Bellingham, WA is located along Bellingham Bay, about 80 miles north of Seattle. The city offers a variety of attactions, including the Bellingham Museum, the Mount Baker Theatre and Sehome Hill Park. Visitors to Bellingham can choose from numerous dining options, including several Chinese restaurants that include all-you-can eats and take-outs for a picnic in the park.
Lychee Buffet is an all-you-can-eat restaurant located near the York neighborhood of southern Bellingham. The buffet features traditional dishes from the Peking, Hunan, Szechwan and Cantonese regions of China. On weekends and holidays, the buffet also includes fresh seafood and sushi. The restaurant also has a dinner menu that includes Szechuan hot and spicy prawns, which are marinated in egg white, spices and Chinese wine and then stir-fried with onions and fresh ginger and served in hot peppers and a tomato-based sauce. Lychee Buffet serves lunch and dinner daily and is open for all holidays. Reservations are not accepted. Casual attire is appropriate. The restaurant offers reduced rates for children eating from the buffet.
Lychee Buffet
819 Lakeway Drive
Bellingham, WA 98229
360-756-0830
lycheebuffet.net
Xing's Panda Palace is a Chinese eat-in and takeout restaurant located in Bellingham's Sunset Square shopping center. The menu begins with 14 appetizers, including Szechuan dumplings in sesame sauce, crispy bean curd and roast pork egg rolls. A specialty entrée is Seven Stars Around the Moon, a dish for for two that consists of crab meat, scallops, shrimp, corn, snow peas, water chestnuts and fresh mushrooms encircled by jumbo shrimp and crab rangoon. With two hours notice, the restaurant will prepare Peking duck, a carved whole bird served with scallion pancakes, scallions and shredded cucumbers with a hoisin sauce. Xing's Panda Palace is open for lunch and dinner daily. Reservations are not accepted. Casual attire is the norm.
Xing's Panda Palace
1145 East Sunset Drive 115
Bellingham, WA 98226
360-752-1818
pandapalacebellingham.com
Oriento Fine Chinese Cuisine is located in the Columbia neighborhood of northern Bellingham. Leading the menu are 10 appetizers, including cheese wontons, potstickers and fried prawns. The restaurant features enoki mushrooms, a rare Chinese delicacy that the chef prepares in a choice of white wine, house brown, Szechuan or black bean sauces, paired with a choice of chicken, beef, prawns or all three. Also among the features are the sizzling hot plates, such as the sweet and spicy garlic made with U.S.D.A. choice center-cut New York strip steak. The restaurant has a full bar. Oriento Fine Chinese Cuisine serves lunch and dinner Monday through Saturday, but is closed on Sundays. Reservations are accepted. Casual attire is suggested, and a children's menu is available.
Oriento Fine Chinese Cuisine
2500 Meridian St.
Bellingham, WA 98225
360-733-3322
orientobellingham.com
