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| - This place seems to be halfway through a name-change and was formerly Yen's Gourmet (http://www.yelp.com/biz/yens-gourmet-pittsburgh#hrid:jfHdFltRVZ3F82lYFiBZFQ). This is cheap, neighborhood takeout at its best.
Lunches include an entree, rice, and soup or a soda, and most of them are under $5. Most entrees are under $9 (except seafood entrees - the most expensive of which is $10.95). The food is good and the restaurant is clean. There is a big dining room with a cool circular doorway and the kind of typical Chinese knick-knacks you usually see, but it's fairly tastefully done.
As far as food goes, their vegetable fried rice includes more veggies than usual, and the sesame tofu is deliciously crispy. It has 2 pieces of broccoli on the side, so you can pretend it's good for you. The vegetable spring rolls are really tiny, but you get 2 for $1.50 so you can't really complain. The hot & sour soup appears to have no beef - good news for vegetarians. They also have some cool combination dinners where you get soup, a spring roll, a chicken wing, rice, an entree and a cookie for $10.50. How this place makes any money is beyond me. The only thing I haven't liked so far was the vegetables in yu-shang garlic sauce, but everything else has been good.
If you live in the neighborhood, definitely check out China Star. You get a lot of bang for your buck, it's fast and it's never crowded.
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