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| - For very cheap and not AWFULLY bad Chinese food, the regular, cheap, two-sized (small and large) portions menu is (barely, and I mean barely) OK. However, since they've hired a new chef, they put on more pretensions now, they have some alleged "Szechuan" dishes, which are quite a bit more expensive, yet EVEN WORSE than the regular dishes. The "new chef" is worse than the traditional chefs I've seen there for years. I tried two different dishes from the more expensive menu, some beef which was edible but undermediocre, and then a whole "Szechuan bean chili whole fish" dish which was so bad and literally stinky I couldn't finish it. (I should mention I love Chinese food and I had lots of it, in lots of places.) The reason I still visit the place, rarely, is a cheapish and tasty Crispy Whole Fish, in the regular menu, which is not authentic Chinese, but which for some reason I crave every three months.
The campus Chinese place to go is Lai-Lai, period. There's simply no comparison in quality, and when the ratio price/quantity/quality satisfaction is being taken into account, Lai-Lai offers by far the best deal on campus. Compared to Empire Chinese, Evo (where the chef comes out of the toilet and back into the kitchen, without washing his hands), or even Mandarin Wok, which has some OK dishes, but not equal to Lai-Lai.
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