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| - Chinese food. The options are always numerous. So today, when my youngest wanted Chinese for lunch, I pondered the situation. High end Chinatown food? Not today. Asian Buffet? No..standing in line to watch 300 of my fellow suburbanites waddle to the trough in the Temple of Excess holds no appeal (also it's shorts and sandals weather and...no. Just...no.). So what's in the middle?
My parents called it "hole in the wall Chinese"'. This isn't a reflection on the owner or the sanitary conditions or food quality...it just described for us the standard Chinese restaurant and carryout, booths and four tops, paper placemats with the Chinese Zodiac...classic strip mall Chinese restaurants, the kind you grew up eating in. And this brought us straight to China Jade, a perfect representation of your workaday Chinese restaurant. Daily lunch and dinner combos, good food, good prices. For $20 plus tax and tip, two big portions, shrimp chow mein and sweet and sour pork, fried rice, eggroll and soft drinks. About $25 with tax and tip, great flavor. A meal's worth of leftovers going home. As it was in the 80s, is now and ever shall be, "hole in the wall" Chinese is there for you at China Jade.
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