May Flower

Elite '08

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Mike O.

Park Ridge, IL

I used to work with a Taiwanese engineer about 10 years ago who came here almost daily and said this place was the closest to home-made Chinese food. I never wanted to try it until today. Since I was at the nearby Kinko's, I walked over from to try May Flower for the first time. The restaurant is in the strip mall with the Jewel-Osco on the corner of Foster & Pulaski.

Inside, it's rather plain and seems like it could be a little cleaner. A giant light box on the wall shows a photo of a huge Chinese temple. The chairs looked nicer than fast food restaurant seating, but seemed a bit dingy too. Otherwise, the interior of the place is pretty bare and it could use a paint job or facelift.

I have established General Tso's chicken as my baseline standard for measuring Chinese food, ever since I had it at Dragon Inn. Lucky for me, they had it as one of their nearly 30 lunch combo specials. And since they had fresh fruit smoothies featured on their window, I thought I'd try one - strawberry.

While I was there 2 other people came in to place orders or pick up phone orders. Then a whole family with kids walked in. And you know what... everybody ordered a smoothie too! It was delicious! A big, maybe 22 oz. cup of pureed strawberries with smoothly blended slush containing  shreds of real strawberries and tiny seeds, not sugary syrup and fake coloring mix. They also have pineapple, mango and banana among other flavors. Now this smoothie came with one heck of a sturdy straw too. It had to be almost 1/2-inch round and was made of a thicker plastic. Without explaining fluid dynamics theory I studied at Purdue, let's just say it maximizes smoothie throughput when you suck it down and keeps the straw from collapsing from the vacuum pressure.

The meal came a few minutes later, heaping with chicken fried rice, an egg roll and my Tso's chicken. Nothing spectacular. I thought the sauce was a bit gummy and the flavor not quite as savory as I've had elsewhere. Still, the serving size was huge and I didn't eat that much before I felt full. I had quite a bit left over for later.

If anything, I'm definitely coming back for more smoothies at this place.

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Elite '08

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jessica c.

Chicago, IL

May Flower is fast and reliable. Service is just fine and prices are right.

Favorites: chicken wings, Mongolian beef, pan-fried noodles.

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Elite '08

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Amanda P.

Pawtucket, RI

I avoided this place for a while because it looks a little scuzzy, but the food is really good.  It's one of those typical Fujianese takeout places with the pictures of the food above the counter.  

I'm a big fan of the vegetable egg rolls.  They have cabbage and mushrooms in them.  Last night we ordered the yushan tofu and the vegetable lo mein.  the lo mein came out looking like chow fun or squiggly ramen noodles stir fried with lots of veggies, but it was still good, if different from what I was expecting.  If you want lo mein, order "Mandarin fried noodles."

This is a great place to order from if you need something quick and cheap.

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5

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Christopher M.

Chicago, IL

Great good, but it is really a take-out place. They do have seating, but just card-table style setups. Also, check your order before you leave. They've made mistakes in the past.

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John F.

Chicago, IL

Good Chinese carryout and delivery with clean open kitchen.  Extremely fast service and enormous portions for ridiculously low prices.  Hot and sour soup and singapore noodle are very good here.  Eggs rolls could be better.

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3

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Dionna R.

Chicago, IL

Yum.
Another hole in the wall restaurant with pretty gosh-darn good food.
Great potstickers.....delicious.
My favorite is the General Tso chicken.
Not bad at all.

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4

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Valerie S.

Chicago, IL

Great carry out chinese!  There are soooo many dishes that are great.  Hot and sour soup, song tong beef, curry chicken, and kung pao chicken just to name a few

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