wa, so many PPMMs are coming. looking forward to seeing you all

But for the food, I will recommend the following:

For Northern food: 31st $ Halsted, Bei3 Guo2 Xiao3 Chi1, don’t' know it English name.

For Dim Sum: of course go to First Soup (Chinese into English), don’t' know its English name either, just near by Lao Sze Chuan. And there is Shui Wah. Both are in

I will NEVER go to JOYEE in , because their service is SUCK, that food is small and expensive. But they Do have lots of choice. Seriously, no Chinatown people go there...I will highly recommend to go to JOYEE at Halsted, just about 10 mins drive from , and very close to UIC. Dish is bigger, room is bigger, and service is much much better.

"There is one store serves for food" is Called Saint Alps'(something like that), but their drink are very expensive. It is originally from TW, but there are/were lots of branch in HK, or or SZ... it is a good place to chat. The rice comb which is $7.50 is worthy to try...Just don’t ONLY order the bubble milk tea there. It charges you $4 when other places charge you less and give you a much bigger drink.

Oh, the cute waiter you talk about is alike zizi(zhou yu ming, or that kind style , right?) I think that is him, but he left already.

Saint Anna Bakey is good but not the best in Chicago Chinatown, it is more famous because it is the first one opened in square. You also can try some bakery in main street -- Wentworth.

above .. just my throught and suggestion,

you know, people taste are different, i mean to the food.

老四川的东西头两次吃还是挺有感觉的，吃多了就不行了。。。

个人挺喜欢老四川家的三杯鸡（是带甜味的，不辣），香干肉丝（微辣），麻婆豆腐（微辣）。。。汗，可能自己能吃辣，觉得老四川的东西都不是很辣。哦，顺便提一句，他家的水煮肉还是水煮鱼（记不清了），不好吃，千万别点：）

如果mm能吃辣，可以去试试看重庆楼，他们是新开的，就是以前“食为天”的地方。他们家的菜现在吃起来做的都不错，口感比较重，比如有个四季豆和牛肉一起炒的那个菜很好吃（名字忘了），还有那个鱼（汗，名字又忘了，不是干的，带汤汁的，不知道是不是水煮鱼，有些辣，不过很好吃）。

mm反正有好几天，都可以试试，呵呵，btw，吃完饭结账付现金你可以要求打九折（不知道别的地方是不是这样，反正这里有这个规矩，但是如果你不提人家肯定也不会给你九折的。。。）

我就知道吃。。。

新开的重庆楼不错,其他的地方都吃的不想吃了.老四川是越来越差了.

shopping我觉得既然你们两个都住在michigan ave 上，到magnificent mile shopping是最好了。来趟chicago嘛，当然要看看chicago最著名的地方啦，就像去new york不能不去第五大道一样。到一般的mall 里面shopping,和别的城市没有区别了。其实downtown只要你熟悉，是绝对可以买到又好又便宜的东西的。实际上要捡最好的deal,一定要在downtown。而且要什么店子有什么店子，就算不买，那些名牌店，lv,chanel,gucci,tiffany,cartier。。。，去window shopping也挺不错的。各大department store,saks,neiman marcus, bloomingdales,norstrom, barneys new york,便宜一点的macys,lord and taylor,够你逛个大半天了。然后还有各个档次牌子的专卖店，burberry,salvarto ferragamo, steward witzman, max mara, tods ,便宜的 anthropology, hm, fcuk,bebe,bcbg,max studio,club monoco,几乎你能想到的都有。保准你逛到不想走。

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lord and taylor in Water tower is closing at the end of march..

so there are every thing for sale with big big discount.

哇塞, 谢谢楼上mms的建议, 我把它们都打下来, 带过去, 爽哦爽哦