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| - This is in a small town in rural America with no real local source of Chinese ingredients, spices, vegetables, or meat, and its clientele is mostly not Chinese. So ... what can you expect. It is not authentic, which may be a good thing. I recently took an older couple who used to live here to a real Chinese restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area. Instant loss of appetite when we were served chicken feet. You won't get that here.
Soy sauce is strange, sweet and sour not quite, and the sauces for everything very dark and heavy. Spring rolls are shredded spinach, gyoza may be frozen, and the servers have no real concept of Chinese food (nor the language). The managers are Chinese though. Saying this is Chinese food is like saying Taco Bell is authentic Mexican. Even the Panda is more authentic.
Then again, service is western and is fantastic. Tablecloths and cloth napkins, attentive refilling of water. It is elegant, and for the local non-Chinese, it works. We would take our non-Chinese friends here for an elegant evening. For authenticity, go to Kent or Cleveland.
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