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In the referenced article nmiller@starbase.trincoll.edu (norman miller) writes:
<Any suggestions about Chinese restaurants in the Coolidge
>Corner area?  Thanks.

	Nobel House is the classiest (it is a "Gourmet Chinese
Restaurant") and probably the best.  It is also the most expense.

	Chef Chow's House come in second in price, class, and quality.

	Of the cheaper places Yu's Take Out (cafeteria style eat in)
and Beijing III are best.

	There is also Hong Kong Kitchen (take out only) and Dragon
Gate, both of which have their menu high points and are pretty cheap,
but not very classy.

	All of these are within one block in Coolidge Corner.

->Spike

In article <1993Jan7.170533.3665@starbase.trincoll.edu>, norman miller writes:
> Any suggestions about Chinese restaurants in the Coolidge
> Corner area?  Thanks.

	I've never heard of that part of town.  However, having been to
every restaurant in town, I can say that none of them serve any
Chinese food that I'm aware of.

	Or did you perhaps mean one of the other Brooklines in New England?

:-)
Mark
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In article <1993Jan7.170533.3665@starbase.trincoll.edu> nmiller@starbase.trincoll.edu (norman miller) writes:
>Any suggestions about Chinese restaurants in the Coolidge
>Corner area?  Thanks.
>
>nm

We always go to Chef Chow's House on Harvard Street.  The
service isn't always that good, but the food is always good.
Try the vegetarian dumplings or the Sizzling Chicken.
Stay away from Yu's - we've found questionable items (i.e.
rodent droppings) in the noodles in the past.  Never tried
Noble House.  The Dragon-something place on Harvard Street
(closer to Beacon than Chef Chow's) is very greasy and I
would also avoid it.

Noble Hoise is good
Chef Chow's House, IMHO is a dump - lousy service,
	food is OK, but not always.
Bernard's in Chestnut Hill Mall - one out of two best in Boston, IMHO
	(and still in Brookline)

Alex
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Dragon Gate unfortunately went straight down hill when they got rid of
their old-fashioned, corny (not to mention cornstarch-laden),
American-Cantonese menu lush with pineapple slices and bright red
maraschino cherries served in an atmosphere that was dim not so much
for its romantic ambience but to save on electricity and changed over
to the standard hunan/szechuan fare that you can get at every corner
within twenty miles of here.

They still make a pretty good won-ton soup and egg foo yung, the crab
rangoon is better than passable, but the pickings are thin.

My favorite at Yu's take out is either Peking Noodles (lo mein noodles
slathered in basically seasoned ground beef) or their Beef Chow Foon.
Stay away from the "hot won ton" appetizer (it's called something like
that.) Although an intriguing idea and very well executed by that
Chinese restaraunt who's name I forget which is square across the
street from the Stanford Movie Theater in Palo Alto (memories of the
same drew me to this dish at Yu's) the results are worse than
disappointing: Boiled soup won ton rudely splashed with hot oil for no
apparent reason.

Otherwise I find Yu's good take out, and I'm sure the quality for sit
down is the same (they have a dining area but started out as take-out
only.) Yu's runs a nice looking buffet most hours.

Beijing III is notable for its solid predictability (which is a good
thing) and generally very friendly staff. Not to be missed are the two
huge predatory fish in the lobby as you enter, stark white and
pugnacious slithering past each other and some very nervous goldfish.
Try the Phoenix and Dragon dish from the specials list, and the crispy
fried beef, a surprisingly sweet concoction of largish hunks of beef
breaded and fried and tossed in the aforementioned sweetish sauce,
very good.

At Noble House, the "Gourmet Chinese" place (not very gourmet, fairly
standard tho good quality, much nicer ambience than your average
chinese restaurant, linen table cloths and real glassware) try the
Singapore Rice Stick (in the noodle section), a lightly curried noodle
dish tossed with various tads of lobster, beef, chicken, shrimp and
vegetables.

Chef Chow's is apparently liked for its General Giao's Chicken but
it's never impressed me, perhaps I'm wrong, but it's on par with
Bejing III and generally reliable.


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A couple of blocks away from Coolidge Corner on Harvard Street,
(towards Brookline Village) at the intersection of Harvard Street &
School street is Orchid Garden, a restaurant that serves gourmet
chinese food. The prices are about the same as Noble House in Coolidge
Corner and both the ambience and food are better than any other Chinese
restaurant in the area. 

Some of my recomendations:

	Royal Chicken delight (some variation of a crispy chicken in 
			       spicy sauce)
	Vegetarian Pan fried noodles
	Szechuan style Omlette
	Crispy Cod in Curry sauce (I don't know how this got in as
				   'Chinese food)
	Fried Bananas with ice-cream

For those who've been around in that area that place was first a 
Greek restaurant, which then turned to a great Thai restaruant, then
to a lousy sandwich place and now to a place that serves gourmet
chinese food.

-c