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...really a negative, now is it? Add to that the buffet to satisfy all of your side-dish fetishes (cornbread), and you'll find the appetizers are quite honestly unnecessary. But as for the taste...when we took our first bite of an enormous brick of a beef burrito bursting with rabbit food filler, the long line at the Border became understandable. The shrimps and mussels prepared in a "Veracruz style" is aesthetically pleasing but is in reality a watered down version of a Manhattan clam chowder with the wrong ingredients. And then there is Rosalita's Whim, a sampler...
...with plants and Chinese paintings. Also, lots of hand-painted signs. Krinkle-cut fries on a styrofoam plate and a small ginger ale. Apparently, this place is extremely popular with motorcycle cops and women on their coffee breaks. Also, there was a scruffy-looking guy eating a big roast beef sandwich which looked even better than the turkey sandwich that woman had in Leo's Place. The fries weren't bad. It lacks that special sort of character which helped launch Elsie's and the late Tommy's Lunch into fame. Namely, people who are mean to you when...
PLACE LOCATION DECOR WHAT I ATE IMPRESSIONS WHY NO ONE GOES THERE Yenching Mass. Ave., in between the Holyoke Center and the Porcellian. Red, red, red with Chinese paintings. Lunch Special (Hot and Sour soup, Beef and Broccoli, Fried Eggplant and Fried Rice), tea and water. It seems like a pretty standard Chinese Restaurant. The clientele was mostly Asian; the service was okay, and the food wasn't terrible. I had never had fried eggplant before and I sort of liked it. The Hot and Sour soup had a funky consistency, though. The food wasn't terrible when...
...afford to speak for so many people of relatively little means. In Appalachia, the handful of elected representatives rarely see their far-flung constituents. The small farmers have a Grange that is a shadow of its former self and several small lobbies that are easily crushed by the huge beef, pork, milk and wheat magnates. Legal immigrants who are not independently wealthy, especially those from Asia and Latin America, have no one but their families to help them face the difficulties of making a fresh start as well as isolated or organized discrimination...
...tastes just like beef," Sammells says...