Four Season Chinese restaurant has opened at 5375 Cliff Gookin, in the plaza that also holds The Company Store.
The owners aren’t new to Tupelo - they once had the old Hunan restaurant before selling it. Now, they’re back in business with this new location.
No buffet, strictly order off the menu, but there’s ample seating inside.
The menu has the usual items: Appetizers such as egg rolls, fried chicken wings, fried wonton, crab rangoon and of course, the always-popular Pu Pu Platter.
They have a variety of soups, fried rice, lo mein, beef dishes, chicken dishes, shrimp dishes, sweet & sour, mixed veggies, and even some simple boiled food for the diet-conscious. Chef’s specialties include sesame chicken, moo shu pork, seafood delight and the four seasons (beef, shrimp, chicken and crabmeat with Chinese veggies in a brown sauce). Oh yeah, they have General Tso’s chicken (sidenote: who exactly IS General Tso? And does he miss his chicken? OK, bad joke).
Anyway, try it out if you’re in the area and/or you live in the area and hankering for some Chinese food.
The phone number is 844-2381.
Here’s a great write-up of General Tso and his chicken:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A59302-2002Apr16
Thanks for the link - it IS a great write-up.
Should I ever open my own Chinese restaurant, I’d have to get creative with a few dishes.
Maybe something like Mao’s Mu Shu Meat platter. Or maybe something exotic like Dragon’s Breath (something on a fiery plate, not to be confused with the Dragon and Phoenix dish served elsewhere). Or better yet, Dragon’s Wings! Outback has Kookaburra Wings, so why not?
SOUNDS GREAT, LOOKING FORWARD TO TRYING THIS OUT.
I love Sun Kai here in Tupelo, but I am glad there is another Chinese restaurant.
Will have to try it out.
After getting rave reviews from Dennis about this place, I checked it out last month. My friend and I both got $5 lunch specials and we weren’t disappointed. Good portions and good food. You can’t go wrong with a place that has the TV tuned to Chinese soap operas.
Swung by Four Seasons for lunch today. The restaurant now has a lunch buffet that looks mighty tasty. However, I was lured in by the posted special of chicken mushroom. Rice, ragoons, veggies, chicken, soup, spring roll = $5. Oh yeah!
It wasn’t busy at 2 p.m. (one table was occupied), so the service was extremely fast for my take-out. And, the owners have added a few new touches (signs for specials, chairs in waiting area, pictures of food) since my last visit.
I was on the west side of town around lunch time so, based on previous BizzBuzz reviews, I decided to try out the buffet at Four Seasons. It was around 1pm so there wasn’t much on the buffet. What I did have was good but I was a little put off by the sign advising diners (in all caps, underlined) not to get a new plate when they went for seconds but to use the same plate. Isn’t that a health code violation?
uuuhhhhh, yeah.
Well, since I’m going there tonight and ordering off the menu, I’ll mention to them that they need to change the sign/policy.
My Chinese isn’t that good, but it’s good enough to tell them that reusing an old plate is a no-no.
they may have translated wrong…..i would think it wont take them long to have that corrected..
Do they still serve everything on styrofoam plates with plastic forks ? It may just be me, but food never tastes as good that way.
This is the Dennis half of biz buzz: I’ve only gotten take out, so I guess we’ll find out tonight at the sit-down meal. The owners have been eager to meet my parents, since they’re from the same area of China originally (Hong Kong, Guangzhou).
Maybe they’ll break out the good, um, china, pardon the pun.
OK, so they broke out the Styrofoam plates and utensils, but also a few “real” plates for us. One of the owners was working, but his wife is in Hong Kong. Food was pretty good off the menu.
Didn’t get a chance, however, to mention he needed to change the sign, because he was busy cooking for us and a couple of other customers who came in.
Sorry to post on an old topic.
We had take-out from Four Seasons last night. Food was really good. Just a waaaaaaay too of it. I wish these chinese places would cut the prices of their dishes by a couple of dollars and reduce the quantity. Or at least offer a smaller size.