I don’t know how many students on campus have heard of Mandarin House, but Restaurant News certainly has: The Web site rated it as one of the Top 100 Chinese Restaurants in the U.S. in 2009. In fact, this is where the Taiwanese Student Organization (TSO) organizes their annual 10/10 dinner, so it should be familiar to at least a small group of students.

A friend of mine repeatedly told me about “LuLu’s Seafood,” a Chinese restaurant that he claimed was so delicious and inexpensive that you couldn’t miss out on it. He’s Chinese and had certified LuLu’s as authentic, high-quality Chinese cuisine; I had to trust his judgment. As I entered LuLu’s, I found myself in a boisterous [...]