Post #440290 by woofmutt on Mon, Mar 16, 2009 7:35 AM

"I live in Seattle, but can easily travel to, say, Tacoma, etc."

I read that to mean you could easily get around.

As for finding places here's some replies to a similar query you made last year.

As Dogbytes mentioned last year the best old style Chinese restaurant in the Seattle area is the Red Lotus in Auburn. The interior is great and the food is good.

Red Lotus Restaurant
714 Auburn Way N
Auburn, WA 98002
Phone: (253) 833-6233

Second best is the China Doll in Everett.

Though it's one of the few vintage places left in Seattle I personally wouldn't recommend Louie's to anyone.

Yelp can be useful but I see bad reviews of places I really like written by people who obviously don't "get it". (Along the lines of complaining a dive bar is "divey".) And I see raves for places everyone else raves about which seem to be written by sheep.

(I see I was writing this as Torch posted his reply above.)