From bergman@m2c.org Thu Oct 5 06:16:05 1989 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 31 May 89 10:15:35 edt From: bergman@m2c.org (Michael Bergman) To: dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU's message of Tue, 30 May 89 22:22:51 EDT <8905310222.AA19570@ALTHEA.MIT.EDU> Subject: The best Chinese restaurant Well, I mentioned several, and don't recall exactly what I said, and don't have a copy, so this may not be what you're after--also, there was a certain amount of rhetoric involved. The place in Chinatown I was referring to is the "Chinatown Mall", 4-5 kitchens grouped around a central, common dining area. On the second floor over a travel agent and a grocer in Chinatown on Beech street. Neat place, usually filled with residents of chinatown. I don't know if they serve dinner, but for lunch its the sort of place that you order one dish for two people--which comes to less than $2 per person. The food is good, but not gourmet--*real* ethnic food, that eths eat everyday, not the stuff >from the Sunday dinner table. Last time I was there, one of the kitchens specialized in rice noodles, one was Thai, one was szechuan, and the other 1 or 2 had nothing to distinguish them from each other (to me). The other restaurants I recall mentioning were in Lexington. There are, to the best of my knowledge, two chinese restaurants in Lexington. I have only eaten in one of them (the one by the old railroad station, just off Mass Ave) once, and recall the food as being quite good. The other one I have eaten in all of twice, both times for Dim Sum, (its slightly further from Mass Ave, near a yarn shop (not the yarn shop on Mass Ave, the other one)) and was impressed by the fact that the restaraunt was filled with chinese families. My companion said it indicated the quality of the restaraunt, that these people would come all the way out from chinatown; I said that it meant that there was a much larger chinese population in the Lexington area than I had realized. If there was anything else I said that wants amplification, pray let me know and I will happily comply. By the by--have you tried Chang Sho, between Harvard and Porter Squares, where the Ground Round used to be? I like them a lot. --mike bergman (w) 75 North Drive, Westborough, MA 01581, USA +1 (508) 870-0312 UUCP: harvard!m2c!bergman INTERNET: bergman@m2c.org