Restaurants & Dining
Food Dude’s Top 5 Chinese Restaurants Around Myrtle Beach

If you are lucky enough to be staying within the delivery area, you may never order a pizza again. And if you're outside delivery range, it's worth the trip to Myrtle Beach to dine at China Dragon. This institution has an extensive menu featuring Szechuan, Hunan and Cantonese cuisine, or as we Americans call it, New York style. That means made-to-order dishes rather than warmed-over buffet fodder and insanely large portions. Best of all, the price is right. Lunch specials start at $4.95 and the only items on the dinner menu for more than $10 are seafood dishes.

This Pan-Asian restaurant features Vietnamese, Japanese, Thai, etc., and is sure to please all of our American taste buds. The wide variety of dishes includes many different kinds of noodles (Glass, Udon), meats (Beef, Chicken, Pork, Shrimp) vegetables (bamboo shoots, water chestnuts) and flavors (Thai red curry, white wine ginger) – you get the idea. No matter what slice of Asia you've got a taste for, E Noodles can make it. And the second best thing they will bring to your table is the check – appetizers start at $2.95 with main dishes as low $8.95. At those prices you can afford to wash it all down with some saki.

I would be remiss not to incude at least one Chinese buffet in the list, which is perfect because there's only one I would mention – New China. With 120 items on the table, it has the best combination of quantity and quality. Many buffets have a bad wrap for recycling food and skimping on the best stuff, but New China is the exception. With hot, fresh food constantly leaving the kitchen and a variety of tasty dishes to choose from, it's easy to eat all you can eat at this establishment. In addition to all the traditional offerings on the buffet, the restaurant also features a menu for light or picky eaters. But the best way to enjoy New China is to come hungry and load up on the sushi, dumplings and other great chow that's available.