Orange chicken at Oriental Restaurant

918 S. Belt Highway, 232-3001

If you like Chinese food, you'll want to check out Oriental Restaurant on the South Belt Highway.

It sits back from the road across the street from O'Reilly Auto Parts, so you might not notice it if you aren't too observant. Inside, it's a very attractive restaurant with the customary Far East decor complete with a small bridge that takes you over to a full bar.

General Tso's chicken is the most popular dish, we were told, but if you don't like spicy, there is a large menu of traditional selections. They also offer a lunch special that comes with fried rice, egg drop soup and an egg roll or crab rangoon for less than $7. And they recently added some less-familiar appetizers, such as edamame, which is a green soybean. Oriental restaurants traditionally have never been big on desserts, but if you are craving more than a fortune cookie, Oriental now offers the decadent Italian dessert tiramasu.

Oriental Restaurant is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays and until 9:30 p.m on the weekends.