Thank You.

Is thank you reopening anytime soon? Lost lake has reopened after the fire bit no word on thank you. There’s no info online and the link from land and sea doesn’t go to their website anymore.

Everything was salty terrible. We got food while having drinks and it was like someone spilled salt on the plates. It was so salty that we finished the drinks in one slurp and didn’t have more than two bites. Also the brisket meat was white, like pork, and tasted like pork. However, it was insisted it was beef. The waitress said maybe we didn’t have a taste for salt, bless her heart. She was sweet and comped the food without asking, but I cannot recommend skipping the food enough.
Yes to drinks, but for the love of God say no to the food.

I took one bite of the Dry Chili Chicken, absolute garbage. Should have gone back for a refund. I’ll be shocked if they last one year in business. I hope it all works out but c’mon people get it right.

Have always liked this place. Skip the egg rolls. The dried chicken chili and chicken wings are quite good. Peanut snack is delicious, the wife and I fight over them. Cabbage salad is great, but I’d recommend you not get it to go. Really needs to be eaten fresh to get the best out of it. The fried rice used to be amazing, and got progressively more «meh» every time they redid it. They occasionally do buns for lunch or dinner specials, get them if you can!

I 100% disagree with the negative reviews on here. I went to Lost Lake to have some cocktails and was given the Thank You menu to peruse. We ordered the chicken and kimchi dumplings and the Chinese BBQ chicken wings… and both were fantastic! The service was quick, convenient and the food amazing. I’m not sure if some of these people are expecting your typical Americanized Chinese take-​out place? If you are looking for that, go elsewhere. This place is creative with their dishes and flavors and anyone who can appreciate something other your standard sweet and sour chicken, or egg foo young, will be pleasantly surprised. The only downside is that it’s not in my neighborhood… but I will definitely be back to try everything else on the menu!

I HIGHLY disagree with some of these negative comments on here. Let me begin with the food here is amazing and foodies from near and far should be trying this place. I discovered this restaurant through a restaurant review on Zagat as 1 out of the top 10 restaurants in Chicago to visit. You can taste the quality of the ingredients in every entrée. I ordered the Egg Rolls, Chinese BBQ Chicken Wings, Steamed Pork Dumplings, Chicken and Kimchi Dumplings, Dry Chili Chicken (w/​White Rice), Northern Pork Fried Rice, and Salt and Pepper Squid. It is hard for me to even rank my favorites. Every dish takes your traditional recipes and reinvents them. Each entrée was cooked perfectly and the flavors and spices compliment each other. I cannot stress enough how delicious these dishes are and will be back on my next visit to Chicago. I completely disagree with the comments of the food being overpriced. If anything I felt they were dramatically underpriced.
There is a Tiki Bar next door called Los Lake where you can sit and grab a cocktail. Your food will be brought to you to enjoy. The atmosphere is chill, cozy and casual. I cannot recommend this place enough!

I have really mixed feelings about Thank You, the restaurant satellite of Lost Lake tiki. The food is definitely overpriced, but it’s also of exceptional quality; probably not worth what you pay for it, but they’re shooting a lot higher than the typical strip-​mall Cantonese quality, and they hit it pretty consistently. Still, it’s pricey. Second, there’s something to be said for having a limited menu that’s done well (it’s one of the things I like about Same Day Café, for example); but here, it seems like you just don’t have a lot of options, in a restrictive way. Finally, it’s a tiny space, and because of the Lost Lake crowd, the wait can be intolerably long. Thank You does a great job of making tasty, interesting Chinese food with quality ingredients, but they stumble in so many other areas, it’s hard to justify a higher rating.

The food was good. The pork belly was amazing and the pork fried rice was so good! I got it carry out since I live very close. The tiki bar looks like a fun time so I plan to eat there next time!

I’ve given this place 3 tries so now I can say with confidence that Thank You Chinese sucks. It’s one of the worst places in the city in fact. I love salty fatty things. I’ve had Doritos as dessert many times. But this place’s salt content gives me a headache and turns my stomach. I called twice to complain (I have never in My life until now said anything was too salty to consume until now). They hung up on me. I want even asking for a refund. Just a heads up about the possible error in food prep. There are nice flavors here but best I can tell, they are catering to people just shy of ethanol poisoning. Save your money and make a simple
Stir fry for your lovely spouse at home.

In my history of eating bad food at restaurants, I am very disappointed to say that Thank You has made the very bottom of the worst food that I have ever eaten in my life. I had looked at what other writers had to say in disbelief, but they were right. They were nice about it too. Considering this tiny restaurant serves food to such a charming Tiki bar next door, you’d think they’d try to step it up a little bit. I’m not sure if this arrangement is meant to be this way, or if Thank You is counting on drunk people to lose their sense of taste along with all other forms of discretion.
I had the Dry Chili Chicken, Egg Foo Young, and a Shrimp Egg Roll. All of these items were disgusting. The Dry Chicken was literally dry. I think I was eating more fried batter than meat. The Egg Foo Young tasted like tainted breakfast pancakes. It didn’t help that the kind of mushrooms chosen to serve with this dish made it look like the kind of fungus that actually grows on spoiled food over dishes that have not been washed in a couple days. The Shrimp Egg Roll smelled and tasted like the industrial cleaners used to sanitize the plates or just the kitchen in general. I hope I live to see another day. I’m angry at myself for spending the $ 20 on this nightmare of an experience.

We enjoyed the pork and chicken dumplings, and both were intricate, nicely constructed, and packed with flavor. LOVELY. Can’t wait to try more on the menu!

The drinks at Lost Lake were phenomenal with a ton of care, the food from Thank You though is average. don’t get the wings, they’re the tiny 10 cent wing night size that aren’t very good.

Thank You. understands good Chinese food in theory but the kitchen seems to lack taste buds. Seasoning for most dishes was either nonexistent or poorly balanced. The goat chow fun was the only dish worth eating thanks to strong wok hei and barely sufficient salt/​soy. The Shi Fu Peanut Snack lacked a pleasing crunch and mostly tasted of tepid tamarind. The Bang Bang Chicken Wings also cried out for salt and complexity beyond an oily paste of chili peppers. Very disappointing.

My husband has been wanting to try this place since it opened. However, we were both disappointed once we finally did. Everything we had was verging on being over spiced (not spicy, though some was that too) and over salted.
The best thing we order was the peanut snack. The worst was the fried rice. Considering the other options in the area, I doubt we will be ordering from there again.

The only really good thing we had was the goat chow fun. The dumplings were pretty flavorless and more dough than meat. The peanuts were covered in a sticky orange and ginger that I found inedible. Overall, the entire group agreed we would not come back for food, although adjacent Lost Lake provides quite good cocktails.

I ordered Thank You. while I was getting my Don Draper on next door at Lost Lake. Lost Lake’s tiki drinks had me a bit (ok, a lot) buzzed so my review may be biased.
I ordered the pineapple fried rice, 5 spice dumplings, and cabbage salad.
The pineapple fried rice was a definite all-​star. The Chinese sausage in it was slightly sweet but so savory! I wish I had more in my rice bowl but the pineapples also offered a necessary change in texture and flavor breaking up the savory fried rice with a sweetness that wasn’t overpowering. I could not get enough!!!
The cabbage slaw was… ok. Nothing more, nothing less. It has strong hints of ginger and altogether, tasted bitter. The dumplings came in a nice broth with little bowls and spoons for each diner. I believe we got 4 dumplings with our serving. There was a strong bite of 5 Spice. It was a bit overbearing and took a little away from the savory beef broth. If they put just a pinch less, I think they’d be onto something. The dumplings were oh-​so tender though!
For three girls, these three options left us enough for a meal each and I thought the prices were appropriate.

Probably the most salty food ever, even in comparison to chips and freshly salted fries. So that’s a thing. But I did enjoy the egg rolls! They were piping hot and came with a semi spicy mustard sauce (and soy if you want more salt!). Wouldn’t mind a sweet and sour sauce to give my mouth a break from some of that salt. The pineapple fried rice was awesome but it could use more pineapple and less salt but I already mentioned that. Im having salty flashbacks and feeling thirsty all of a sudden. Back to the rice — I’m used to Thai restaurants where they really load you up on the pineapple. So maybe they could add some fresh cold pineapple in there right before they serve because holy crap that’s a lot of salt. I mean I will eat there when I go to lost lake so :)

Disclaimer: I’ve only had delivery from Thank You, and delivery is almost always a worse overall experience than dining in. So take that into consideration. But still, not good.
Priorities for proprietors of Thank You:
1. Cute Brand
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89. Food Quality
It feels like what a college design student who was dabbling in chinese cooking would come up with. All style, no substance.

No thank you. I’ll pass. I sadly won’t be coming back to Thank you.
Another place I wanted to love but the food is all… just…so odd.
The menu is quite small so we ended up trying nearly all of it in our recent carry out order.
~Eggrolls — $ 5 for 4 mini guys — Benton’s Country Ham, Drunken Shrimp, White Kimchi, Beer Mustard, Plum Sauce. This one one of the dishes I found to be edible and verged on tasty although it missed it by a hair. Really interesting take on an eggroll with the addition of ham… and actually the ham overtook the flavor but hey, I like ham so I’m not complaining.
~Dryfried Longbeans — $ 4 — Toban Djan, Puffed Grains, Lime Zest. Maybe these are better fresh out when in Lost Lakes? We weren’t digging the flavors on these and neither of us went past a couple bites of these.
~Chicken Wings -$ 6 for 6 — Soy Glazed, Chili Oil, Sambal Ikan Ranggup, Fermented Cucumber. The cucumbers came in three thick cuttings in a seperate little container, unique touch. You can get the wings mild, medium or spicy but apparently spicy is the way to get them. My friend loved these but said Ooowwee, they sure are spicy!
~Mongolian Beef — $ 10 –Painted Hills Farm Chuck, Hoisin, Rapini, Chinese Celery, Coriander, Scallion, Winter Bamboo. I’ve had some bad mutations of mongolian beef in my day, but this… this is one of the most odd I’ve ever encountered. The meat itself was fine but the sauce… um…they need to back to the drawing board on it. It’s not good at all, has a really strange consistency that sticks black residue all over the container… yea…this dish didn’t make it past a few bites for us.
~Pan Fried Egg Noodles — $ 10 — XO Sauce, Mustard Greens, Orange, Zhenjiang Vinegar. This dish was pretty darn bland save for the little meaty bits on the top of it… and there were about 5 tiny little bits that added some good flavor. But… the rest of the dish was just… plain egg noodles. I mean, I ate it, I have no issues with plain egg noodles. but it’s not a dish worth getting at a restaurant or for carryout.
Final score, we ended up throwing out the longbeans and the mongolian beef, eggrolls & noodles were edible but not amazing and my friend said the chicken wings were really good. I’m a food beast and I haven’t thrown out food in… I can’t remember the last time I’ve done that actually. Gosh, I’m so sad because I wanted to love Thank You. Wanted to love Lost Lakes. Neither one does anything for me though!

Thank You has responded quickly to correct the often just early complaints.
There is no doubt that when they opened the portions were small (almost comically so) and the prices were high (way high as compared to typical take out joints). Quality was always solid but could not justify or support the price /​size.
However things have changed quite a bit. Across the board prices are down (a lot) and portions are up (even more). No longer is a Dixie cup sized portion of fried rice an option (for$ 11!). Now the single size available is hearty and less expensive ($ 10 and larger than the previous $ 18 large size) than before and has an egg yolk on top.
The egg rolls are still small but less expensive and tasty as ever.
The Mongolian beef has been super sized, served on a bed of rice and a much better value than before.
I wish they still had the original rice noodle dish, it has been replaced with thin egg noodles; still good just not as good as the previous dish. I’d also like to see a few other options: maybe a chicken or duck dish.
But the point here is that they have done a great job course correcting. The food is of high quality and now a good value. It pairs very well with the Lost Lake drinks and is a solid take out choice.
I would encourage those whose only experience was in the first few weeks of opening to give them another chance.
Bring back the Chow Fun noodles and I may even add a star!