Southland Savvy
Friendly service and generous portions of tasty food help Red Dragon Café stand out in a crowded field of Asian cuisine restaurants in the Southland.
Red Dragon opened a few months ago in a small storefront at 167th Street and 80th Avenue in Tinley Park.
Like most Asian restaurants in the Southland, Red Dragon is primarily a delivery and carryout establishment, but it does have two tables and a television if customers want to dine in.
Red Dragon is family owned and operated. One of the clan, Winnie Au (pictured), said her uncle is the chef and opened the restaurant after working at many other Asian restaurants in the Southland.
“One thing that sets us apart,” Au said. “Is that we prepare all of our food daily with only the freshest ingredients.”
Au recommends new customers try any of the restaurant’s signature dishes, which include salt and pepper pork chops, salt and pepper smelt and Japanese seafood udon.
Less adventurous diners can easily find something on the menu, which features staples of Asian restaurants such as egg rolls, wonton soup, fried rice, chop suey and lo mein.
On a recent visit, my group tried the vegetable lo mein, Mongolian beef, Szechwan delight and egg rolls. All of them were great. The servings were enormous and contained heaping helpings of peapods, onions, mushrooms, carrots and cabbage, noodles, rice and a slightly sweet sauce that was delicious.
Au said that dishes marked in red on the menu are spicy but all can be made without adding the hot sauce for those with more delicate stomachs, like me. “Just ask for non-spicy when ordering,” Au said.
Red Dragon offers lunch box and lunch combo specials as well as dinner box and dinner combo specials. The Mongolian beef lunch combo at $5.50 included a mountain of fried rice and an egg roll and could have fed two people.
The restaurant also serves fruit smoothies.
For more information, visit their web site at http://www.reddragoncafe.com/
Three out of four stars
Red Dragon Cafe
16651 S. 80th Avenue
Tinley Park
708-532-3388 (phone)
708-532-3399 (fax)
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