Dear Chinese Food Lovers; Tasty - it is the name of a new Chinese restaurant at Highland Plaza. If you like more authentic chinese dishes, I strongly recommend this place. The food is pretty good. Try some dishes that you havn't seen in the regular menu at other Americanized Chinese restaurants. Price is pretty good, too. One wish - I wish they serve the food on a regular dish, not on a disposable foam dish. What the heck! You can take it out and enjoy the food at home. JK
Pittsburgh, PA
Tasty - A Place for Chinese Food Lovers
Excerpts from netnews.pgh.food: 4-Feb-96 Re: Tasty - A Place for Chi..
by Paul S [email removed]
> Where's Highland Plaza?
It's a little mini-mall on Highland Ave, next to Casbah, in Shadyside.
It might be worth mentioning that Tasty has changed ownership once since
they opened.
I didn't think the food was so great in either case, but it has
improved. There's nothing to set it's menu apart, I feel, but the
cooking is generally less oily, less salty, and less bogus than a lot of
counter-top chinese around here.
"China House" in Bloomfield opened recently. It's cheap, and set up
almost identical to Tasty. I think that setup is starting to become some
sort of standard around here. Speckled linoleum floors, white formica
counters, benches or standard naughahyde chairs with bolted down formica
tables. Back-lighted signs that show pictures of standard/"specialties".
A pile of ticketed green and red menus. a quart-sized soup container
full of uncooked rice holding pens and pencils. a cooler of sodas. a
stand for plastic forks, napkins and the orange packets of goo. a bunch
of family members talking to each other at the top of their lungs
looking slightly annoyed for some reason or another.
And a long narrow kitchen leading back to an industrial cooler with
big-ass burners and woks that you get to see your food crazily being
tossed about.
take-out chinese. the most brutal food you can think of.