Not to be confused with the restaurant of the same name down in Virginia... "VA China Taste." Oh wait.
This is the best place in WNY for real Chinese food (better than the half dozen or so others offering it), and one of the 10 best restaurants in the region at the moment.
If you don't finish your meal, it's China Waste. If you eat it too quickly, it's China Haste. If you put it in a blender, it's China Paste. If you forget what you ordered, it's China Spaced. If you add drugs to the meal, it's China Laced. If you spray some dude in the eyes because he's trying to grab your butt while you're eating, it's China Maced. And if someone eats all your leftovers out of the fridge and you don't know who, then it's China Vanished Without A Traced. And if you're virginal and have never done anything sexual like me, then it's China Chaste.
Oh wait.
What to get: Chicken w/ Eggplant in Brown Sauce. And about 10 other amazing dishes, especially the Spicy Diced Chicken.
What not to get: The American stuff on the menu. Orange Chicken. Sweet N Sour. General Tsos. You name it. Just don't. It makes God cry. And Buddha. And Chairman Mao. Especially him.
Also: It's not "the usual" Chinese menu. At all. It's real Chinese homestyle with a few Americanized fake sh**s mixed in there to pacify those that are afraid of real Chinese food and/or things that aren't loaded with sugar.
One of the very best restaurants in the Western New York area serving wide range of authentic Chinese dishes as well as some Chinese American crap mixed in there. One of the best places in the area for Chicken Eggplant, and Chongqing Spicy Chicken (which is called Spicy Diced Chicken here), and all sorts of other top-notch deliciousness. Some things are slightly cheaper at lunch time. But then so is your mother.
If you finish too quickly, then you China Raced through your dinner. Not sure why. Maybe because they're soooo busy here some nights that there is nowhere to sit. And the fact that 93.7% of customers are Chinese should tell you a lot. If it doesn't tell you a lot it's probably because it's trying to tell you a lot in Mandarin, and you don't speak Mandarin. Perhaps you speak Satsuma instead. I'm not trying to asuma that though. If I assume you did well on your SAT, then I'm an SATassumer.
Besides, we all know you China Aced your SAT, so.
The Spicy Diced Chicken is easily my fave version of it within a few hundred miles. They use real "numbing spices", the little heart-shaped peppercorns from Szechuan. They make good dumplings, hot pots, Lamb Cumin (with masses of cumin seeds all over it), but the Chongqing and Chicken Eggplant are my standout faves that I keep ordering, over and over.
If you called here and made a bogus order, but they logged your number, then it's China Traced.
The employees here are super friendly (I love the tattoo girl and the woman who mans, or womans, the cash register), and the chef has some very interesting quirks. You'll probably hear them for yourself, loudly, from the kitchen, if you come here often enough. Or honestly even if you come here once.
If you pretend you like it, but then insult it secretly, you're China 2-Faced.
I haven't had a dish here that I didn't like. Some of them I absolutely love. I can't decide whether I like this big delicious menu or the small delicious menu at Tasty Express down the road better, but what I do know is that we are exceptionally extremely lucky to have these two incredible authentic home-style Chinese restaurants right near each other right next to the UB campus here in Buffalo was used to have nothing like that at all.
But if you eat here too often, you'll have an expanding China Waist.
Since writing that, the other one - Tasty Express - has closed down. So while Peking Quick One and China King (Maple/N Forest) and Mandarin Garden still have great authentic stuff, China Taste is now *the* destination in WNY for real and delicious and expertly made homestyle Chinese cuisine. Which is why it's always so busy.
And I need to start going tanning again. I'm getting China Pasty. read more