Any good cantonese in the city?

The suburbs have great Cantonese food.
Whether it is Wing Wah in Hazel Crest, Rickshaw and Golden Buddha in Homewood. Or Yen Yen in Arlington Heights‎.
But I have been all over Chicago. And the Chinese is horrible.


Lee Wing Wah, Three Happiness, House of Fortune, etc... in china town. Stink. Golden Budha on Randolph. Bad. On and on....

So are there any good Cantonese Chinese restaurants in Chicago?

The title of the forum, LTH, refers to what is considered one of the finest Cantonese restaurants in the city by the community - "Little" Three Happiness on the south side of Cermak at the entrance to Chinatown's main drag. Try this thread for a start:

http://www.lthforum.com/bb/viewtopic.ph ... +happiness

Look a few forums down for our "GNR" (Great Neighborhood Restaurant) list for additional suggestions. Welcome to the board and Happy New Year, by the way!

Zandzak wrote:The suburbs have great Cantonese food.
Whether it is Wing Wah in Hazel Crest, Rickshaw and Golden Buddha in Homewood. Or Yen Yen in Arlington Heights‎.
But I have been all over Chicago. And the Chinese is horrible.

Zandzak,

While you express your opinion strongly, I, and I am sure others, would appreciate a more detailed breakdown than Suburbs = Great, Chicago = Horrible.

Regards,
Gary

Sniff?

Any chance the tagline can be changed to,

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Enter with guns blazin'

Wow....

Silver Seafood has really hit the spot the last few times I've been. Haven't tried Sniff yet.

no, the only good chinese cooks go to the suburbs, its a well-known fact

Or try a couple more of the hundreds of cantonese restaurants in the city and come back with another great pronouncement.

Sorry, more specifically, anybody else smell that?

Mhays wrote:Sorry, more specifically, anybody else smell that?

Smell what? The aroma of braised e-fu noodles wafting northward from Tinley Park?

eau de troll?

Man, if TonyC was still around he'd school this guy on just how wrong he is.







About suburban Chinese.

While I am not saying the burbs have a lock on great Catanese. It is only the place I have found good food so far. Thus the post here. I have been trying around. But have not really found anything to my liking.

I guess taste is personal thing. Why there is chocolate and vanilla ice cream. So it is hard to describe. Overall I do like chicken to be all white meat. And no "mystery parts" in my food.

I did get a recommendation for Silver Seafood this morning, from a co-worker. So I will plan on trying that.

I will still stand behind Lee Wing Wah, Three Happiness, House of Fortune are not very good. IE tasty.

So if there are any other recommendations on what people consider outstanding Catanese. I would appreciate that.

Zandzak wrote:I guess taste is personal thing. Why there is chocolate and vanilla ice cream. So it is hard to describe. Overall I do like chicken to be all white meat. And no "mystery parts" in my food.

If so, you might want to be wary of a lot of recs on this board, at least without getting clarification. If that's the kind of Chinese you prefer, hey, there's no need to defend your preferences, but then I suspect you probably wouldn't enjoy some of the city's more authentic offerings that are frequently championed here.

Of course, I'd urge you to keep an open mind and keep trying those mystery parts. As somebody who has traveled to Hong Kong and Guangdong (the province the English previously called Canton) multiple times per year on business for the past 12 years, there comes a point when the joy of the dark meat and mystery parts are revealed to you But if that's not what you want, that's not what you want.

(And incidentally, I'd be careful about throwing stones -- because the subtext of your post, intentional or not, is that the Chinese can't make their own food well and it's taken the Chicago suburbs to do it right.)

Zandzak wrote:I guess taste is personal thing.

Just trying to follow along...

You are damn sure all the Cantonese food in Chicago is bad; but, you are just guessing taste may be a personal thing?

Santander,

Just for clarification (and to avoid additional put downs of LTH), I don't believe "the community" ever considered "The Little" Three Happiness to be one of the finest Cantonese restaurants in the city. LTH was named for Gary's favorite restaurant.

Sorry I don't have the quote handy, but I always liked the description on the back of the LTH cards that MikeG wrote... (I paraphrase until I can search for the quote) we all have a Little Three Happiness and we would like to hear about yours.

Edited to include quote:

LTH stands for "Little" Three Happiness, a Chinatown storefront which one of the site's founders thinks is the best restaurant in Chicago. Others happen to disagree, but the point of the name isn't to honor one restaurant--it's to pay tribute to the little happinesses waiting to be discovered in restaurants all over the city, and to honor the spirit that seeks to share them with strangers online.

Personally (as in MY taste), I have had some of the finest meals ANYWHERE at LTH...but it was the gestalt thing: agreeable food; jovial company, personal service and, of course, a tumbler or five of Maker's Mark.

Zandzak,

All joshing aside, I would love to hear more details of your favorite suburban places... I have been known to cross Harlem or Cermak if I have a good reason.[/i]

Thanks for the clarification, pdaane. I should have written "considered by some in the community to be a favorite Cantonese restaurant." I was trying to be positive and helpful to a first-time poster with an actual recommendation, welcome, and link, which didn't happen again in this thread until your post.

Santander wrote:Thanks for the clarification, pdaane. I should have written "considered by some in the community to be a favorite Cantonese restaurant." I was trying to be positive and helpful to a first-time poster with an actual recommendation, welcome, and link, which didn't happen again in this thread until your post.

Santander, I for one appreciated your generous openness in response to what many might have written off as observations too outlandish to merit any consideration at all.

Incidentally, there has to be a thread somewhere for white meat Ameri-Chinese favorites, right? I can't seem to locate one and I have a hard time believing this topic hasn't been covered all in one place.

There's a nugget of a reasonable question in the OP, once you translate and strip away the hyperbole.

pdaane wrote:Sorry I don't have the quote handy, but I always liked the description on the back of the LTH cards that MikeG wrote... (I paraphrase until I can search for the quote) we all have a Little Three Happiness and we would like to hear about yours.

I really like that description, too.

LTH stands for "Little" Three Happiness, a Chinatown storefront which one of the site's founders thinks is the best restaurant in Chicago. Others happen to disagree, but the point of the name isn't to honor one restaurant--it's to pay tribute to the little happinesses waiting to be discovered in restaurants all over the city, and to honor the spirit that seeks to share them with strangers online.

Maybe the original poster is right. It sounds as though you like the American-Chinese cuisine more than authentic Chinese. Through the forum I got to try China Chef (In Morton Grove...the suburbs) and it was what it was...better than good American-Chinese. I have not found a place as good for what it is in the city, but I havent been looking too hard. So yes it is in the suburbs but its closer than the village of Hazel Crest and an easy ride from the city. I bet you'll like this place, try it out.

http://lthforum.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=11132