Cheap Chinatown?

Mark F. wrote:
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>I would greatly appreciate recommendations of good, reasonably priced
>restaurants in the Chinatown area.
>Thanks.
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>   Mark Forrester   --   University of Maryland   --   [email removed]
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Mark:

my boyfriend's favorite place in Chinatown is Tony Cheng's Mongolian Barbeque.  All you can eat for about $15.  It's sort of a stir fry salad bar with all the different ingredients set up around a huge wok that's almost 5 feet wide.

I like Hunan Chinatown right by the metro stop (Gallery Place), Golden Dragon on 12th or China Doll which also has an awesome bakery in it.

None of these are what _I_ would call especially cheap, but all have great food and some pretty decent ambiance.  Two people can eat for under $30 with drinks and tip.

Hope this helps.
Amy

There are some really good restaurants in Chinatown.  The ones I like to go to most are:
    o  China Inn
    o  Tony Cheng's Seafood Restaurant (above his Mongolian Restaurant)
    o  Mr. Yung's

The first two are on H between 6th and 7th, the last on 6th, between G and H.  None of these restaurants is particularly inexpensive though. In addition, I have passed by and seen the menu for Eat First (or Eat Cheap?), a little restaurant on 7th, between G and H.  It looks very good and is fairly inexpensive.

By the way, it is too bad that the restaurants in Chinatown are not more frequented.  The area to its immediate south and west are beginning to emerge from decay.  I hope this will encourage a renewal of Chinatown.

For a change of pace, you could also try Burma, a (surprise) Burmese (or is it Myanmar-ese?) restaurant, on 6th Street.  It's a little like Thai, a little like Indian, but with a few specialties of its own.  I usually just ask the waiter for a recommendation, and I'm usually pleased with the result.  Fairly inexpensive.