Ben Pao Restaurant   

52 W Illinois St
Chicago, IL 60610
312-222-1888
www.benpao.com

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At Ben Pao (part of the Lettuce Entertain You chain of restaurants), Asian fans can experience an adventurous blend of China's four great regional cuisines: zesty, robust Mongolian; light, crispy Cantonese; simple Shanghai and bold, enticing Szechuan. Settle into the picturesque setting featuring red soaring pillars, gold sculptured walls and soothing waterfalls as light Asian-flavored jazz pumped in from above. Ben Pao is popular with the lunch crowd as well as the early dinner groups going to the theater. Specialties include black-peppered sea scallops, seven-flavor beef, crispy garlic tofu, lemon-crusted chicken, tangerine beef, ginger asparagus shrimp, fiery Szechuan noodles and pan-fried wrinkled string beans. Also, don't miss the specialty cocktails, including the sake sangria (a blend of sauvignon blanc and silver sake with fuji apple, orange, lychee and red grape), frozen ginger ale (fresh homemade ginger ale, lemon ice and Skyy Citrus vodka) and many selections of Asian beers.