Uninspired but unbelievably inexpensive and fresh food. Â Great pastries--custard tarts and apple turnovers were amazing. Â Garlic eggplant was just that--not bad at all, but no other flavor except soy sauce. Â Chicken black bean was pretty good, but plain vanilla. Â Wonderful congregation of middle aged men chatting away, and news on TV in English with Chinese subtitles. Â Be prepared to sit community style.
Review Source:The food here is pretty good and the bakery items are good and fresh too. I normally come here for the Mongolian Beef Rice Box and add a fried egg, which is only ~$5 and it comes with soup. This is my favorite thing to get here by far. It comes with a decent amount of beef and mushrooms. Another thing that is really good here is the Salt and Pepper Pork over rice. The bakery items are pretty good and I normally come here and get their Po-Tarts from here, which is really good.
Pretty much for ~$5 for a good rice box, you can't go wrong. The lady that works in the front is always friendly and nice as well.
Friendly, fast, and consistent, what more can you ask for? Oh yes, for it to be tasty, and it is, the name even says so.
I like my carbs so I'm a big fan of their fried rice dishes, I really need to try some of their other offerings the menu is a large one. The place is small not even a dozen of tables or so, it appears they have many regulars as some of the customers were just having tea and sitting around.
On summer days stopping in here for a smoothie with tapioca is a great option, or a milk tea. It has to be one of the last remaining places without a tip jar at the register. Â However, they do have a cash only sign up, so come prepared. Prices are very reasonable for the portions.
Visiting Chicago, my Chinese parents would have been ashamed of me if I didn't stop to eat at Chinatown. My friends and I walked by a few restaurants before deciding on this one. I love little small family-owned places like this, it reminds me of the down-the-street eateries that my mom used to take me as a child to go eat breakfast or lunch in Hong Kong. When we sat down, I noticed that most of the customers were elderly people eating congee or mothers with small children, so you know that the food must be good.
They have a wide selection of food in their menu such as dim sum, meat dishes, noodles, rice, congee, bakery goods, and boba drinks. I ordered the Salted Fish and Chicken Fried Rice, beef rice noodle rolls (Cheung Fun), and a milk tea with boba. The boba was ok, but the fried rice and noodle rolls were delicious. My friends, who aren't use to Chinese restaurants like this, ordered some noodle and rice dishes with beef and they even agreed that it was good. The price is also pretty cheap, my order of three items came out to be less than $15 after tax.
Overall, coming to a small quaint place like this brought back cherished childhood memories and I would definitely visit again next time I'm in town, but I wished we had more places like this in Las Vegas.
My parents were craving some food from our homeland during our trip to Chicago so to Chinatown we go! We stopped by this place because they had my mom's fave -- Wonton Noodles!
The shop is mid-sized, about 8 or 9 tables and it was sure bustling on a Monday! The prices here are dirt cheap and the food was delicious!
We ordered:
- Thousand Year Old Egg & Sliced Pork Congee (ugh, fave!!)
- Fish Congee
- Wonton Noodle Soup
- A plate of Rice Noodles w/ Shrimp & a plate of Rice Noodles with Beef. (Dimsum!)
Total cost - just about $20. The dimsum dishes were so fresh & the chunks of shrimp were super large. The rice noodle was absolutely perfect - soft and velvety! The congee's are huuuuuuuumongo and amazing. I'm not a fan of wonton noodles so didn't give those a try but my parents seemed to enjoy them! Yum, canto food is def the ish :)
This place has an extremely large menu and is just normal everyday Chinese. Â Service was nice and fast even while crowded, 99% of the customers and staff were speaking Chinese. Â
The Won Ton noodles were good for the price and the drink selection is quite large as well. Â
Just make sure you know that they do not accept credit cards, it's cash only.
I had fried egg beef, which was a huge plate of rice, a couple fried eggs, beefish shreds of meat, and some gravy. I was disappointed in the lack of meat and it was basically just rice with gravy on it, but I really enjoyed it. It was around $5 and I left full so I can't complain too much.
Review Source:I'm still a fan of tasty place. Â We were very indecisive about either getting noodle soup on a frigged night or something over rice. Â The bf and I had only $10 to spare since it is cash only. Â The lady at the cash register was so patient and friendly with us. Â We were standing in front of her as we gave her our order. Â Thinking we were having it to go, we decided to stay in. Â She felt kind of bad for not seating, but I see it was our fault for not communicating well to her. Â
It was an overall indecisive night for dinner and so we ended up taking to go. Â The order was packed quick. Â We got the shrimp wonton soup and kung pao chicken all for under $10 phew! Â Great chicken dish, lots of flavor and not too oily. Â The soup was tasty and good portion of wonton. Â I like it here. We would have eaten in, but felt bad and wouldn't have any money left for her tip. Â Next time we will.
My boyfriend and I stopped in here after walking around Chinatown in hot weather for a mango-pineapple smoothie. The smoothies were good, but I would be really reluctant to return based on the lack of cleanliness (everything seemed covered in a film of grease, and I saw some bugs creeping around the floor...didn't notice them til after we ordered, or I would have left). They definitely could stand a mop and a can of Raid.
Review Source:My husband and I took a trip down to Chinatown this weekend. Â We live in Roger's Park and unfortunately don't get out and see as much of the city outside of the northside red line neighborhoods as we should. Â Chinatown was an good option...easy to get to on the red line and not northside.
We wandered around a bit before settling on this place. Â We didn't want a more formal sit down place or dim sum and it seemed to fit the bill.
The inside reminded me of the typical suburban strip mall type Chinese joint...sort of minimalist with lots of posters and a giant menu with photos of the food offerents above the cash register. Â I had the Pineapple and Ginger Chicken and my husband had the Beef and Tomato over rice. Â For $12 we got two massive meals (thankfully we were both very hungry) that was delicious to boot. Â
Where I take off a star is the service. Â One of the other reviewers mentioned a young, ponytailed girl who was extremely rude. Â I think we may have encountered her (unless Tasty Place has the misfortune of having 2 extremely rude ponytailed young women working there). Â I don't expect service with a smile...I like it but I don't expect everyone to be as happy as a waitress at Applebee's singing the birthday song. Â Now, with my husband having a thick accent I am pretty understanding when it comes to communication barriers with people not originally from the USA. Â But this girl gave him a rude look as if he was speaking this way to annoy her on purpose. Â I stepped in and placed his order for him...she had a bit of difficulty understanding me but we were able to get our orders placed. Â
Look young lady, I understand you may have a hard time with communication but it doesn't mean you have to give the customers dirty looks or be annoyed with actually having to work during your shift.
So I give the food a 4, and service a 2....which I averaged for a 3
I really love their food at this place. The price is really reasonable and the food tastes great. I LOVE the spare rib crepe they have there. Its really fresh and soft. Not like some dim sum places that are rough and dry. Â I go to this place all the time and I still keep going there.
BUT, THERE IS THIS ONE WAITRESS THERE, THE YOUNGER ONE WITH A PONYTAIL, SHE SUX! SHE IS VERY VERY VERY RUDE. I have been going there for over 1 1/2 yr already and she has never once been nice to me. I have never met her before this restaurant and i'm positive that I have never done anything to her. but her consistancy to be rude is amazing. I totally hate going there to be served by her and I have made it clear to the owner as well about her attitude problem but she is still there, so now, I either send someone there to pick up food for me or just wait till someone else can serve me instead.
I would totally give this place 5 STARS if it wasn't for the service.
The prices for their food were definitely reasonable. But I didnt come here for their food, so I cant rate that. Â I did come here for a smoothie drink, and it only deserved three stars.
It was about 101 degrees today. I walked in desperately wanted something refreshing to drink to replenish. There was no line so I ordered my strawberry smoothie immediately. The girl took my money immediately. Then came the wait......in this restaurant....which had NO air conditioning.
The girl and the older woman were waitressing (which was getting water for people who had just entered and not yet ordered). Â After standing there for what seemed like forever, the older woman asked us if we wanted to order in or to go. I told her I already ordered my drink. (which really should not have taken more than 5 minutes to make!) The woman had to ask the girl what was going on because apparently the girl took my money and decided to do nothing about my order! When I finally got my smoothie, it looked more like watermelon than strawberry. This is what happens when I deviate from my usual place (Joy Yee). NEVER AGAIN!!!!!
This place is glorious. First of all, they have solid vegetarian options on the menu. I say I don't like Chinese, but what I really mean is that I don't like Buddha's Delight or Broccoli w/ Oyster Sauce (which is only vegetarian about half of the time anyway). But here? Here I have options, and lots of them.
Add to that the fact that servings are huge (which I wish I'd known last time) and prices are low, and it's worth the trip. The only thing keeping them from having 5 stars is the slow service (but good food takes time, so I get that) and the fact that I want them to have Chinese buns w/o pork - they have creamed corn buns and green onion buns and I would live off of them if they had a vegetarian version.
Everything my group had was delicious and we had a great time trying to decipher the Chinese soap opera playing on the t.v. on the wall while we dined.
I've been planning to go back since I visited in mid-March but haven't had the chance. Maybe soon.
Ever since moving back to the states from Beijing, I had been looking for a place to find simple, tasty, fast, and inexpensive chinese food in the city and I found it here.
Bring your friends and order a bunch of items on the dim sum menu as well as some of their main dishes. Â My shu mai and jiaozi were made fresh to order and reminded me of being at my favorite jiaozi street cart in Beijing. Â
Come hungry and fill up on all of the inexpensive food!
Tasty place has great E-Fu Noodle dish and I like their Milk Tea hot or cold. They are customer friendly and I enjoy most of their dish are pretty good. I felt they were a little slim on their chicken wing dish. But I think people should try the restaurant because they serve great won-ton noodles soup and beef brisket noodles soup.
You can still get at least two rice boxes and be under $20.
A man needs things in life:
A good barber
A good tailor
A good mechanic
A good Chinese food place
You may be thinking: One of these things does not belong. To you I would say, GOOD DAY SIR, GOOD DAY. Because each of these things is important in their own way. You need go to places, and ideally each of these places would be located near you.
For good Chinese food, I am willing to travel though, and my go to Chinese food restaurant in the city is Tasty Place. It's Hong Kong style chinese which means that there is a focus on aesthetics as well as precision. (That's what it means to ME at least).
Their BBQ Pork Cha Siu Bao are the size of a kids head, and twice as delicious. The sesame chicken is some of the best I've ever had. It's flash fried perfectly, white meat chicken, which isn't drowning in a sick brown sauces like you will find around town. it's lightly breaded, in a golden yellow sauce with sesame and large chunks of pineapple. The pork shumai were thick, perfectly spiced, and freshly steamed.
The atmosphere leaves a little something to be desired, but this is Chinatown, not LP - you likely didn't push your stroller here. You came here for delicious chinese, and you've found it..
Because Tasty Place is HK style, they have bobas. DELICIOUS bobas in legendary flavors like peach and banana. I should mention that I got out of here with 3 appetizers, 2 bottles of water, an entree, and a boba for $19.64. That is a SCREAMING deal.
Excellent milk tea, though not the real strong HK variety. CASH ONLY so make sure you bring it. I'm definitely a regular here--their dishes are cooked really well, and always come with surprising extras that other Chinese places don't put in. The normal fish filet with chinese broccoli has added carrot slices and mushrooms in it--extra good. Beef short ribs come with green peppers, onion, and mushroom in it--definitely a good touch and adds much to the flavor. They have a lot of HK type dishes too for breakfast or light lunch. I also enjoy their congee here, any of them.
In fact, I don't think I've ever had a bad meal here. Seating is limited though, so get carry out if you have a big group.
It is a small local place that serves really hot amazing coffee for just 75 cents. What is really cool is that you can go in and hear nothing but various Chinese dialects, so if you are looking to escape your world this is a perfect place to do it. They have good cheap food of all sorts. It is family run and everyone is always polite. Plus, you can get stuff  to go, so when you want a pork bun at midnight there is always one in your fridge. There really is not a menu so you do need to ask what is available. It is great for people watching as well. The waitresses speak English so that is not a problem. One can sit at a table for hours writing or reading and no one tells you to go.Or, you can try to understand the Chinese soap operas playing on the TV, but not too loudly.  Check it out. It is fun.
Review Source:They have decent and inexpensive food if you stick to the rice dishes, soups and sweet bakery goods. Â I don't like their rice noodles (go to Gourmet Foods instead) and dim sum (much better at Chiu Quon Bakery). Â
Beef and Chinese broccoli over rice...decent, low cost
Beef Tendon wonton noodle soup....decent, low cost
Various sweet rolls.....decent
Sweet rice cakes....decent, low cost
BBQ bun.....not tasty
Shrimp dumpling (Ha Gow)...not tasty
Hom Sui Gok (deep-fried pork turnovers)...ok
If you do take outs, a rice dish will fill you up and would set you back a measly $5 (tax already included!)
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