Wing Lei is the first Michelin starred Chinese restaurant in the western United States. And like Michelin, I also give Wing Lei a star-but on a scale of five. Wonderful setting and great service, but the food is plain awful, and based on the large number of positive reviews peppered with bad ones, clearly this is a case of the emperor has no clothes. One Open Table reviewer swooned particularly over the General Tso's Chicken. I've had better gloppy orange colored chicken at buck-a-plate Chinese fast food steam table outlets in South Central Los Angeles than what they served at Wing Lei. Given that Wing Lei charges $29 and the same dish costs $2.50 in the hood, that's a pretty strong indictment of how bad the food is at Wing Lei. The duck salad wasn't awful, but neither was it particularly good. I don't know if Wing Lei deserved their star when Richard Chen was their chef, but I can't imagine how any restaurant can be more overrated.