Seriously though, since this thread has been revived, any other good/bad Chinese restaurant stories out there?

Also, anybody ever tried Szechuan Cottage in south campus? It seems just like No. 1 if you ask me.

pixlfarmer wrote I gotta side with Chinese Village. I had quite a few great meals there on the cheap while I was in school. Some of their noodle dishes were incredible, and I never had a bad experience.

No. 1 Chinese however is dogfood. And although I’m a fan of MiMi Cafe, last time I went (several months back) they did have a yellow note from the health dept on the front door.

I gotta say my all-time fav campus Chinese was Moys.

+1 for Moys.

Still make trips back to campus just for them.

However, those of us in Cbus may not realize how good we have it. Last summer, my wife and I were traveling through Arizona. We stopped overnight in Phoenix, where, in the course of a single night we both had the worst hotel experience and the worst restaurant experience we’ve ever had in life (and bear in mind that I’ve lived in the 3rd world).

Passing over the hotel experience in the aforementioned silence, our mistake in the restaurant department was picking a Chinese restaurant in the first place. Who in their right mind eats Chinese in the desert?

Nevertheless, I was momentarily reassured by the presence of actual Asians both on the staff and dining in the restaurant. Yet the actual food was wretched to a point beyond what my imagination had previously been able to conceive.

I should mention that I have an obsession with never wasting any food. I always clean my plate. I can count the number of times in life I’ve not finished a meal on the fingers of one hand –most often in response to life-threatening illness.

I could not physically force myself to eat more than a single mouthful of anything contained in that vile restaurant. In summary: compared to the Chinese food of Phoenix Arizona, every dish at #1 Chinese is a gourmand’s delight…

However, I drove by last week and saw it was blinking again.

Years ago I was in there and a woman who had left her purse in there returned to ask for it back. Suddenly as the woman asked for her purse back, the girl at the counter couldn’t speak English and mumbled that they didn’t have it.

I overheard a conversation in Mandarin in the back, which indicated to me that they did in fact have her purse. I said something in Chinese that I knew they had the purse. It magically appeared.

I’m sure the staff has rolled over 10 fold in there, but I could never get over the fact that they were going to keep that girls stuff.

No. 1 Chinese however is dogfood. And although I’m a fan of MiMi Cafe, last time I went (several months back) they did have a yellow note from the health dept on the front door.

I gotta say my all-time fav campus Chinese was Moys.

Walker wrote I believe you’re talking about Chinese Village. Was just south of the Shell Station. It was pretty gross in there, and while I thought their noodle dishes were the greasiest things I had ever eaten, their wonton soup was some of the best I had ever had.

there is another thread around here that tells that it has now relocated up to the cleveland and 161 shopping center.

I do miss chinese village, i used to live in the ghetto that CV was part of. i used to eat there at least once a week.

that place was ideal to live with having CV and the flamingo arcade right there.