Ming Garden, Nashua, closed for renovations

Drove past last night. Sign on the door says "Closed as of June 30 for
renovations -- see you in November." I believe it: the place looked
kept-up inside, including the fish tank.

Any suggestions for a substitute in the Nashua/Merrimack area? I'd like
comparable ambience (wife finds Dynamite 1 too noisy) and quality
(Grand Buffet is great on paper, but they mess up even simple items.)
AYCE is nice but not necessary. Silver Maple (Merrimack, by the old
Shaw's at Exit 11) worked, but I'd like to do better. 101A is a good
location for us, Everett Turnpike to Amherst.

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- David Chesler <[Only registered users can see links. ]>
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David S Chesler wrote:


A little South in North Chelmsford is the Szechuan Chef. This used to
be my favorite Chinese in that area. I found the Ming Garden to be
rather tame. They have excellent hot & sour soup.

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Dan

On 7/23/03 9:04 AM, in article
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I've been told that the Chen Yang Li in Nashua is not as good as the one in
Bedford... Always liked the Bedford one!
Cheryl

Cheryl Isaak <[Only registered users can see links. ]> wrote in message news:<[Only registered users can see links. ]>...


Someone told me the same thing!

Also, not Ming Garden related, but I read your review on Matsuya
(can't reply to it directly from the google.com website!) - we ate
there a couple of weeks ago and the atmosphere was so stale and while
there were many, many tables there, only a fraction were taken and it
was a Friday evening at prime dinner time. We ate Japanese only since
I'm very particular and leery of most Thai food in restaurants (and
especially in ethnic combo restaurants such as Japanese/Thai...oh,
that should have clued me into how the Japanese food would taste...)
and I was very disappointed. I had tonkatsu - the rice was gummy -
not sticky, but a yucky kind of gummy, and the dish just didn't taste
right. I'd eat at You-You any day over Matsuya. My husband had some
kind of sushi sampler thingie and he enjoyed it. I also ordered green
tea and was given only a tea cup with tea in it. I didn't even bother
to find out how much that little tea cup of tea cost. I'm used to
being given a little teapot of tea in other Japanese restaurants.
Guess I must be spoiled or something...

Anyway, after the meal I had decided that I probably wouldn't ever go
back again - I just didn't like the food or atmosphere and I knew I
could get better elsewhere. However, what really clinched it for me
was that when we got up to leave, I saw a man standing at the door to
the kitchen, just watching what was going on and he looked like he was
giving orders to the staff. My guess is that he was either the owner
or the manager, but I'm more inclined to think he was the owner.
Well, he is also the owner of the only Chinese restaurant in
Peterborough, NH - which has awful Chinese food.

The association is just too much. Ugh, never again.

N.

Cheryl Isaak <[Only registered users can see links. ]> wrote in message news:<[Only registered users can see links. ]>...

Oh noooooooooooooooooooo! I went and I didn't like it! Of course, I
am biased when it comes to Thai food. When I saw the menu I was very
excited, but when the food came I was very disappointed. We ordered
the 'crispy' pad Thai, for some reason I thought that *maybe* it would
be stir-fried and not as wet as you usually get in Thai restaurants in
the area, but instead we got a mountain of mee krob (why didn't they
describe it as such? who knows). However, they gained back a few
points when I told the server it wasn't what I was suspecting at all
and she took it back and brought out the regular pad Thai, no charge.
Too sweet. Too much filler in the other dish we ordered (I think it
was green curry). Yeah, yeah, I go into these restaurants with high
expectations so I can only be disappointed. I guess if you take it
for what it really is, it's not bad food at all.

The only place - so far - that comes even close to Thai the way my dad
used to cook is the Southeast Asian in Lowell. The cooks there are
Laotian, or at least they were the evening we went, but what we had
was good and not sweet at all. Must go back soon to try more dishes.
Yum.

N.

I said:

'However, they gained back a few
points when I told the server it wasn't what I was suspecting at all'

Oops, I meant "expecting" not "suspecting"...

N.

N. wrote:


Yeah, the Southeast Asian is the best I've had in a long time.
We're getting take-out for a party this Sunday.. Mmmmm, Nom Prik Oong!

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Dan

Dan Logcher <dlogcher*xspam*@comcast.net> wrote in
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Slightly off-topic ...

Be forewarned that the Lowell Folk Festival is happening this weekend. It
may not be as easy to get take-out as it usually is.

Mike W.

On 7/25/03 4:24 PM, in article
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Oh my - my hands down favorite place to eat! Bar none!

BUT - truthfully! I really liked that other place too! I found the Pad Thai
less sweet than others and the Larb Gai is heavenly!

Cheryl
(having a craving for South East Asian - I figure none that eldest likes
"yellow" curry, I might have a chance to go before summer ends!)

Who indeed? wrote:


It wasn't a problem. I called earlier in the day to check on how
busy it would be.. and when we arrived at 4pm to pickup our $120
order, there wasn't any traffic. Everything was excellent, and we
have leftovers.

BTW, they offer the lunch buffet on Sunday during the Folk Festival.

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Dan