While many people visit Chicago to shop at high-end retail stores and dine in five star restaurants, tourists can also find plenty to see and do in Chicago's suburbs. Outside of Downtown Chicago, guests can try their swing at championship golf courses, explore spacious parks, or simply enjoy a drive through the less populated areas of Chicagoland. Chicago's suburbs also offer a wealth of Chinese restaurants.
China House Restaurant is a casual Chinese eatery with earth-toned walls, blonde wood tables and ornate decorations. This restaurant offers selections reflecting a variety of Chinese cooking styles, including Hunan, Cantonese and Szechuan. Guests can choose from appetizers such as egg rolls, pot stickers, crab rangoon or Cantonese fried shrimp. Entrees include sweet and sour shrimp, beef with tomatoes and ginger, moo shu pork and chicken with garlic sauce. The menu provides a section for vegetarians, offering dishes such as kung pao tofu, vegetable egg rolls and moo shu vegetables.
China House Restaurant
1201 Theodore St.
Crest Hill, IL 60435
(815) 741-8141
chinahouseinc.com
This restaurant, with its white tablecloths and minimalist décor, offers a relaxed ambiance suitable for a date or a business lunch. The menu features appetizers such as chicken lettuce wraps, pepper calamari, stuffed crab claws and spring rolls. Entrée choices include baby clams in black bean sauce, deep fried oysters, hong sue pork and chicken chop suey. Vegetarians can choose from a surprisingly long list of tofu and vegetable dishes, including tomato pepper tofu, Buddhist delight, steamed spinach with garlic sauce and black mushroom tofu.
House of Emperor Chinese Cuisine
1212 S. Naper Blvd.
Naperville, IL 60540
(630) 983-8284
houseofemperorchinese.com
This casual Chinese restaurant in Joliet offers an array of New York-style Chinese entrees and appetizers. Enlai's menu lists appetizers such as shrimp toast, cold noodles with sesame sauce, fried chicken wings and fantail shrimp. Soup choices include hot and sour, vegetable tofu and subgum wonton. Guests can select from entrees such as pineapple chicken, moo shu beef, ma po tofu with pork and spicy shrimp. There are several choices for vegetarians, including steamed vegetables, deep fried tofu and Buddha's Delight.
Enlai Chinese Restaurant
2356 Essington Road
Joliet, IL
(815) 254-9988
enlairestaurant.com
