What's your favorite PF Chang's menu item?

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xboxist

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I like the place OK. So I don't really give a damn if it's real Chinese or fake Chinese or white man's Chinese. It's pretty good to me. Lettuce wraps are badass.
 

amish

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dali chicken, so hot and good.

i don't really care that it is dumbed down chinese food. it still tastes good to me.
 

RadiclDreamer

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I've liked everything I've had there, but since the nearest one is like 300 miles away it isnt often :(
 

Fritzo

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The thing I found about that place is their schtick seems to be dressing up normally inexpensive Chinese food, put it on elegant dinnerware, and call if fancy so they can charge you double what it's worth. It would be like Arby's putting their menu in a fancy building and charging $12 for a roast beef & cheddar.

We have a place near us called New Empire, and it's upper class Asia food done right. I say Asian because they have special chefs from Japan, China, and Korea. Their food is served in authentic dinnerware (they use pots, "ladel" spoons, porcelain tea pots, etc), they have fresh fish----when I say fresh it's STILL FREAKIN' ALIVE in tanks...very cool place. You get all that and it's still 2/3's the price of PF Changs.

Like i said, we haven't been there since a food poisoning incident, but the whole establishment is like a "Californicated" Chinese restaurant- and by that I mean they serve simple food that is made to be unnecessarily pretentious.
 

Pepsei

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from a person like me who eats my fair share of restaurants and takes pictures of food (food porn).... i can only recommend 2 dishes that isn't half bad. Mongolian Beef (misnomer) and Spicy sesame noodles. sure, you can get both, cheaper and better somewhere else. but imo, they are the best two dishes there.
 

zerogear

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Originally posted by: Baked
I go to real Chinese seafood restaurants for Chinese food. You know what's funny? "Chinese" restaurants with high marks in Caucasian food publications suck.

QFT
 

racolvin

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Lettuce wraps are great there, everything else is too pricey for the mediocre flavors you get
 

Yreka

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I like the lunch bowls. Shrimp in Lobster Sauce one is pretty tasty, not a bad deal either.. I think its like 7-8 bucks.