A list of dont's for the Times restaurant reviewer

 Chris H. wrote:

 >Dennis S. wrote:
 >>I agree. But I have a much lower aim. I want to be able to make it through the
 >>review without bemoaning the state of writing in the Times. First mechanics,
 >>then content.

 >I don't get the paper, but I was curious about this review given the
 >thread, so I went to read it on the web.  This person should be shot.

 To be sure, I think that there are better food writers out there..Yet I
 wonder how much we can expect with given the Times budgetary limits ?
 I still think we should giver her a couple of chances before pulling out
 the proverbial rifles, no ?

 >Not only was her writing inexcusable, but the food at Chef Wang sucks.
 >Try the sweet & sour chicken (they call it the Hawaii 5-0, I believe),
 >and be treated to the chicken and vegetables sitting in a hollowed out
 >pineapple, soaking for the entire duration of your meal in an
 >incredibly sickeningly sweet red over-corn-starched sauce.  By the
 >time you get to the bottom of the pineapple you have to squeeze the
 >sauce out of the breading around the chicken before you can stomach
 >it.

 Thanks for the warning...

 >I'd give my right arm to know where a good chinese restaurant in this
 >town is.  My definition of good chinese is House of Nanking in SF.

 I have never found anything in this town, or anywhere else for that
 matter, that comes close to House of Nanking. I just try to come up with
 excuses to visit SF at least twice a year...

 House of Nanking had the line out front but I like Chef Jias next door. The food
 was better and you got a chance to watch the people standing for Nanking. But the
 "Real World, SF" didnt eat at Jias (they did eat at Nanking) so it didnt get its 15
 minutes.

 I liked Shanghai Garden. It doesnt have the yams that Nanking uses so often but the
 food wasnt bad.

 Dennis

 Chris H. wrote:

 > Dennis S. wrote:
 > >I agree. But I have a much lower aim. I want to be able to make it through the
 > >review without bemoaning the state of writing in the Times. First mechanics,
 > >then content.
 >
 > I don't get the paper, but I was curious about this review given the
 > thread, so I went to read it on the web.  This person should be shot.
 >
 > Not only was her writing inexcusable, but the food at Chef Wang sucks.
 > Try the sweet & sour chicken (they call it the Hawaii 5-0, I believe),
 > and be treated to the chicken and vegetables sitting in a hollowed out
 > pineapple, soaking for the entire duration of your meal in an
 > incredibly sickeningly sweet red over-corn-starched sauce.  By the
 > time you get to the bottom of the pineapple you have to squeeze the
 > sauce out of the breading around the chicken before you can stomach
 > it.
 >
 > I'd give my right arm to know where a good chinese restaurant in this
 > town is.  My definition of good chinese is House of Nanking in SF.
 >
 > Chris