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| - Note #1: Castle Place Chinese Cuisine sits in the small Castle Place shopping plaza. It's next-door neighbor is Nick's Pizza. Hence, the name.
Note #2: They also offer a small selection of Thai entrees.
Another trip out to this end of Mount Lebanon resulted in a take-home meal from this tiny, scantily-decorated, almost-nowhere-to-sit Chinese restaurant, and the results were fairly middling.
A obligatory helping of fried dumplings, that appetizer Kay and I cannot get enough of, began this insurance seminar of a dinner. They were doughy, somewhat stingy in terms of pork filling, and overall, were unexciting.
I came close to ordering Thai, but decided against it since I wasn't eating at a Thai restaurant, so I randomly went with an item called Capital Chicken.
A rank-and-file dish centered around battered, fried chicken breast strips, a slew of vegetables and a "brown" sauce "complimented it, leaving my palate bored.
This is why I'm tiring of Chinese or at least the "Americanized" variety: Everything I seem to order of late contains a protein, a sauce, and some vegetables in some sort of mildly-differing configuration. No matter how exotic it sounds, it turns out to be something I've had before under a different name.
I want something new in my Chinese excursions. Castle Place doesn't have it.
Perhaps I should have just stuck with General Tso's. It may not be authentic (who cares?), but I'll be damned if it isn't universally good no matter where I have it. That's what I get for trying to be adventurous: Capital Chicken.
P.S. The service was really friendly, and like many Asian restaurants around town, there are always adorable children about the place doing homework or showing off their toys.
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