Miss Asia: User Reviews

Great food, great service
By Megan2182 from Lakeview, August 28, 2009

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The best Tom Yum soup in the city. The menu selection is huge and everything I've tried I have loved. The service is always great.

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Amazing!!
By AndyTurner from Lincoln Park, April 25, 2009

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Total perfection! My wife and I eat there at least once a week. The food is 11 out of 10. The service is incredible. For the money you can't beat it. Bring in your own bottle of wine and eat an incredible meal, you will not regret it!

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Best Value in Ages
By Pariscope from River North, March 8, 2009

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Eating out nearly every night is hit-and-miss, especially trying a lot of new restaurants. Too many misses in the last couple of weeks, but a great "hit" with Miss Asia a few nights ago. BYOB got us there, but the Vietnamese food will bring us back. We both had Vietnamese rolls (cold and transparent with shrimp, etc) with a totally terrific and thankfully not pedestrial slightly spicy sauce. Then the Vietnamese crepe, crispy and filled with great stuff, and accompanied by fresh basil and mint and beansprouts and a killer dipping sauce. We've eaten Vietnamese on Argyle many times and in places like L.A., N.Y., and Miami and this compared with the best. And for $23. Will eventually try many of the other "offbesat" cuisines offered, including Malaysian, Cambodian, Nepalese, etc., after our great start with Vietnamese. And by the way, a beautiful room and lovely service.

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Wonderful first experience at Miss Asia
By JM from Edgewater, February 11, 2009

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A friend brought me to this restaurant for the first time tonight. The atmosphere was very nice and comfortable. The decor was tasteful and very well done. The servers were very attentive and pleasant. And, the owner stop by the table to say hello personally. I started with the Shrimp Blankets, which were very flavorful, crispy (and not oily in the least) with a delicious, spicy dipping sauce, giving you the perfect balance of sweet and spicy. I followed that with the Banana Blossom Salad, something unusual by my standards. The blossoms had a pleasant, florally taste. That mixed with strong onions, bell pepper, a hint of mint and ground peanut cooked in a spicy/sweet lime dressing, with chicken to "cool" the taste senses from all these extraordinary flavors, made for a wonderful dish. The meal was finished with some complimentary sweet, juicy morsels of orange slices. I thoroughly enjoyed this meal and would definitely be back!

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So dissapointed
By abrusso1 from Lincoln Park, June 23, 2008

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I was so excited to try a new Asian Restuarant as it is one of my favorite cusines. So of cousre I was even more excited that they offered soooooo many different types. And we tried it, it was awful. The meat tasted gross the pot sticker tasted like they had been in the freezer for years. The sauce was watery...

So all in all i cannot give it any stars. Love the concept but it needs a new chef fast!!!!!

Not horrible, but certainly not good
By jeev7882 from jeev7882, May 12, 2008

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Miss Asia is an interesting concept in that you can sample fare from across much of Asia. The problem is that, since they don't specialize, none of the food is particularly good. I went with a friend on an early Friday evening, no one was there, but the interior of the place is pretty nice, and the service attentive (as you would hope as the only people there). Miss Asia is B.Y.O.B. which is always nice, and there is a decent liquor store about half a block west on Diversey.

Now, to the food itself. We decided to sample fare from 4 different countries. We got the Soft Crepe With Vietnamese Sausage (Vietnamese), Redang Beef (Indonesian), Fried Banana (Filipino), and the Chicken and Banana Curry (Nepalese). The Fried Banana was good, but you could fry the tablecloth and it would taste good. The best of the dishes was easily the Vietnamese Crepes. There were quite oily, but there were also the only dish that had a good amount of flavor, and a good texture. The Redang Beef tasted exactly like goat, which was confusing. It was extremely dry, tough meet, and the flavor was decent, but nothing I'd order again. Lastly (and there's a good reason this is last on the list) was the Chicken and Banana Curry which looks and smells like every other chicken curry I've had, but tastes like...nothing. It was amazing how bland it was. You really have to try to make any chicken curry bland.

Overall Miss Asia was a disappointment. I gave it 3 stars because I don't regret going there, but I also will not go there again. I'd say 2.5 stars is a fair rating.