Miss Egg Roll

I live steps from this restaurant so Miss Egg Roll has become my default chinese restaurant depot.  Overall, everything is average and acceptable in a way that I am content with the exchange of money for quick food.  

Food really isn't bad and you get plenty of it.  Actually, what I really recently appreciated was the Chicken Rice Soup.  I was sick, ordered this, and the soup is really soothing.  It's a really simple broth, rice, chicken, slivers of green onions.  Did the trick.

Let's start with the good news.  A lot of the items on their menu are really tasty, and come in a pretty generous portion for the price.  I love the shrimp lo mein, and I've NEVER loved lo mein before (I wanted something that would be easy to eat out of a container, on the el, and noodles won over rice).  The shrimp were a great size, and I got more than just a few of them -- win!  The curry chicken is pretty good, too, but not as spicy as I expected.  The fried rices, of all varieties, are better than standard.  The pepper beef is really tasty, and came with tomatoes in addition to my usual green peppers -- yum!

The crab rangoon is pretty good, although on their menu its called both crab "gagoon" and crab "gangoo".  I don't really know what that's all about...  And, you have to specifically ask for that neon-red dipping sauce that comes with it, otherwise they'll just give you packets of duck sauce.  Also, when you ask for the neon-red sauce, they will pretend not to know what you mean for a few moments, and then try to take away your duck sauce (as if you can't have both).  It takes a little persuasion.

The egg rolls, however, I think are pretty gross.  They might be stuffed with canned tuna fish.  I would have thought that "Miss Egg Roll" herself could do better.  Maybe this is what egg rolls are supposed to taste like, and I'm too Americanized to know it?  Well, it's all a matter of taste, and these aren't mine.

The whole place is dingy and hot, but I kind of like it.  Last time I went in, there was an old guy attacking the buttons on some kind of slot machine or video poker game, pretty funny.  Step in, get some cheap Chinese, and take it home (I only live 1/2 block away).  It probably IS the best Chinese in Uptown, but we don't have a lot of really good choices right now...  You get bang for your buck, for sure -- and that buck better be cash, no credit cards!

This review is for Miss Egg Roll's awesome delivery service. If I wanted to speak in detail to someone four times I would have left my house to venture into the world of idiots instead of ordering food. I was asked directions from their location to my house........How am I supposed to know where their stupid restaurant is? You're a Chinese restaurant, %95 of your business is delivery, figure it out, don't call me 4 times, Peterson and Western are major streets. When she somehow found my apartment building she ignored my instructions to ring the bell and made me walk down 3 flights of stairs to get my food. When I unwrapped it, sauce spilled all over me and my carpet, the boxes were overfilled and incorrectly packaged.

So thanks Miss Egg Roll for setting the bar so low that you make literally all other delivery services look freakin fantastic. I would rather talk to the wing place back in Georgia that would cuss me out if I didn't speak clearly enough for them to understand, because at least they had really good wings. You're food is just average.....actually the beef stew was pretty good but in no way worth the trouble.