The Journal News from Hamilton, Ohio • Page 39

Restaurant Thursday, November 17.1017 Journal.NVus. Hamilton l-'oirfioltl, Ohio Cincinnati's Wall Mee Restaurant: a small brook, white lions, good food By STEVE CLAKKE Journal-News Writer The first thing you notice as you enter Wah Mee Restaurant on Vine St. in downtown Cincinnati is the sound of running water. Thus attracted, your quest for the source takes you on a brief journey down stairway, past twin white lion statues and under a set of ornate chandeliers. Sure enough, there it is, included in a plant and rock display opposite the cash register and the picture of the owner with Johnny Bench and Joe Morgan a Wah Mr? llrjtauranl, SIS Vint Clnrlnnali tlakr Fifth St.

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and Friday and Saturday, 4 to 11 p.m., dinner. HKSKUVATKINS Not required, but recommended, particularly on weekends. small brook. As enter the restaurant proper, the next thing that grabs your senses is soft lighting and the soothing Oriental flute music in the background. Several paintings and other framed works depicting Oriental scenes hang on the walls, and what resemble fine wooden bird cages, except that they are filled with plants, dot the inside.

The whole tiling is subdued and pleasant, unexpected in downtown anywhere, let alone downtown Cincinnati. To some of you, the name Wah Mee SPECIALTIES HecommpndDd are Lobster a la Wah Mee, Uchee rial Kew. Sesame Chicken, South Sea Chi ctcn, Lichee. Duck. Wah Mee SLcak, Mongolian Beef, Peking Pork, Gai Kcw Steak, Stechuan Spiced and Prawns Over Sizzling Rice.

PKtcR Dinner, 11.25 mosl between J6.25 and 13.50; lunch, 17.55 to K2S. CHKDITCAKUS Visa (Hankamericardl, Mailer Charge, American Express and Diner's Club. PORK SHOULDER ROLL It's cooked in (hi 1 oven ralher than on top of the range. smoked pork shoulder roll, about 'i pounds cloves cup red wine vinegar cup water 1 bay leaf Uemoyc nul.covcriiig from pork roll. Insert cloves, about 2 inches apart, the roll.

Place in a casserole into which it ju.sl fits; add the remaining ingredients. t'ovc-r lightly. Buke in a 325-degrce oven (no need to lirchcat) until a fork inserted in the center of the meat tw isls easily 35 to 45 minutes per pound. Remove meal lo a sen-ing plate and let stand 10 lo 20 minutes before slicing. Turkey A Dreising- Giblet Gravy i BIEF-HAW-CHICKEW Buttered Noodles-Mashed Sweet Potatoes Rolls Vegetable Salad nder3.

$1.00 may sound familiar. But if you haven't been to the restaurant in the last year or so, you may not be as familiar with its new location. For 25 years Wah Mee was a mainstay on E. McMillan St. in Peebles Corner.

The restaurant serves lunch and dinner and can, with 12 to 24 hours notice, accommodate groups of 10 to 200 persons. You also can order for carryout. The dinner menu features a full array of entrees, making it next to impossible, especially if you're a novice at eating a la Chinese, to decide what to try. It all sounds curiously interesting and, at the same time, so foreign. In addition to duck, beef, pork, seafood and fowl plates, you can choose from regular istandbys like Suey, Chow Mein; Egg Foo Young and fried rice.

Under the menu listing entitled "The Wah Mee Highly Recommends" are several slightly more expensive dishes Lobster a la Wah Mee, Lichee Gai Kew, Sesame Chicken, South Sea Chicken, Lichee Duck, Wah Mee Steak, Mongolian Beef, Peking Pork, Gai Kew Steak and Szechuan Spiced Beef. Family dinners are available for up to six persons. Prices for dinner start at $4.25 for Chow Mein, Chop Suey, Egg Foo Young or tried rice and go as high as $11.25 for Lobster a la Wah Mee, which is lobster meat blended with minced pork, snow pea pods, black mushrooms, water chestnuts and bamboo shoots. Most meals, however, are in the $6.25 to $8.50 range. Appetizers, including egg rolls, Cantonese fried shrimp, barbecued ribs, fried won Ion, barbecued roast pork, rumaki (chicken liver wrapped in bacon) and parchment chicken (cut chicken wrapped in foil paper), are priced from S2.15 to $3.75.

Soups are from 75 cents to $2. For dessert, you can select from ice cream, almond and fortune cookies, sherbert, lichees, almond bean cake, Peking bananna and a couple of things called Thu-Gaok (a Chinese pastry filled with meats) and Oung Leong I Toy Gal'. (Chinese jello). The luncheon menu, of is not as large as the dinner menu, but the prices for the most part are $4 to $5 less. 'Besides the Chinese fare, there arc several American dishes.

Combination plates and a daily special are also on the menu. To whet your taste, you can pick from complete list of alcoholic beverages ranging from an 80-cent wine to the $3.75 Suffering Bastard lo make life better with every sip," the menu Dsisert 4 WALDO'S SUPPER CLUB Wumbia Hicks Manor Shopping Center Fairf ield, Ohio.