Help with Name of Closed Chinese Food Restaurant!
I’m hoping the longtime Ann Arbor/Ypsi folks can help settle a debate (or maybe just my faulty memory 😄).
I’m trying to remember the name of the Chinese restaurant that used to be in the large white building on the corner of Packard and Carpenter Rd., right by the White Castle. I believe it closed several years ago - 2013 or 2020? 🤔
Was it Great Lake Chinese Seafood Restaurant, or am I thinking of a different place?
Also, am I remembering this correctly, or am I mixing up two different restaurants:
I remember that if you dined in and ordered a dinner entrée (something like Szechuan Beef), it came with what felt like an entire extra meal included. I remember getting things like:
● Egg roll
● Fried wonton or crab rangoon
● Fried rice
● Soup
● A small serving of sweet-and-sour chicken
● Sometimes fruit or dessert
It seemed like an unbelievable value because the price wasn’t much different from other Chinese restaurants, but you’d leave absolutely stuffed.
Was that the restaurant at Packard & Carpenter, or was that another Chinese restaurant somewhere else in the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti area and I’m combining memories?
Lastly, do we know the actual reason it closed? Aside from high food cost! 🤣
Thanks in advance! I’d love to finally solve this little mystery.