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2010 | Best Restaurant In a Cheap, Freeway-Adjacent Motel

Motel restaurants, when they exist, are typically eateries of last resort, places where dried-up chicken, overboiled vegetables and bland starches go to die. Open the menu at Formosa Chinese Restaurant, inside a Best Western-turned-Quality Inn, and you'll wonder what it was smoking. The first half of the menu is a depressing hodgepodge of fried junk tossed in sweet, sticky sauces or brown, cornstarch-y glop. The back page, however, contains the reason to seek out the place: a laundry... More »
2008 | Best Chinese Restaurant

With a menu spanning more than 150 dishes, cheap prices and specials on every page, Formosa is a foodie's dimly lit, claustrophobic dream. But the real fun lies in the motel restaurant's two hidden menus--the one written in Chinese characters on a whiteboard, and the one known only to the ornery owner, who's nevertheless helpful in your quest for the county's best Middle Kingdom grub. Stay away from the stuff you've had before--orange chicken, curry beef, fried... More »

Ten Great Chinese Restaurants in Orange County

By Dave Lieberman | Fri, March 16, 2012

Orange County doesn't have the San Gabriel Valley, lined end-to-end with great Chinese restaurants. We do, however, have Irvine, which is where most of these recommendations are, and where you can eat... More »
[This Hole-in-the-Wall Life] Chinese Three-Way at Formosa Chinese Restaurant in Lake Forest

By | Thu, April 24, 2008

Be brave when visiting FORMOSA CHINESE RESTAURANT in Lake Forest. Ignore the trepidation in your heart when you pull up and realize it’s in a Best Western hotel. Grin and bear it when the waitstaff nicely but assertively dissuades you from orderin... More »

2010 | Best Restaurant In a Cheap, Freeway-Adjacent Motel