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Posted: 12:00 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013

FLAVOR PROFILE: 5-Spice, Boca Raton

Asian street food served fast and fresh

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The Ming Dynasty Duck Wraps at 5-Spice Asian Street Market in Boca Raton cost $7.99 for three wraps filled with slices of tender roast duck meat, accompanied with scallions, cucumber and Hoisin sauce. (Photo by Libby Volgyes/Special to the Palm Beach Post)
Asian street food served fast and fresh photo
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The Singapore Noodles with Chicken ($8.49) from 5-Spice Asian Street Market in Boca Raton. (Photo by Libby Volgyes/Special to the Palm Beach Post)
Asian street food served fast and fresh photo
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The 5-Spice Asian Street Market in Boca Raton serves up fast, tasty and affordable variety of Asian dishes. (Photo by Libby Volgyes/Special to the Palm Beach Post)

By Libby Volgyes

The 5-Spice Asian Street Market is the sort of spot you can slip into on a 45-minute lunch break and actually have time to eat. And there’s a lot to be said for that alone. But the fast-casual spot is also attractive, with a wide variety of Asian street foods and reasonable prices – very few items on the menu are more than $10.

Throw in the tasty food and bubble tea and you’ve got a winning combination.

“In Asia, we have a lot of street food stalls,” said Chee Piong, 5-Spice’s director of franchise development. “The concept is the food itself all comes from that street food stall concept.”

That’s street food, as in the Ming Dynasty Duck Wraps ($7.99 for three), tender roasted duck rolled into soft flour “tortillas” with crisp scallions and cucumbers and a nice, contrasting Hoisin sauce – just enough sauce to give it flavor, without making the roll soggy.

“It gets to the table pretty quickly,” Piong said of the duck wrap trio. “It’s very tasty and unique.”

The eatery offers a variety of Asian dishes from noodles ($8.49 to $9.49) to noodle soups ($7.99), salads to wok rice bowls ($8.49 to $9.49) or the new Vietnamese Bahn Mi sandwich ($5.99, introductory price). The dishes are seasoned with restraint – the pho wasn’t too salty, the Mongolian beef wasn’t too spicy.

Diners order at the counter and minutes later the food is brought to their table, ensuring they’re fed and out the door quickly. And if the diners show the same eating restraint the kitchen does with the seasoning, they could be leaving with leftovers, as all the servings are more than generous for the average diner. (One noodle dish makes two to three meals). But then again the Singapore Noodles ($8.49) are so tasty, I’m not sure it’s possible to put the chopsticks down.

The 5-Spice Asian Street Market: 1200 Yamato Road, #A1, Boca Raton; 561-989-1688; open Monday through Friday, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 12 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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