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Horrible Chinese food in Belmont (Lai's Cafe)

1 post · Dec 28, 1998

AnonymousDeja News - The Leader in Internet DiscussionDec 28, 1998
 I'm posting this as a warning so that others will not
 suffer the same fate.

 On 12/24, I found myself back in my old neighborhood (Belmont)
 and decided that I would get Chinese food from the Ultimate
 Szechuan Restaurant on Trapelo Road (near the cinema).

 Alas, it has been replaced by Lai's Cafe.  I tried it anyway.
 I have never had worse Chinese food.  The 'chicken' in my
 Crispy Sesame Chicken was the lowest quality meat-like-substance
 that I have ever had the displeasure of chewing (briefly).
 I felt guilty feeding it to my garbage disposal.

 I will miss Ultimate Szechuan, it held its own (IMHO) against
 Mary Chung's, Changsho, Cafe China and most of Chinatown.
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