<p>I know its quite silly to make one's college decisions based on the on-campus food of a college, but I'm going to do it anyways. I'm Asian and I'd love to be able to have something oriental to munch on. I hear there are some Thai and Chinese places off-campus, but does the school itself serve something asian? Also how's the asian food in the town?</p>
<p>Collis has delightful sushi that is not badly priced</p>
<p>Foco, Homeplate have occasionally have asian themed dishes, the quality is debatable</p>
<p>Any of the asian organizations (DAO, etc) are always making foods, for example free korean bbq ribs last year.</p>
<p>In town there is a small asian food store as well as Mai Thai (Thai), Orient, and Yamas (Korean). Yamas is relatively new and is extremely popular.</p>
<p>I believe Collis has pho as well?</p>
<p>I think I’ve also seen packaged, refrigerated Asian foods at the Courtyard Cafe (the Hop) and Foco.</p>
<p>EDIT: There’s also a place for Indian in town as well (Jewel of India); nobody has mentioned it yet.</p>
<p>@ashencro Yama’s is horrible. Since you are asian, if you ever taste the food there, you will be appalled. It’s only popular because there aren’t a lot of asian restaurants around Hanover. It doesn’t taste anything like korean/japanese food. There is one Thai restaurant called Mai Thai. It’s “buffet” consists of 6 dishes and is rarely replaced. There are two chinese restaurants about 15 mins off campus which are pretty bad as well.</p>
<p>I think Collis’ sushi is overpriced and the Orient uses too much salt and MSG. Yama’s and Jewel of India are quite delicious, but I’ve only eaten there a few times.</p>
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<p>I had the buffet lunch there, and I thought it was surprisingly good. Of course, being out in the middle of a New England forest, I had low expectations going in.</p>
<p>I never said it was bad, i just said that there is not much variety. However, Mai Thai pales in comparison to thai restaurants in Cornell.</p>
<p>The Japanese Restaurant in West Lebanon is pretty good.</p>
<p>Yama’s is pretty good if you ask me. The Orient sucks but we’re hoping Yama’s will provide decent competition and get their butt moving. I love Jewel of India’s Sunday brunch buffet. There’s also India Queen, which hardly anybody ever goes to. Not a fan of Mai Thai, but I come from Southeast Asia and find the food at the buffet quite authentic, for what it’s worth.</p>
<p>On campus, most of the Asian food worth eating can be gotten cheap/free from the Asian student organizations. Collis has sushi once in a while, and the other DDS outlets sometimes sell packaged sushi too, but at really exorbitant prices (if you ask me; they’re at least two or three times the cost of equivalent food in, say, Boston). DDS occasionally serves Asian cuisine specials but I’m not a fan of them in general, though they’re not bad.</p>
<p>BTW your opinion of the food I think will vary depending on whether you are Asian, Asian-American, or not Asian at all. I’m Asian (as in grew up in Asia) and though I don’t find much of the food in the area authentic, I think it’s pretty good nonetheless – especially Yama’s. Most of the Asian-Americans I know love Yama’s and aren’t so big on The Orient. My white friends love The Orient for some reason. :-/</p>
<p>According to my credit card bill, my son loves Yama’s. But if Asian food is a priority, Hanover would be among the last places I’d head.</p>
<p>there is a new asian foods store across the street from collis!
also, there is mai thai and the orient? …something like that
ALSO, a new sushi place–yama-- recently opened</p>
<p>lots of good asian food</p>
<p>my favorite is the asian foods store</p>
<p>Yama’s isn’t that bad if you know what to order. </p>
<p>Orient is typical Chinese Take-out. </p>
<p>The Asian food served on campus is almost always horrible, including the sushi at Collis.</p>