No. 56, The $7 Three-Item Combo Plates at Yu's Garden

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • July 26, 2012
This is not Panda Express. There is no Orange Chicken, no Kung Pao anything. Sweet and Sour? Forget about it. Instead there is chicken mousse wrapped in deep fried tofu skin; bone-in basil chicken in sauce-lacquered pieces; soy-simmered minced...
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