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| - When you are faced with a sea of chain restaurants (Subway, Pizza Hut, et. ugly.), sometimes you will just try the first thing that looks like it is a bit different. And so we ate at China Tango, a new restaurant that ensconced itself in a brand new shopping center. The decor is very modern. Unlike most local Chinese takeout restaurants, this one has real leather chairs, real china plates, and good glassware. The menu was rather ordinary, but the lunches were reasonable ($5.95) and came with soup. I started with the Pot Stickers; crispy and hot, but obviously machine made. My husband had the Shrimp Chop Suey, plenty of vegetables and plenty of shrimp; a nice sauce. I had the House Special Chicken (marked hot) without the bell peppers. They had no problem accommodating my request. I am so used to that little red pepper symbol to be a suggestion, but this dish was HOT. Not exactly too hot to eat, but definitively hot. I'm glad I had a lot of steamed rice with it and that they were so quick to refill my glass of Coke.
This is exactly the kind of restaurant that makes me want YELP to have half stars. It's better than most standard Chinese restaurants in their attention to detail, but there is nothing on the menu new or different enough to make this a regular restaurant in our repertory. If you are in the neighborhood, you could do a lot worse.
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