one other person, aside from the entire restaurant staff sat in the restaurant.\n\nOur table lacked forks or napkins, which the server did not bring, when she served the appetizer.  I finally had to rob the set-ups from another table.  I did this as the seated hostess watched with obvious ennui.\n\nI wouldn't go back, especially since Pin Kaow, a superb Thai restaurant, sits right up the street.