Tea Leaf 2
This Chinese restaurant located near St. Martins College on a main highway in Lacey offers more than just standard Chinese-American dishes. While you will find familiar items like almond chicken, sweet and sour pork, broccoli beef and hot and sour soup on the menu, you will also find less common dishes like white-cucumber bean-curd soup, black-mushroom pork, tea-leaf chow mein and shrimp with eggs. Pot stickers are available steamed as well as fried and lychee fruit is on the dessert menu. Family-style dinners are available. The restaurant is reasonably priced, serves lunch and dinner Mondays through Saturdays and is closed on Sundays.
Tea Leaf 2
4646 Pacific Ave. SE
Lacey, WA 98516
(360) 459-3800
Main Chinese Buffet
The extremely reasonably priced all-you-can-eat buffet offered at both lunch and dinner has created a loyal clientele for Main Chinese Buffet. The buffet offers dozens of entrees, a salad bar, a dessert bar, and even a sushi bar. All of the standard Chinese-American dishes are here, as well as dishes that are often seen on dim-sum menus like sesame balls and steamed buns. Seafood is featured on both the menu and in the buffet, seen in items like crab legs, fresh oysters and eel. The restaurant is open for lunch and dinner every day of the week and offers free, ample parking in its own lot.
Main Chinese Buffet
5580 Martin Way E
Lacey, WA 98516
(360) 455-8899
mainchinesebuffet.com
Shanghai Chinese Restaurant
When you dine at the Shanghai Chinese Restaurant, you can either order from the Chinese menu or assemble your own meal at the Mongolian grill. The almond fried chicken is a favorite of patrons, but just as many appreciate the all-you-can-eat grill special that comes with soup and dessert. The restaurant offers affordable lunch specials from the Chinese menu and is open every day except Sunday for lunch and dinner.
Shanghai Chinese Restaurant
4418 Sixth Ave. SE
Lacey, WA 98516
(360) 438-3661
Article Written By Maria Christensen
Since 1997 Maria Christensen has worked as both a freelance writer and an accountant. She authored "The Newcomer's Handbook for Moving to and Living in Seattle." Her articles on travel, lifestyle, parenting, business and the environment have appeared in various publications, including "ArtVoices Magazine." Christensen studied communications at the University of Washington and history at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Georgia.
