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Oh Three Happiness .....
You're not going to win any beauty pageants.
And lets face it, the Health Dept isn't giving you any awards anytime soon either.
Minus the ridiculously large Flat screen you wont get any upgrade points either.
But your Beef and Broccoli with Chinese Broccoli (You have to specifically request this) and rice noodles (also special request)!! ooohhh Three Happiness, with just that dish alone I would give you any award you wanted!! What award do you want? How about the Beefy Broccoli award!? Or the My Tummy May Burst From So Much Ridiculously Good Food Award? How about a Grammy? Apparently they give those to anybody these days!
So your service after respectable eating hours is quite slow. And often times I see more people standing around than I do Serving.
And sure its a pain dodging the Gauntlet of Bums just to get inside to eat.
But I forgive you. Keep that Beefy beef and Chinese broccoli coming and we will never have a problem!
This restaurant used to be the highlight of my childhood visits to Chinatown. I would love it when the silver carts pushed by waiters and waitresses in the giant cavernous dining room would slow to a stop with perfectly stacked bamboo steamers piled high atop it's shiny metal cart.
The spring rolls, ha gao (crystal shrimp dumplings in a thick white wrapper) and siu mai (ground pork, shitake mushrooms, and water chestnut dumplings wrapped in a delicate wonton skin) were the staples of my childhood and the giant Three Happiness restaurant was the locale of phenomenal family brunch's and dinners.
A lot has changed since my childhood though. And while the Dim Sum is served all day long now, the portions have shrunk, the quality has deteriorated, the service has withered to bitter women, and the prices have gradually risen.
It is a place for tourists, primarily, and while that is all well and good -- branching out to places like that of Shui Wah and their snug walls and cozy atmosphere have replaced my desire to see that little cart stroll out of the kitchens with their mighty stacks of miniature bamboo steamers.
Dim sum at the original Three Happiness is FANTASTIC. In comparison to the bigger restaurants in Chinatown, this place has VERY reasonable prices and portions that are fit for a king.
And one of my faves in addition to dim sum...get the Beef Chow Fun. VERY tasty.
This place definitely does not skimp on their portions, and the food is very good.
Ambiance-wise...not much that your usual Chinatown restaurants. But who cares when the food is GREAT! Oh, and on the weekends, get there early...it is a VERY small dining room!
There are a few places that are open late after the bars in Chinatown. Why, God, why do people still consider this place? Here's your huge warning: once it gets late enough, they've only got one cook in the back. And usually around 20 or so waiting, hungry, tired drunks in the dining room. This is what you will see if you come in around 2 or 3 in the morning after a weekend night out...and soon you too will be come hungry and tired. I've waited an hour before for food, because you hit that point where you say "we've waited this long already..."
Salt and pepper squid is probably the highlight here, and even that's not that good. Dumplings are ok. Avoid their lemon chicken like the plague, because I believe they cook it in actual black plague. I understand some people come here for nostalgic reasons, but it's time to stop living in the past!
There's only 3 places I consider when it's around 3AM.
This is one of them.
Order the Salt 'N Pepper Squid or Salt 'N Pepper Pork...so good!
(The squid they served didn't have any tentacles, which I thought was a plus.) It's deep fried, and comes with onions and peppers.
The beef chow fun / beef chow mein are satisfactory as well.
It's open late.
It's a hole-in-the-wall.
It's cheap.
Big Portions.
Last time I came here the food tasted like shit, salty as fuck and full of MSG.
Tonight I came again and a friend said to order the food with no MSG. Guess what, tasted just as bad and maybe even worse, still salty as hell. And the meat was not fresh at all. Now I know why they add a shitload of salt and MSG, it's to cover up the stale and rank meat they use. I won't be going back to this dump again.
Three unhappiness!
Three Happiness was recommended by a friend who dines here for dim sum when he visits Chicago. Oddly enough, he took me to a much better place in his native Detroit area before he recommended this
The reheated, pre-cooked dim sum dishes made this a terrible dining experience. The dim sum worth ordering was the chaozhou dumpling and the dry tofu skin roll. For this quality food, the items were severely overpriced at $2-$2.25.
-Fried taro puff - almost passable, but greasy and only came as an order of 2 when the picture showed three.
-Dry tofu skin roll - almost done right, except that they drowned it in bland gravy.
-Chaozhou dumpling - stuffed with meat and peanuts, the noodle cooked just right. I wish i ordered 5 more of this dish instead of the other items.
-Stuffed peppers - bland meat, undercooked green pepper.
-Siu mai - soggy noodle wrapping around bland meat.
-Pork buns - lamentably tasted like they came from a bag from the freezer aisle. We ate one and left the rest on the plate.
-Custard buns - same as above, but at least the filling was ok.
-Turnip cake - cut too thick, not heated the whole way through, had a gross brown-ness to it like it was fried on an unclean surface or using old oil.
The service, despite this, was great. And this is only a review of their dim sum. Perhaps their lunch/dinner is better.
There must be better dim sum in Chicago; again, I had great dim sum in Detroit! How does this place remain so highly rated?
Do yourself a big favor, because you deserve it: Go to Three Happiness (the small one, not the big one) and do the following:
1. Order the salt and pepper smelts (or salt and pepper shrimp, or salt and pepper fish filet...really, anything salt and pepper)
2. Order the black pepper beef chow fun
3. Order the pork/tofu/mushroom soup
4. Make sure they give you lots of steaming hot white rice.
5. Enjoy.
Greasy, weird cart service, bland - but overall SUPER greasy.
True to the Chicago-based culinary bulletin board, I had Sunday dim sum at "Little" Three Happiness. It's a very small restaurant--eight tables total--and dim sum is served by filling out a form. For better or worse, this avoids the time-honored ballet of looking through cart after cart as the server lifts the lid of individual dishes for your ultimate approval or disapproval--not to mention specifically asking if certain items were available only to be told that it would be (really, might be) coming on another cart.
The food is pretty standard dim sum fare with two notable points. First, LTH probably has the best pork shumai I've yet to taste--large in size and delicious through and through. I would also add that their rice wrapped in a lotus leaf was pretty good as well. Second, unfortunately, the menu really seemed to be lacking on an good assortment of bun items and, of what they did have (the BBQ pork buns and custard-filled buns), nothing really stood out. Other items we had included shrimp dumplings, rice noodle rolls, spring rolls, taro cakes, sesame balls, crab rangoon, and another fried roll-type item filled with chicken.
We were wandering through Chinatown and walked into this restaurant on a lark. This food is cheap and great! The buns were a little dry (but 3 for $2 isn't bad), but the pork dumplings and shrimp pancakes were PHENOMENAL. Great cheap dim sum is amazing.
This place wasn't terrible. In the name of full disclosure, it's worth mentioning that I'm a vegetarian, so my options at any authentic Chinese restaurant are bound to be limited. I had Szechuan tofu with mixed vegetables. The tofu tasted good but the texture wasn't fantastic (i.e. not as firm as I would like). The mixed vegetables consisted of baby corn (tasty), pea pods (tasty), and straw mushrooms (unfortunately absolutely gummy, so much so that I didn't notice much about the taste). The Szechuan sauce was good, though as others have stated, a bit oily. I didn't experience what others have said about the food not being warm enough, mine was piping hot when it came out from the kitchen only a few minutes after we ordered. The portions were very large, and three plates were way more than enough food for five people. The tea was good, the rice was good and always replenished, and the Tsingtao lager was nice and cold.
All in all, I've had worse Chinese food, but I've also had better. I would definitely be willing to give this place another try, considering the somewhat legendary status it seems to have, though from where I'm sitting, that seems a bit exaggerated. I'd give it a C.
I often go here for lunch and for five bucks, it can't be beat. the waitress, who is always the same is friendly and the wanton soup is excellent-tasty pork and dumplings. Try the garlic chicken with vegetables. The largest group the restaurant can accommodate is five people and there is no atmosphere to speak of, the plasma TV on the wall with Chinese television doesn't count. Overall, Three Happiness is a bargain stop for lunch. BTW it's open 24 hours.
If you're coming to Chinatown you have to try three happiness. I've been coming here for about 19 years and it always hits the spot. It's a small restaurant so expect a little bit of a wait. And definitely get here in time for dim sum. They have an extensive menu and the servers are really friendly and helpful. One of my favorite classic dishes is the chicken and broccoli with really thin pan fried noodles. Mmmm!
You best try this out!
Went here around 3am on a Saturday night Sunday morning. Rolled in with three of my friends and told the lady to give us the 4 best things they could make (one chicken, one pork, one seafood, one beef) and a round of beers. After a quick consultation with the manager (or some guy who looked like he was in charge) the beer came out and kept coming for the rest of the night. Due to our ordering strategy i dont know what food we got but it was all fantastic. We strolled out at 530am as the sun was coming up filled with food and tsing tsao beer. Great atmosphere, hilarious service (the woman was really amused at our antics i think) and great food.
Came here for a quick bite with friends after a lawyer induction event for my pal. We just ordered way too much but was great. Crab Rangoon, Potstickers, Soft Shell Crab (don't order it), Beef Chow Fun, Beef & Broccoli, Schzechuan Shrimp (did i spell that right?), and some wonton soup/eggdrop soup.
This place was recommended by one of the obviously delusional staff at Rush hospital. My husband and I intended to eat dinner away from the hospital and ended up here. The dining area was as big as my dining room so our plans quickly turned to carryout. Too chaotic and crowded and COLD. We got mongolian beef which tasted like a Lean Cuisine version of Chinese Food.. The sauce was the consistency of pudding. Yes THAT THICK. The eggrolls were just ok. We waited over 45 minutes for $30.00 worth of medicore gloppy gelatinous take out. The veggies were soggy, and the meat had a odd texture. Literally the worst I've ever had. This was suprising as the food being consumed in the dining room looked very good. Im with the other reviewer who said everyone else must have eaten off the eat in menu because the food on peoples tables looked much better than what we ended up with.
I Was starving after Djing last night and I remembered that this place was open late. We drove right down the street and they were welcoming even at 2:45 AM.
We ordered vegetable fried rice and egg foo young with 2 veggie egg rolls. The egg rolls were so damn good. I adore egg rolls I don't know why but I love them and Three Happiness has some of the best egg rolls I have ever had. Also their orange sweet dipping sauce was so good. The rice and egg foo young however were mediocre.
Nothing special with them, but it served the purpose of curing hunger at 3 in the morning.
Ugh, someone posted the wrong photo as the main one for this restaurant (yay, it's been fixed) and I think some of the reviews are incorrect as a result. This is NOT the big "Three Happiness" on the corner of Cermak & Wentworth. That one is technically considered to be on Wentworth and is called "New Three Happiness". This is the little guy on Cermak. BIG difference.
Anyway, this place has lovely weekend dim sum, and you get to order off a checkbox menu (as per most sushi restaurants) while looking at a picture book. The singapore noodles, chicken dumplings, curry chicken dumplings, etc- everything we ordered was absolutely delicious. We were completely taken aback in a really pleasant way.
The noodle dish portions are enormous and we wound up with enough food for dinner tonight, plus we were stuffed. All for under 30 bucks.
I will definitely be going back. The decor is basically...well, nonexistent, but they know how to cook. Seriously delicious, and clearly underrated.
Some of the best Chinese food I've had in Chicago and definitely the best dim sum- better than Phoenix by a long shot.
Hot, fresh, fast, cheap and delicious.
And they even surprised me with an appetizer I'd never had before. I don't remember the exact name of it, but it was a little pocket of fantastic chicken curry inside of a wonton wrapper and fried. Wow. And they have crazy good shrimp toast. Everything else I had was at least good, some very good.
I will totally go back again.
And they're open really late, always a plus!
PS - this picture is WRONG! The pic is for the place across the street, apparently owned by the same people, but these reviews are for the little one across the street.
24 hours...yes...all 24 of them.
So when you are too hard-partied to find yourself in a Chicago PIzza Company timezone, send someone on a Three Happiness run. Their takeout is SO fast, and their large portions can really feed three people.
Nothing makes you feel more metro chic than a Chinese takeout box in your fridge in the early morning. Love that veggie fried rice.
It was a weird experience.
I cannot say that the food wasn't good but I was really surprised by our shrimp and scallop with walnuts dish. I asked it without MSG and it came out with a ton of mayonnaise on it...the seafood was high quality, the walnuts were delicious but the mayo really killed the deal for me. The orange peel beef was ok (this is not my favorite but you have to compromise, don't you) and the bok choy was actually perfectly cooked. Another bad point for me was the temperature of the food - way too cold.
I am confused....I guesss I will have to try it again. We came for the clams in black bean sauce and they didn't have it - which was a big disappointment. We went there on a Monday night around 7:30 and it was empty.
Oh how I miss this place!
Nothing fancy. An eat and run place. Forget ambiance.
Wow is the food delicious!
Awesome Cantonese food.
Great prices!
What else can you ask for? Oh yeah, open a branch in New York or New Jersey area.
Notables.
1. Salt and pepper Pork chops
2. Shrimp in Scrambled eggs
3. Salt and pepper Shrimp
4. Young Chow (House Special) Fried rice
5. Stir fried baby clams
6. Fresh squid with sour greens
7. Hong Kong steak
Yum!
I am baffled for why people come here. The food scares me to say the least. I have not had one meal in which I have enjoyed during it or afterwards (It makes my tummy hurt). The service is descent at best, but what saves this restaurant is its location. It is hard to miss, but my advice for you is to not be too lazy and travel half a black into Original Chinatown, there you will find numerous restaurants that are THAT much better. Please, you owe it to yourself to eat at least descent Chinese food...
WTF?!?
I'm blown away by all of the positive reviews of this place. Really very average at best.
The best thing we ordered was the egg rolls. The chicken fried rice was pretty good too. The pot stickers were gummy. The Mongolian beef tasted very generic, like opening up a frozen dinner. My wife got the orange chicken. The sauce was neon orange (from what ingredient?). There was no discernible spice. Actually, the sauce tasted like sweet & sour sauce with an extra dose of orange. Sad.
Is everyone else ordering off of the eat-in menu. We got the take out. Seriously?
This place rocks, Zagat rated too!! Its always busy, a very small restaurant but excellent food.Good value for money too, if I say so myself.
Parking is conveniently available in the parking lot across.Its just a short trot ( 2 minutes) from the restaurant.Forget street parking, you will never find a decent spot.
I have been frequenting this restaurant since 2000. We(hubby and I) head out to Chinatown specially to eat here ( I live in the NW burbs) Some of my favorite dishes are
1. Clams with Jalapenos and black bean
2. Deep Fried Chicken
3. Beef with Tofu
4. Rice noodles with Beef and Chinese Broccoli
5. Salt and Pepper Shrimp
6.Hot and Sour soup
7. Sole with Yu toy (absolutely awesome, my 3 year old nephew loves it)
8. Cantonese style noodles with seafood ( 3 year old nephew approved)
9. Beef tendon with bok choy
10. Watercress soup with pork or fish ball
The dim sum is ok in my opinion. I do not care for the fried rice, way too much soy sauce for my liking. Its BYOB; which is good, the glasses for some reason look greasy ONLY to me, maybe time to ring my optermetrist.
This is by no stretch of imagination a romantic place, the place can get very noisy.Be prepared to wait on the weekends esp between 6-8pm.Usually the wait is about 20 minutes( average).They are open till the wee hours of the morning, something ridiculous like 3am!
Enjoy!
Their dumplings along with their beef and brocoli with fried noodles are amazing......however the intersection is of course confusing because there is multiple of them named three happiness around here....just look for the smaller one...i believe they have the correct picture of the one up now....amazing!
Wow they give a lot of food! We ordered waaay too much and had a bunch of left overs. Food was good
Five stars for the Three happiness. This food made my tummy very happy. I had the b-bq pork that was in a soy sauce. You could actually taste the meat. Then I had the egg drop soup. It was very tasty. The most awsome part of the meal was the beef fried rice, Bangkok style. It tasted so fresh and flavorful. I left there feeling like a million bucks. My only complaint is that they didn't give us a fortune cookie. I saw one on the floor, so I know they had them. What's up with that?
I had a pretty good experience here. Food was alright, but not the best either.
My acquaintance and I had the crab rangoon, pot stickers, beef in satay sauce, beef fried rice, and walnut shrimp. The crab rangoon was delicious, as was the pot stickers and beef fried rice. My acquaintance complained that the walnut shrimp was a tad soggy (i thought it was fine), and the satay beef was a tad too salty (i agree). Service was great, however.
Also, it seems like people are putting their reviews for the other Three Happiness across the street in this one. This review is for the small Three Happiness.
I love this place for late nite chinese food. My friend is a fan of chinese food so this is one of the few places we love and they also have later hrs. The orange chicken is so good. The place is an ok size. They have a round table that sits like 10 i think. The servers are ok for the most part. The portion like all chinese foods are huge and prices are reasonable. They have tea in your table which is awesome. They have beer so for those who love chinese food w/ a beer this is your place.
We, a party of 4, went on a Saturday morning around 10:30 am to beat the crowd. Surely enough, we were seated right away and carts began coming around rather frequently and satisfied our appetite.
The dim sum here was very good, but not necessarily superb (I've had MUCH better in NYC's Flushing.... ahh, Ocean Jewel...). Prices are comparable to other venues I've visited. Service was rather attentive and friendly. I really appreciated the wait staff's attention to our fast-emptying tea pot, in particular.
They've also got a nice variety of bubble teas. Bravo!
Wow. I haven't stepped foot into this place since 2002. The staff certainly keeps the carts rolling but the food is mediocre, at best. We felt that the food was too oily in comparison to all the other places we've tried. A hole-in-the-wall, such as Shui Wah, serves less slippery food.
Validated parking across the street. Bring in your parking ticket for a stamp.
omg, i just ate a massive amount of beef chow fun. it was sooooooo good!
right now symptoms are:
unbuttoned pants (i should just nix em all together)
shortness of breath
euphoric vision
heavy eyelids
im a little dude, but when it comes to chow fun from this joint, i get down to business. ive had various dishes here and theyre all amazing. i usually hit this spot up with my brother in law bc he always orders like 4 random dishes and we all just share em. open super, super late. ive driven by here around 4am and it was semi packed. go try the chow fun. idk about you but i like to get my noodles extra cripsy. mmmmm...
funny story time...
i was there once with my sister and bro-in-law and their baby. i walked in as i met them up and my sister whispers to me, "look who that is over there."
it was James Hong. http://www.imdb.com/na...
he was in town filming something. so were kinda just like whatevs. as hes walking out we notice him get up w/ 2 other people. as he walks by he says to my sister,"cute baby" (see photo of niece eating burrito bowl)
so my sister starts chatting him up like she knows him. shook his hand and he asked what movies do we know him from. i immediately blurt out, "WAYNES WORLD 2", and he started to laugh. my bro in law said Seinfeld. he talked to us for like a minute or 2 and as he left he said, "SEINFELD, FOUR!" hahahahahaha! i couldnt believe he said that.
awesome. if you dont know where that's from....
http://en.wikipedia.or...
alrighty. thats that. naptime.
We picked up dim sum to go. It was mediocre by Chinatown standards. We hadn't been here for anything in a long time, like 20 years, but thought we'd give a try. The carryout wait was also long at about 30 minutes when we were told 15 minutes. The restaurant appeal suffered a bit on this cold day, as it seemed there were a couple of folks kind of loitering at the entry to stay in from the cold. They were possibly waiting for a bus, with the Cermak St bus stop only a few steps away. There are other places to go to.
If you've been to Chinatown, you've been to Three Happiness. It's a rule. Right as you hit Chinatown, local officials are set up to direct you to the location. In fact, you'll receive numerous citations from said officials if you DON'T try this place out.
With that being said, this place is good. I came here for a function with my sorority back in the hay day of 2002 and I'm sure it's just as good today as it was back then. The hot and sour soup is good. This I remember. :) I remember having assorted appertizers, too. They were delicious (names escape me). I also remember having sweet and sour chicken atop white rice. Pretty standard.
By the way, they do accomodate larger groups I know some places are too lazy and picky and won't move tables around...
Those places can ROT for all I care.
This is a place that should be known to plenty of chicagoans. I have been there many late nights and have always enjoyed the food that was given to me. I like the fried rice which is always good, the soup was good, and the curry I order always hits the spot. I can't go any higher than 3 stars because the place is super small, but still feels a little grimy. I eat there because it is open late, and fills you up. There is a lot of different people who go there, which is a good thing but at the same time a bad thing because I have run into some shady people which obviously I did not like. The food bring be back time and time again because I leave satified and full. Go there late at night when you don't care what you eat, or where you are sitting, but be ready for a good meal, if you know what you like and what they serve. It's trial and error sometimes. Hope you enjoy!
Been to Chinatown at a minimum of once per year (Christmas, my tribal tradition) for the past 13 years I've lived in Chicago and have tried MANY different restaurants but never really had a favorite one like when I lived in Manhattan (and used to go to Woh-Hop in Chinatown or Empire Szechuan on the Upper West Side). Well 'Three Happiness' was a nice change from what I've experienced here (and I have walked out of some restaurants because of lousy service or food). I decided to go there exclusively because of the YELP reviews. The food here was VERY good, inexpensive and service was excellent. The woman in the dining area worked the room like a shark surrounding a school of bait fish-picking up empty plates, refilling water and bussing tables as soon as they opened up. Here's MY review of the food we ordered;
BBQ Ribs-OK, but probably would try something different next time-they did sit in a good sauce.
Egg Rolls-Good but NO COMPARISON to the worlds best Egg Rolls which are served at Kow Kow on (Pratt & Skokie Blvd.)
Seaweed Soup-My wife and 5 yr old son said it was GREAT.
Eggdrop Soup-VERY GOOD! should have ordered a single size instead of a small-oh well, it reheated great in a double boiler last night.
Salt & Pepper Beef Ribs-WOWWOWWOW!!! Awesome Crispy rib slices in fresh onions & jalapenos. I WILL get this dish EVERY TIME I go back.
Chicken & String Beans-Another great dish-White Meat chicken and PERFECTLY COOKED fresh string beans. A very tasty meal.
Shrimp Fried Rice-Good, nothing that much better than other places.
TsingTao-COLD and refreshing!
OK, now for the bad part-the bathrooms, at least the mens room-No heat, wet floor, broken urinal and worst barely a trinkling of water coming out of the sink to wash your hands! Just a total shadow on an otherwise good experience.
So that's my take on the joint. I definitely suggest it and look forward to trying other highly rated YELP reviewed restaurants.
Chicago's Chinatown stretches for just a few short blocks. You can see the Sears Tower and it's a 15 minute walk from McCormick Place. But when I'm there it feels like I'm halfway around the globe and I have an almost uncontrollable urge to act like an unmitigated tourist.
My friend Mike and I did just that last week. We both have been to Chinatown several times. We even have favorite restaurants. He's introduced me to Double Happiness, at the far end of Wentworth past all the stores. Last week I introduced him to mine: Three Happiness on the south side of Cermak, or as it's affectionately known in foodie circles, Little Three Happiness. (Big Three Happiness is across the street. There's even an online forum of almost maniacal culinary zealots named after this little space of dim sum nirvana. LTH Forum formed after a few foodies were frustrated with Chowhounds, and Little Three Happiness , a.k.a. LTH, is one of those little-known spots they cherish.)
Normally we'd take the red line, since it stops right in Chinatown, but Mike was driving that day. As we turned down Wentworth a hearse laden with flowers led a funeral procession that was going the opposite direction and stretched entirely down the street. Amazingly, we found a spot half a block south of Cermak. And, amazingly, the meter was a quarter for an hour.
LTH is a tiny storefront restaurant. There are two big round tables in the center, a couple of tables against the wall on the right, and four or five on the left. To open the door to the ladies room you have to close the hallway door first, because there just isn't enough space. A flat screen TV plays Chinese shows.
When we first entered Mike was dismayed because none of the diners were Asian. I told him not to worry. We were seated quickly and given the regular menus, a lunch menu, and a dim sum menu.
I think he wanted to put my favorite to the test. He ordered steamed buns with chicken, crabmeat pork dumplings, shrimp toast, fried sticky rice, chicken barbecue pork pancake wrap, and coconut mochi. And those were just the dim sum! I also ordered the hot and sour soup and broccoli with beef for an entree, while he had the chicken satay. Yes, this was for lunch, and yes, there were just two of us. At $1.50 - $1.60 apiece for the dim sum - cheaper than a large coffee at Starbucks - we thought "why not?"
At LTH, they just bring the stuff out when it's ready. There was a steady stream of food until our table was full. Quick recap: the shrimp toast is AWESOME, the crabmeat pork dumpling is a wonderfully simple concoction of meat wrapped in a thin pastry, the fried sticky rice has a surprise filling of pork, the steamed buns with chicken have too much bun, and the chicken barbecue pork pancake wrap's wrap has a texture that's too much like raw squid. (I didn't try the mochi because I don't like coconut but he said it was OK.)
The hot and sour soup is, appropriately, hot and sour. My mom and I think hot and sour soup is a good indication of the quality of a Chinese restaurant. Since LTH is our favorite, you can guess what I think of the soup.
Each entree, at $3.95, was enough for two people. Both were tender and flavorfull and delicious and just thinking of them is making me hungry.
Total bill, for all of the above plus tea, soda, and one beer: $25.97
As we left, Mike said he'd found a new favorite. Score one for The Local Tourist.
To read about the rest of our day in Chinatown, please visit http://thelocaltourist...
I really agnoised over this one. On one hand, the food was tasty. On other, my mapo tofu wasn't 100% authentic, yet this place seems to cater to the authentic. In the end, I decided to give them the benefit of doubt and review them more favourably.
The food here is quite good, though not quite cresting that bit to become spectacular. The decor, on the other hand, is 100% cheap Chinese. What they have going for them is that you get a fair amount of food for the price. I'd be interested in trying out their non-Szechuan dishes, as they seem to specialise in Cantonese and Pekinese cuisines.
Neighborhood: Chinatown
Category: Chinese
Neighborhood: Chinatown
Category: Dim Sum
Neighborhood: Chinatown
Category: Dim Sum
Neighborhood: Chinatown
Category: Dim Sum
Neighborhood: Chinatown
Category: Chinese
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