penguinbar

Land on 81st and 2nd has amazing Thai food

Ridski

Hi Englishmum! Hope everything's going well out there in Singapore. Yes, I've been to Republic, and it was great. I think I've also been to that Chinese restaurant on Elizabeth, but couldn't find a menu in English, so ended up skipping it. Can't go to Chinatown without getting bubble tea from what used to be Saint's Alp, though. Awesome stuff. Could go a pint now, actually.

Patrick Hasler

When I fancy a chinky take out in the Yonkers / Bronx area I call some place up that does really good grub, as good as the English ...... unfortunately the menu along with address is in my truck across the street and I am not going out at this time of night to get it .... I could get attacked by a bear or something

If I remember tomorrow I will wander over and then PM the number to you.

Circus-of-Power

The Chinese food in central Illinois is awful....from the large buffet style places to the small family run takeaways....English Chinese bland ???... WTF ....they daren't spice any of the food up around here ...the farmers can not handle it.The menu's are like a trip back to the 1970's ...One local place lets you spice your food on the 1-5 scale (5 obviously being the hottest)....last time we went,I ordered it #8 hot and it was still not searing the tastebuds....thank the Lord for Sriracha hot sauce
Don't even get me going on about Indian food :curse:

penguinsix

In NY somewhere in midtown / East side there is an 'Indian-Chinese' place that makes Chinese food like they have it 'localized' in India. I'll try to get the name of it but I hear it's quite an adventure.

Ridski

Well, I work around there, so if you find it out, I'll try to check it out, too.

Bill_S

I have an Indian co-worker who was able to find "Indian Chinese" in Toronto recently. She misses it, and there's no such place in Cleveland.

bugman

i must admit i find the americanised chinesefood pretty bad, well its not that it tastes bad as such, its just a whole lot of fat and sugar in one sitting, only the very plain 'moo goo gai pan' seems like a healthy choice in our local.

In the chicago area ive tried a few more traditional places like the hong kong cafe in schaumburg, you can get something not sweet and with lots of leafy vegetables!

of course china town in chicago is great too. The 'jockey wok and rolls' in schaumburg is good for dim sum, as far as i can tell its pretty authentic, well assuming that a place filled with chinese customers supposes anyway.

another great place for asian food is the mitsuwa japanese supermarket in arlington heights, aside from the suprisingly big grocer store the food court has really good korean/japanese ramen/chinese dim sum/soups/japanese tempura stalls. actually i think thedim sum stall is provided for by jockey wok and rolls as mentioned above (its called the jockey express in mitsuwa) interestingly theres also a bakery in the building that does some really good euro style pastries (and more typically asian style bean buns etc) and some suprisingly soft sliced breads.

you can pick and chose bit from several of the stalls which is handy as you can have a bowl of pretty autentic ramen (the ramen stall is very popular) and some chines dim sum next to it.

if im in the area i always go in and get salt ramen and a bowl of fermented soy beans (netto) which has an amazing texture like glue, its really very good.