Chinese Food

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My DH love chinese buffets!:guilty: (LOL!) soooo, I am wondering if anyone knows of a good,CLEAN, chinese buffet in the Disneyland area. We will have a car so can go out, but don't want to travel too far. Thanks!!:)
 
I'm not sure of real close by. Though different and not terrible close there is a Benihana east on Ball Road about a mile down. They have good lunch deals.


Has anyone tried the China Buffet that is across the street from the shopping center with the Character Warehouse in it? It's about 1.5 miles north of the resort on Harbor.
 
Not to bash the Americans in any way, but there is no authentic Chinese food in the USA:upsidedow. This coming from someone who lives in the largest Chinatown in North America, and is used to the "Good Stuff".

You may be unaware, but when someone asks about Chinese food in America, it's mostly American dishes with Asian inspirations. Also if you think the only authentic Chinese dishes in the continent are in Vancouver, it shows that you haven't traveled wide enough. You just need to look beyond the mainstream restaurants and you can find it all over the US.


Clearly what is below is off topic.
There's an IN-N-OUT burger joint where skiingfast is talking about, and a Ruby's Diner a 1/4 mile up the road. Both are excellent 50's style restaurants. IN-N-OUT is take out, and Ruby's is Table service. We have nothing like these restaurants up in the Great Whilte North, It's a tradition for our family to hit the In-N-Out burger in Fullerton before heading to our hotel once we get to Disneyland. Once you eat an IN-N-OUT burger, you'll wonder why you eat the rotten burgers we're stuck with up here:woohoo::woohoo:. Just my 2 CDN cents worth:flower3:.
 

Our family actually goes out of our way to find out off the map places that are not chains when we travel. We seek out the diners, drive inns and dives most tourists overlook. And I have traveled a great deal through your country thankyou very much.
 
Not to bash the Americans in any way, but there is no authentic Chinese food in the USA:upsidedow. This coming from someone who lives in the largest Chinatown in North America, and is used to the "Good Stuff".

Well, interesting comment. And I don't know as a Chinese American, if I should be insulted because I think I cook darn good authentic food. And there are a few decent home style restaurants in my area. Are you Chinese? Or was that an off the cuff comment?

To the OP, I don't know that I can personally vouch for any Chinese buffets close to Disneyland. BUT if you want to take a 30 minute ride south to Lake Forest, there is Dragon Seafood Buffet, that is decent. It's actually my Dad's favorite Chinese buffet besides my house;) I go for the steamed fish, chinese vegetables and sai fun (rice noodles). We just went on Friday, they were serving clams, crawfish, steamed fish fillets, mussels, shrimp and some kind of crab. They have homestyle broccoli beef, chicken and mushrooms, plus a few other dishes. AND that night, they had pig's feet. There's also the traditional salad, fruit, cold shellfish and sushi selection. And as my DH says what would a Chinese buffet be without the "magical" strawberry sauce on bananas:laughing:

To the PP, have you tried Tri Villages in Irvine? It is not your commercial Americanized Chinese restaurant. The best dishes are the homestyle and items usually not seen on most menus. And if you read Chinese, you have a whole other selection of food.
 
And as my DH says what would a Chinese buffet be without the "magical" strawberry sauce on bananas:laughing:

LOL! So that's not just the place by my house that has the "magical" strawberry sauce on bananas???
 
When we go visit the mouse, we usually drive, and try to find the restaurants that are not chains, and restaurants that we do not have up here. Have found a fantastic fried chicken place in Springfield, Or, and have found many excellent restaurants in the USA. I have tried American style Chinese food, and for those who live in an area where I can practically walk to any Sushi or Authentic Chinese place am used to it, the American version is completely different in many ways. We have over 200 Asian restaurants in a 4 block radius that I can walk to. Our family personally doesn't care for the American version. A couple of years ago, and on our return leg we finally hit a mom and pop Chinese food place in Crescent City, CA. Man they were surprised when we started rattling off the different dishes we wanted in Chinese (you get used to ordering it that way up here.). They had pretty decent Chinese food that was closer to what we have up here. To each their own, and if you like it great, and I never said I was from Vancouver, so there!:lmao::lmao::lmao:


I agree that we Americans have created a rather non-authentic version of what we call "Chinese food", but I find your remark that there is no authentic Chinese food to be had anywhere in the US pretty silly. BC hasn't cornered the market on Chinese culture and just in my town alone I can rattle off numerous authentic Chinese restaurants.

What's the old saying in sales....anything that comes directly before the word "but" is not true. You may not have meant to come off the way you did, but it did translate as harsh.
 
I don't see where anyone has flamed you. And you're absolutely right...everyone is entitled to their own opinions. I don't expect you to "back down" from your previous statement, but I do suspect you knew it would not be received very well, since it came with a disclaimer.
 
LOL! So that's not just the place by my house that has the "magical" strawberry sauce on bananas???

My DH even asked me to make it one time. I looked at him like he was crazy. Told him to go to the market,buy the strawberry sauce, lemons and bananas, and make it himself. I do wonder though if there's some secret handbook to open a Chinese buffet that you have to have the bananas covered with strawberry sauce. All the buffets that we go to have those bananas.
 
Huh, I've been to many "authentic" Chinese places...but honestly, not around DL! LOL I do love PF Chang's but it's very much CA style Chinese food and it's not a buffet, it's family style....good but not a buffet. To be honest, all the Chinese food I've eaten around DL has not been up to my standards of Chinese, most have been about as close to Panda Express as you can get, without going to a Panda....LOL The exception is the PF Chang's. :)
 
well, the OP ask for authentic chinese food "buffet."

I dont think there is anything close to that anywhere anyways, authentic = pricey!!!

anyways, if ur lookin for authentic, go up to 5 freeway, get off on euclid, make a left on Cresant and the plaza on the right has a resturant called Ten Ten Seafood resturant. Probably the most authentic i can find in Orange County...

http://www.tentenseafoodrestaurant.com/
 
well, the OP ask for authentic chinese food "buffet."

I dont think there is anything close to that anywhere anyways, authentic = pricey!!!

anyways, if ur lookin for authentic, go up to 5 freeway, get off on euclid, make a left on Cresant and the plaza on the right has a resturant called Ten Ten Seafood resturant. Probably the most authentic i can find in Orange County...

http://www.tentenseafoodrestaurant.com/

oohh, yes...Albort, good suggestion, however, not a buffet is it?
 
well, the OP ask for authentic chinese food "buffet."

I dont think there is anything close to that anywhere anyways, authentic = pricey!!!

http://www.tentenseafoodrestaurant.com/

Thanks everyone for the ummm, interesting responses!:upsidedow
Just to be clear, I wasn't looking for authentic chinese food. just a basic chinese fair buffet. My DH loves the ones here in Edmonton and as we had our anniversary dinner on Sunday - at a chinese buffet - he simply said - hey we should try a buffet in Anaheim and see what the difference is!:)
 
I refuse to back down on my statements, and rather than flaming me for something that I've said, let's get back to the original point of this thread, which to help the original poster find decent Chinese food around DL. To be honest everyone is entitled to their opinions, weather you agree with them or not.

In case you're willing to drive up the 5, to the 605, then to the 10...you will find some pretty awesome chinese food in San Gabriel Valley.

Try this place (Ding Tai Fung): http://www.yelp.com/biz/din-tai-fung-dumpling-house-arcadia#query:ding tai fung

Or this place (Newport Tan Seafood): http://www.yelp.com/biz/newport-tan-cang-seafood-restaurant-san-gabriel-2

Or any of the other places in the Monterey Park/SGV/Arcadia area...


If you drive away from DLR on the 57 towards Rowland Heights, there's also tons of authentic greasy table lack of english menus Chinese food, like this place (No. 1 Noodle House): http://www.yelp.com/biz/no-1-noodle-house-rowland-heights#query:chinese food

or this place (Earthen for its yummy onion pancakes): http://www.yelp.com/biz/earthen-restaurants-hacienda-heights#query:chinese food

As for around the DLR area, this place isn't bad (It's northern Chinese cuisine): http://www.yelp.com/biz/mas-chinese-islamic-restaurant-anaheim#query:ma's islamic cuisine
 
Has anyone had the Panda Express on Orangethorpe Ave? Did I read somewhere that this is a chain?

Thanks lilpooh for all of your research!
 





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