Re: Seattle-ites: need recommendation for Chinese restaurant

Sheldon wrote:
On Sep 13, 3:29�pm, George <geo...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sheldon wrote:
aem wrote:
Sheldon wrote:
A friend is visiting Seattle *today* (arrived 8:30 AM), can anyone
recommend a Chinese restaurant?
When I used to stop in Seattle on the way to and from Alaska I had
several great meals at Wild Ginger. It's still going strong, as far
as I know. Menu is not just Chinese, but has a number of Southeast
Asian dishes as well. If your friend is looking for an ordinary old-
fashioned kind of Chinese-American place, there's a little Chinatown
area where there are several such places. Wild Ginger is more up to
date and upscale. Their website is wildginger.net. -aem
Wild Ginger definitely looks upscale (ie. expensive), seems to need
reservations too, and they don't publish their menu at their web site,
tells me $uper Expen$ive. �I know my friends are looking for the
American style Chinese restaurant, they'll probably pick one in
Seattle's Chinatown, I just wish someone could recommend one or two...
in my experience Chinatown restaurants are either excellent or stink,
and there's no way for an out of towner to know until it's too late.
Why not? Even when I am in another country I have always received
reliable results by wandering around in C-town or J-town or K-town and
just asking the locals.

It's a stop over on the return from an Alaska cruise so they won't
have time to experiment. �To me <kaukaubbq.com> looks excellent, I
read through their entire menu and it left me salivating, I wish I
were there, I'd want to try everything on the menu, looks very
moderately priced too, which is how it should be, like how much should
a rice/noodle dish w/pork-chicken cost anyhow... I wouldn't want to
buy the dishes and furnishings, I'd just want to eat the food.
First indication for me not to go there is that they take credit cards.
I always look for the mom & pop family places for a great meal just like
the one we had at a Malaysian Chinese place on Allen St in NYC C-town
this past Thursday. The check for four people was just over $50 and we
had great dishes like asam laksa, kangkung belecan, roti telur and beef
rendang.

Now that was real helpful. Thanks.

It works for me and that is why I suggested how I find good places when I have no clue. Thats how I found the Malaysian place I mentioned and the Lanzhou hand pulled noodle place before that and the great authentic Korean place in K-town and the hand pulled lamb noodle soup place before that and the dumpling and sesame pancake place before that. Places that make really great food have a few things in common, they never take credit cards, they rarely advertise, rarely have a web site but yet the locals know where they are. No different than asking "where can I get great pizza?"
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