Ichiban

610 S. Park St., Madison, Wisconsin 53715

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• Spicy pleasures await the courageous diner at Ichiban

  Investigating a Chinese menu is like wandering through a big, old house. Lots of nooks and crannies, unexpected rooms around corners, and at least one room that you can enter three different ways -- not one of which you can ever remember. Here is where the dual menu comes in handy (see: Orient House, South Park Street's other new Chinese restaurant). The Americanized version provides a rough guide, at least, of what to expect. The traditional Chinese menu is like the architect's blueprint, if perhaps as indecipherable to the layperson.

  May 12, 2011