Despite all these years of driving by, and giggling at the name, I’ve never actually been to the famous Harvey Lo’s Yummy House.
According to this yellow pages ad, they’ve been in business since 1979. No small feat in this city, especially given that restaurants on some of the more pedestrian friendly parts of the city can’t make a go of it. Yet on this dirty desolate stretch of Wyandotte St. East at Marion, the Yummy House has been dishing out grub for 29 years.
Has any one out there eaten here? Any reviews? I’m tempted to give them a try next time I’m in the mood for Chinese food…
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Pfft. They have frozen Chinese food at Wal Mart...
While on the subject of downtown.
For anyone interested in some memorbilia Patrick O'Ryans is having an auction Friday November 7 2008.
More info and photo's are here: http://theauctionadvertiser.com/cgi-bin/slsearcx.pl?au=Richard%20Lavin&dt=20081107
I wonder why Patrick O'Ryan's doesn't just move into another vacant downtown storefront like Ye Old Steak House instead of calling it quits and letting everything get liquidated for 10 cents on the dollar. Downtown should be picking up now that the dollar's under 80 cents US.
Seems obvious to me David, he doesn't want to.
Take the money and run. He's had a month long closing party, and I'm sure he's probably made more money off the closing party in the last month, than he has all year.
Liquidate everything, and take the cash and get out. Bars aren't money makers, in fact most of them are always for sale.
Cashing out beats going bankrupt any day...
To reiterate what's already been said, Harvey Lo's is indeed a great Chinese restaurant with very cool decor. It was a favourite haunt of my family's when we were on the "eastside" visiting my Granny in Walkerville, although I haven't been there in several years. Other good restaurants include the Jade downtown, and the Wah Court on Wyandotte West, and Wah Court Inn on University West. Ya gotta love Dim Sum.
Yeah, I've always been curious about this place just because of the name. I recently picked up a pile of Monthly Detroit magazines from the late 70s/early 80s, one of which had a feature on the top Chinese restaurants in the region (I'll probably do a post on my blog at some point). Harvey Lo's was high on the list - it did start on University, where Wong's Eatery replaced it (Lo and Wong were partners in the earlier incarnation of Yummy House, then opened their own restaurants in '79). My father and I loved the rainbow fold at Wong's.
LOL i love the names these places consistantly come up with!!!
one time, my brother was driving out east and just HAD to call me from like new brunswick or something to tell me about the name of a chinese resturant he had just passed.
it's name was "HO-LEE-CHOW" HAHAHAHA ohhh i couldn't stop laughing at it.
holy chow!!!
Aaron, I agree. Some of them are great.
I really liked Kung Food in Detroit:
http://internationalmetropolis.com/?p=143
lol *sniff* ahhhh that's fantastic lol
Aaron, but first place has to go to South Park's "Shitty Wok". :)