Tokyo Peking Express

Tokyo Peking Express operates out of Midway Plaza on North University Drive in Tamarac, one of the busier commercial corridors running through the city. The restaurant has been serving this stretch of University Drive for about two decades, and the name itself signals what makes it a little different from a standard neighborhood Chinese restaurant. The menu blends Chinese takeout staples with Japanese sushi and a run of Cajun style seafood dishes, giving customers a wider range of options than most single cuisine restaurants nearby.

The sushi is prepared on site, and the restaurant highlights that the rolls are made in view of customers who are dining in rather than assembled somewhere out of sight. That combination, Chinese entrees on one side of the menu and a sushi bar on the other, is a format more common in strip mall restaurants that need to appeal to a broad cross section of a neighborhood rather than a single niche audience. The Cajun seafood dishes round things out further, giving the restaurant a menu that reads less like a single cuisine and more like a general seafood and Asian food restaurant built for a plaza that serves a mixed residential area.

Hours run late into the evening most nights of the week, which matters in a corridor where a lot of nearby restaurants close by 9 or 9:30. Monday through Thursday the restaurant is open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., stretching to 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and running a shorter midday to evening schedule on Sunday. That kind of late availability makes Tokyo Peking Express a workable option for anyone who ends up looking for dinner after a normal kitchen would have already closed.

Delivery is available directly through the restaurant for a flat fee within a roughly three mile radius, with a minimum order requirement, which is a fairly standard setup for an independent restaurant handling its own delivery rather than routing everything through a third party app. Dine-in and takeout are both available as well, and the restaurant accepts the major credit cards. The plaza location comes with a parking lot and wheelchair accessible entry, practical details for a restaurant serving a corridor with a lot of older residents living nearby.

Tokyo Peking Express is a good example of the kind of restaurant that fills a specific need in a Florida strip mall, a single kitchen that can turn out Chinese food, a sushi order, and a plate of Cajun shrimp on the same night without customers having to choose between three separate restaurants. For anyone in the University Drive corridor of Tamarac looking for a late dinner option that covers more ground than a standard takeout menu, this is a restaurant worth knowing about. It has stayed in the same plaza for years and built a menu wide enough to cover most of what a mixed group of diners might want on a given night.