Northern Taste — Restaurant in Chicago

Perhaps I came on a off day (Thursday), but the food and services were below decent. I expected a bit more flavor from a establishment showcasing Northern Chinese delicacy, but I was greeted with a very basic Chinese cuisine. The sweet and sour ribs dish had the ideal flavor but lacked a kick to it, and the poultry was not cured so I can still taste the griminess. The hot and sour fillet lack sourness and its spices can be summarized as msg, salt, and pepper. Then, the dish I was looking forward to, beef pancakes, came out short on flavor as well and seems like something I can create if I had gotten some pancakes from the market and stuff it with beef. There were two servers, but we were never checked on and they just continued playing on their phones the whole time. The setting was low light modern vibes with a traditional dining set up and ceramicware, wish there were music to set the mood. The only upside was the price, as it was quite affordable coming in at $42 in total for two people to come out feeling stuffed. Very hard to recommend Northern Taste as of this experience, perhaps I will need to come on a busy day...

While looking to satisfy my spicy food craving I stumbled across this place on Google on a spicy food near me search. I decided to go and check it out. Now after trying, im kind of torn on giving a great review. The good: the service was good considering I ordered pick up, the portion sizes are huge and the food was spicy enough. Now the bad: well although the food was spicy, i really couldn't enjoy my dish because it was very bland season wise. The major turn off though was a spice that was used in the dish in form of a seed. Once bitten into, it wiped out my taste buds completely to the point that took over 20 minutes to be able to taste anything else but that seed. Whatever I had bitten into cleared my pallete completely and the best way to describe what it tasted like would be radiating metal. You would have to taste it understand or then again maybe not. I would give this place a 3.5 for now. I give it another shot in the future and hopefully have a better...

They were open early enough for my lunch break which I appreciate. It's a pretty big open restaurant, more than enough seating. It was so early that I was the only customer so i mean service was good. Even though both servers were also having their lunch they were all about their job. The younger of the two had the biggest sweetest smile, she made my day. I had the Kung Pao Vegetable lunch special (at $5.50 you can't beat it). And i don't know if it was me coming off of a fast or what but that was the best kung pao sauce I ever had. There were some vegetables in there I didn't even recognize but it was delicious. The egg drop soup was very good, it actually tasted well seasoned and had the right amount of salt (the soup is included in the lunch special). I will definitely be...