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If you're going into Manhattan this week, kids, couples, friends, and combination, seriously consider Chinatown when it's time to eat.

It's a mere 15-minute bus ride on Third Avenue from Midtown (42nd St.) and food will be cheap, delicious, and set in the Asian community, a real treat.

Here's what I did Thursday following a morning Midtown shopping errand. I met my date on Third Avenue and we took the M-15 Bus (to City Hall) downtown.http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/bus/mhtnsch.htm

On route as only city bus rides allow, if you're like me your entertainment will consist of honking cabs and swearing motorists, or perhaps a biker, yes, a middle aged dude daring to ride in the traffic lane and shout at a truck driver that he was riding "too close."

The route is also ripe for getting a sense of the lower Manhattan commercial district. There are blocks and blocks of supply vendors, selling everything from toilet paper, to cooking appliances, refrigerators and lighting fixtures, mixed in with old tenement apartment buildings, tiny bodegas, and upscale apparel shops.

At Canal we exited, walked two blocks west to Mott Street, turned right, then a block to the corner at Bayard, and into Yeah Shanghai Deluxe Restaurant. It's signature feature is a colorful array of coy etched on the Mott St. window.

Here's what you'll find. Two substantial meals, our choices were sweet and sour fish, meat and seafood noodle soup and a plate of crispy seared sweet and savory pork dim sum for less than $20, $19.56 to be exact. The fish was flounder coated in a crimson syrupy sweet sauce made I am guessing of garlic, chili oil, honey and perhaps soy sauce. It was delectable and volumous considering this was ordered from the luncheon menu, a meal that of course included soup and rice.

The meal comes with swift,  polite service in an exceptionally clean and colorful dining room punctuated by Asian art, pretty teapots, and of course the window mural; and food  steaming hot brought out from the kitchen by the chef himself, in most cases.

Most memorable is the portions exceed a more stylish Asian spot uptown, at  prices that will make the experience memorable and you will return - this recent was my third meal at Shanghai.

Finally, especially if you have kids along on your outing, the annual "go see the Rockefeller tree and Fifth Ave. shops" tradition will be punctuated by spending a few fine hours amidst tourists and locals from all points on the planet.

To contact Yeah Shanghai Deluxe (50 Mott St., New York, N.Y.), call 212-566-4884.


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