Annie's: Superior Service
I want to laud the staff at Annie's Italian restaurant. I frequent the location at Chaoyang Park, and the service is just always great! This makes a real difference with how you feel about a restaurant. They screwed up on my pizza toppings last week and they fixed it fast.
Mega-kudos to Annie's!




otto
Re: Annie's: Superior Service
It's like you have all these pinballs bouncing around inside your skull.
Every once in a while you open your mouth unnecessarily,
and with a dull, uninteresting "bloooop" a rusty, feather encrusted sphere just falls out.
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
V
Re: Annie's: Superior Service
I've been to the one near CY Park once. It was hard for my girlfriend and I to focus on the food. The table next to us was populated by 4 late teen or early 20-something Chinese students and one older (I'd say mid-50's) flaming queen. The group spent about 45 minutes loudly proclaiming their gayness and discussing various acts they'd like to perform on one another after dinner. Dinner AND a show! The food and service were pretty good too.
Cheers,
Watson
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Hey.....what night was that????
Was the 50-something flaming queen a foreigner??
herojuana
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Glenderful's "Brain": Made almost entirely of smoked ham.
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V
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Yup a gen-U-wine lao wai queen. It was about a month and a half ago.
Cheers,
Watson
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Surprise surprise.....
Anyway, back to Annie's. I know there is better out there but I always order from them. They are reliable and quick to deliver to my house
herojuana
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For delivery of Italian food there's no other option really, why would you not order from Annie's?
It's cheap and good and like Watson said, quick.
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spettro9
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Annie's has nice pasta..... very nice
here's another boring NewJersey/BeiJing comparison, but
I think Beijing's restaurants' pasta generally is trumping NJ's (and this is something we should take very seriously back in Sopranos land where half of us are ItaloAmerican)
but NJ has better pizza... by a lot
What China really needs:
- Bill Nye, "the Science Guy", to come teach them basic Science.
- Jared Diamond, Dan Brown, and Spencer Wells to teach them about world/human history.
- MLK and Gandhi and Einstein to teach them about what being human means.
Arcturus
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I finally understand what being 'Glenderful' means.
V
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Heh. Surprise indeed. Our own personal Crying Game.
My girlfriend thought it was kind of cute.
Cheers,
V
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For us true American Guineas (Tm) there's nothing like Brooklyn pizza/pasta and other Eyetalian food.
Cheers,
Arcturus
Re: Annie's: Superior Service
Stouffer's has better pizza. Fei Hua.
Ever been to Origus (shudder)?
spettro9
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good use of "fei hua" (it confused me at first)
yes IMO
Origus, Pizzahut, Pinqi - all kinda blow
Den, The Tree - all pretty nice
Kro's - really nice
but yeah, still miss back home for pizza
What China really needs:
- Bill Nye, "the Science Guy", to come teach them basic Science.
- Jared Diamond, Dan Brown, and Spencer Wells to teach them about world/human history.
- MLK and Gandhi and Einstein to teach them about what being human means.
herojuana
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Don't mention Origus in the same category as Pizza Hut.
Pizza Hut is fine, just normal pizza, nothing special but nothing wrong with it.
Origus is tasteless crap, they use barely any tomato sauce and cheese, also they are clueless about toppings, I've seen raisins on pizza there, f-ing raisins.
I refuse to stand by and let Pizza Slut be slandered that way!
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recrudesce
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Pizza Hut is Pappa Johns bitch.
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Arcturus
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Papa Johns pizza is so f-ing awful in Beijing, there are no words. I used to eat it in college, and I don't remember it being so bad. The tomato sauce they use here is sweet enough to make you gag. Their management, wait staff, and comprehension of the english language also leaves much to be desired.
recrudesce
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who eats IN the restaurant?
Its not fine dining, who cares if the staff speak English? They understand "Texas Heat Pizza" and thats all they need. Pappas is made to be delivered... with its delicious little pepperoncinis and cheesy goodness.
hhmmm pepperoncini.....
sooooo goood!
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Arcturus
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So I'm an idiot because I ate inside the restaurant once? Touche. No, they don't understand a f-ing thing on the phone either. Thanks for playing.
I speak pretty good mandarin, but my reading sucks. All I want is for them to know the names of the things on their menu.
spettro9
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haha
you're right, pizza slut is a bit better...
back home, i liked it fine actually.. not as good as small places, but pretty good,
but you know, once at Pizza Hut here, they had this smorgasbord Norwegian Fjord pizza with
- bread
- wasabi sauce
- smoked salmon
- some token vegetables
and because I was with my Chinese friend and his gf we ended up ordering it..
i tried it and was henceforth scared...
and it tasted just as weird as it sounded and looked...
it was his gf's idea to order it, and she also became scared too
my friend braved on and finished it...
(he also drinks douzhi 豆汁, that Beijing dofu drink thing that is a liquid version of chou doufu so go figure...)
What China really needs:
- Bill Nye, "the Science Guy", to come teach them basic Science.
- Jared Diamond, Dan Brown, and Spencer Wells to teach them about world/human history.
- MLK and Gandhi and Einstein to teach them about what being human means.
herojuana
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Only a Chinese person would order a Norwegian pizza.
And only a Chinese person could finish one.
Hahaha. Or a Norwegian, I guess. Loads of them in Beijing. LOL.
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Montana
Re: Annie's: Superior Service
I want a Bay Goodman Pizza from Rochester, New Your or even better a Late Night Garbage plate from Nick Tahoe's
God I miss east coast food
Smoke and Mirrors, the ability to hide in the shadows of life.
Watson
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Hey, you know Nick Tahoe's???? Are you from Ra Cha Cha???
Montana
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WATSON-
know it well from my days as a mis spent youth
Yes Rottenchester was my home town as a youth
McQuaid and Greece
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Watson
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Been stumpling drunk there many times,,,,
Ain't no party like a Rochester party cause a Rochester party don't stop.....
Montana
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Late nights in Charlotte,
Scotters and Muscle Cars
and who can complain with 99 cent six packs of Jenny Cream Ale?????????????

Smoke and Mirrors, the ability to hide in the shadows of life.
V
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Good Lord...Genesee Cream Ale (shudder). Blew through many a case of that rotgut in high school.
Misspent youth indeed...ya'll must be a bit older 'cuz it was all the way up to $1.79 a sixpack by the time I was old enough to drink. 
Cheers,