Is Buffalos Best Chinese Food Now in Canada, at Ming Teh?
At one point, Western New Yorkers didn’t need Fort Erie’s Chinese restaurants – we just appreciated these places as the closest thing to Toronto’s thriving Chinatown we could get without driving further into Canada. Only minutes past the Peace Bridge, Ming Teh (pronounced Tay), Happy Jack’s, and others offered especially interesting menus and settings, but throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s, things changed: Western New York became host to a couple of classy Chinese places, and the Fort Erie Chinese restaurant strip began to deteriorate. Then, after 2000, things changed again: our best Chinese places closed, and Fort Erie’s best one, Ming Teh, was taken over by new management. Thus, in late 2008, we found ourselves wondering whether the best local Chinese food was in Western New York, or in Canada. Our conclusion: despite its problems, Western New York’s food is better overall, but there’s still reason to spend the effort and gas to visit the classy Ming Teh… occasionally. We explain be
