With a clear plexiglass divider separating the dining room from the kitchen, you can be sure the cooks here aren't using mystery meat or cooking up domesticated pets in your "kung bao chicken." On the other hand, folks squeamish about MSG and peanut oil will no longer be able to deny all the calories going into their Mongolian beef.

Despite the revolutionary kitchen design, the dining room here is a familiar conglomeration of black lacquered chairs, folding screens, paper lanterns, Chinese paintings, red vinyl booths and a monstrous 300-gallon fish tank. If you want to throw down, there's a private karaoke room outfitted with a 50-inch TV on the second floor, so you and your friends can do your best Bon Jovi impressions while sucking down BBQ pork.

The cuisine runs the gamut from spicy fare like Szechwan prawns sauteed in a chili-ginger sauce to more sweet Mandarin and Cantonese/American-style eats like excellent deep-fried beef with zingy ribbons of orange peel in a sweet, soy-based brown sauce. For health nuts those or looking to drop some pounds, there's an extensive "healthy delights" menu filled with no-MSG, vegetable-based plates.

Centerstage Reviewer: Michael Nagrant