Miss Asia: User Reviews

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.