I've been settling for "edible" Chinese food ever since my beloved Far East Restaurant closed down in New Haven a few decades ago. I've since learned, that this location had a history of "Far East" restaurants at it, new managements came and went and re-incorporated it with the same name. It was an amazing location, just two blocks past the main downtown area, with their own (small) parking lot behind the building. If you were going to a show at the Shubert this was a hot-spot for dinner before the show. They had an indoor koi pond up against the massive front window, and everyone ate with chopsticks. I always got the Lobster Cantonese and mom would help me pull the lobster meat out of the shell.
There was also Blessings Restaurant. My parents liked that one but I was already in college in Boston by that time so I never experienced it.
These were serious sit-down restaurants, people didn't really "do" take-out there. There was no counter you could wait at for your bag of take-out containers (though they prepared them for you if you had leftovers from your sit down meal). Tea came with the meal, and so did a single small scoop of coconut ice cream with a fortune cookie resting atop the scoop for dessert.
Here, I go to Koyame. It's okay. And to me, "okay" means "tolerable" and better than anything else I've been to so far down here.
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