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Wendyn
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Username: Wendyn
Post Number: 3034
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 8:32 am: | 
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Has anyone tried Jade Lake in Millburn? We do Ginger Taste usually but just got the JL menu. Wondering if it is any good. |
Wilkanoid
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Username: Cseleosida
Post Number: 572
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 9:27 am: |
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Jade Lake is fair, at best.
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Glock 17
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Username: Glock17
Post Number: 748
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 9:28 am: |
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How am I gonna' get Jimmy's cookies now!? This is just as bad as ms fields moving out of the short hills mall! |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13914
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 9:30 am: |
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Ling Ling was the blandest Chinese food I ever had.
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Lizziecat
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Username: Lizziecat
Post Number: 1184
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 9:39 am: |
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On weekends the China Gourmet does a wonderful dim sum brunch. The parking lot is always filled, and many of the cars belong to Chinese people from New York. |
eliz
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Username: Eliz
Post Number: 1424
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 10:20 am: |
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Even Ginger Taste is an up/down experience. We've had some good meals from there but recently some really bland, not-so-fresh ones. I miss JJ's!!!!! |
breal
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Username: Breal
Post Number: 871
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 11:57 am: |
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Talk to me more about Peking House take out. What's good to order? |
amandacat
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Username: Amandacat
Post Number: 1115
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 12:22 pm: |
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I love their fried vegetable dumplings, veggie fried rice (real vegetables, not just onions & peas!), beef with string beans, moo shoo pork. The chicken with broccoli was pretty bland, though . . . |
Case
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Username: Case
Post Number: 1454
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 1:13 pm: |
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This sounds promising... and chicken and broccoli is kind of a bland dish, I guess. I wonder if they can handle sesame chicken or (dare I dream) orange beef? |
Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 9313
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 1:49 pm: |
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Just finished a typical northern Chinese lunch (fish, beef, chicken, veggie dish with soup at the end of the meal):
2 fish prepared hong shao style (braised in soy sauce with a few hot peppers)
Beef boiled slowly in water, wine, ginger, sugar, soy sauce and cinnamon, cooled and sliced (more like an appetizer)
Some kind of pole beans cooked with a few chicken wings to flavor them
Stir fried snap peas with a little garlic
Clear soup made from beef broth with juliened (sp?) white radish, cilantro, white pepper corns (I think), a few pieces of orange peel and topped with a little hot pepper oil. (amazingly delicious)
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Wilkanoid
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Username: Cseleosida
Post Number: 573
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 2:15 pm: |
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So where did you have lunch, Dave? |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13926
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 2:27 pm: |
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At home, I'm guessing!
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GSP142
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Username: Gsp142
Post Number: 117
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 2:32 pm: |
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Case and amandacat, you can definitely tell the cooks at Peking House to make a dish spicier--and they will. (Of course, some dishes, such a Moo Goo Gai Pan and Egg Foo Young, aren't intended to be spicy.)
I generally stick with chicken (excellent quality) and shrimp dishes; beef dishes have been a bit more variable in terms of quality (too chewy, sometimes), generally, and I generally don't order pork.
One of my favorite dishes is the ginger and scallion lo mein (if you like ginger, it's wonderful!); for an extra $2.00-4.00 dollars they will add your choice of meat (bet they'd add tofu, also, if you're not a meat-eater)and it's a great entree. I also will order a pint of broccoli, and request that it be prepared Szechuan style. I can sometimes stretch the pint of each item into two meals, especially if I get soup or an appetizer (the spring rolls are highly recommended). The shrimp with curry and onion is also good; it comes with more vegetables than just onion, and, again, they will ratchet up the spice level if you ask.
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breal
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Username: Breal
Post Number: 872
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 2:33 pm: |
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Thanks Amandacat. That's news I can use, and eat. |
breal
Citizen
Username: Breal
Post Number: 873
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 2:33 pm: |
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Thanks Amandacat. That's news I can use, and eat. |
Alleygater
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Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 1796
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 3:38 pm: |
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Last time I ordered the veggie lo mein from Peking House (a few days ago) I was horribly disappointed that there was meat in my dish. I had to go hungry that night. Big waste of food.
I find the food to be very hit or miss here. When it's good, I'm happy but other times I'm not. So far Ginger Taste seems the most reliable to me.
And to answer the threads question, I would say judging from the restaurants in this area, NO!!! |
Glock 17
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Username: Glock17
Post Number: 750
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 3:40 pm: |
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YOU ARE ALL TOO PICKY. SUCK IT UP. CHINESE FOOD IS NOT MEANT TO BE GOOD. IT'S LIKE RAMEN NOODLES. |
LilLB
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Username: Lillb
Post Number: 1622
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 3:44 pm: |
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I think the answer to the question of whether or not there are good Chinese Restaurants is YES, but it depends on your definition of "Good"... |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13932
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 3:48 pm: |
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Glock, you sound as if you've never been to Mama Buddha (in Greenwich Village) or Chinatown. That's what molded your expectations. That's useful if you plan to stay put. In other words, it's sometimes good to want what you have rather than trying to have what you want. 
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Case
Citizen
Username: Case
Post Number: 1455
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 3:48 pm: |
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Glock, you found the only way to make your post less useful: using all capital letters.
Well done. |
Glock 17
Citizen
Username: Glock17
Post Number: 751
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 4:18 pm: |
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Woohoo! And I was in Chinatown over spring break
let me quote my earlier post "The food in Chinatown is pretty good if you know where to look"
And I <3 C-A-P-E-E-T-A-L L-E-T-T-U-R-Z! |
frannyfree
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Username: Frannyfree
Post Number: 190
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 1, 2006 - 10:48 am: |
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Where is Peking House?
We love to go to Hunan Spring in Springfield. |
GSP142
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Username: Gsp142
Post Number: 118
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 1, 2006 - 11:47 am: |
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frannyfree, Peking House is on South Valley Road (just follow Ridgewood Road from South Orange north into West Orange, where the name changes) in the CVS shopping center. |
USCStudent
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Username: Columbiastudent
Post Number: 99
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Friday, May 5, 2006 - 4:18 am: |
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Don't talk about a lack of good chinese food until you come out to California. As a former New Jerseyan, and now a student in Los Angeles, I can honestly say good chinese is the thing I probably miss the most.
I'm not talking a sit down dinner. I'm talking the fast food-ish kind. Where you call and order it (lunch special, anyone?) and it's ready in 20 minutes for you to pick up. Any place out here has it all sitting in vats, probably hours old, and never anything good.
Anyone know of any good chinese food in Los Angeles?  |
MSO55
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Username: Mso55
Post Number: 4
Registered: 5-2006
| | Posted on Monday, May 8, 2006 - 7:44 pm: |
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I geuss i haven't checked out all my options but I've always just enjoyed take out from Bill and Harry's. |
stefano
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Username: Stefano
Post Number: 496
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Monday, May 8, 2006 - 11:32 pm: |
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