Comments on MSG150: Seattle International District Lunch Food: Lunch #52: Wing Wah B.B.Q.

" Unfortunately we had the Vegetarian Rob, so we h...

2008-05-27T04:33:00.000-07:00

" Unfortunately we had the Vegetarian Rob, so we had to have more non-meat than I would have liked. We lived, though."

Having a vegetarian in your group is like looking for food with a cow. If you don't find enough, you can eat him.

jujubee,I hear you. New Star is a great example. I...

2008-05-20T20:58:00.000-07:00

jujubee,

I hear you. New Star is a great example. I have seen very positive reviews online for their dinner entrees, but their lunch specials clearly were aimed at the local business folks, not their Chinese clientele. Our goal, however, is to review the lunch scene at these spots and that means eating the lunch menu. Right next door to New Star is Golden City which has a lunch specials menu that includes lots of non-Americanized options. My suggestion to places like New Star is this: If you make great food, offer it to everyone. You are only hurting yourself by only offering me crappy egg rolls and red syrupy meats.

Cheers,
Geary

I just moved to Seattle last week and a couple of ...

2008-05-20T17:36:00.000-07:00

I just moved to Seattle last week and a couple of people independently recommended I check out your blog. I am really enjoying it so far. However, I wanted to make a comment about Rule #2. (I'm not done reading all your posts yet - I'm only in March - so maybe you've addressed this in the meantime. If so, I apologize.) I am Chinese and I strongly feel that at a lot of the more authentic Chinese restaurants, the lunch specials menu is code for "safe for white people." I grew up on the Eastside (though it's been more than a decade since I've lived here) so I've been to quite a few of the restaurants in the ID , and in some cases I've read what your group has ordered off the lunch specials menu and thought to myself 1) nooooooo, and 2) I've never known any of the chinese families we know actually order those items when we go to those restaurants. So, is it possible to amend that rule?