Top notch
DESCRIPTION: Much better than average Chinese fair in columbus. Presentation far above average, food very good.
DATE: 2005-02-12
FOODRATING : 8
SERVICERATING : 8
AMBIANCERATING : 8
OVERALLRATING : 8
RECOMMENDED DISHES : haven't had a bad one yet.

Awesome Place
DESCRIPTION: This place is awesome. I've tried other Chinese place and found myself looking for something better and once I tried Joy Food one I fell in love. It's the best food in columbus!
DATE: 2005-11-18
FOODRATING : 10
SERVICERATING : 10
AMBIANCERATING : 10
OVERALLRATING : 10
RECOMMENDED DISHES : Chicken lo mein

Best Thai Food Ever
DESCRIPTION: For my work, I travel all around the country and whenever I can I go to Thai Resturants. I can honestly say that Arloi Dee has the best Thai food I have ever tasted.
DATE: 2002-03-09
FOODRATING : 10
SERVICERATING : 8
AMBIANCERATING : 6
OVERALLRATING : 10
RECOMMENDED DISHES : Pa-Nang, Gang Gai

Better in Mason
DESCRIPTION: We dine at Arloi at least once a week. We crave their tasty dishes.
DATE: 2002-11-18
FOODRATING : 10
SERVICERATING : 10
AMBIANCERATING : 6
OVERALLRATING : 8
RECOMMENDED DISHES : Crazy Noodles

TRY THIEIR TIGER TEARS
DESCRIPTION: THE FOOD IS GOOD AND THE PRICE IS REASONABLE.
DATE: 2002-12-18
FOODRATING : 8
SERVICERATING : 8
AMBIANCERATING : 6
OVERALLRATING : 4
RECOMMENDED DISHES : TIGER TEAR- THAI BEEF SALAD

Review of Arloi Dee - downtown location
DESCRIPTION: The food is pretty good. I do have a problem with the take out service. We order from our office all the time and our order is right 1 out of 4 times. Sometimes food is forgotten, and another trip needs to be made to the restaurant, which, as you can imagine, is very disturbing and inconvenient.
DATE: 2003-01-17
FOODRATING : 4
SERVICERATING : 4
AMBIANCERATING : 6
OVERALLRATING : 4
RECOMMENDED DISHES : Fried Rice

Closed
DESCRIPTION: closed in 2003.
DATE: 2004-01-05
OVERALLRATING : 6

good food and atmosphere. very clean
DESCRIPTION: Best food in N.Canton for Chinese and American foods
DATE: 2005-04-17
FOODRATING : 10
SERVICERATING : 10
AMBIANCERATING : 10
OVERALLRATING : 10
RECOMMENDED DISHES : Chicken stir-fry

The Best Asian food Ever!
DESCRIPTION: If you are not certain about this restaurant, you must try it! The food is delicious and the service is great!!! A few times in and Jenny will know you by first name! The eggrolls are the best I have ever had and will continue to do business with them personally as well as professionally!
DATE: 2005-10-04
FOODRATING : 10
SERVICERATING : 10
AMBIANCERATING : 10
OVERALLRATING : 10
RECOMMENDED DISHES : Honey Chicken & eggrolls! (Everything!)

One of the top Asian eateries in Columbus
DESCRIPTION: Great combination of Chinese, Korean and Japanese. Fresh sushi and the best shimp w/ lobster sauce in the state (and I've tried them all!)
DATE: 2005-05-28
FOODRATING : 10
SERVICERATING : 8
AMBIANCERATING : 8
OVERALLRATING : 10
RECOMMENDED DISHES : Shrimp w/ lobster sauce

Best Sushi in Columbus
DESCRIPTION: Don't let the plaza atmosphere fool you. This modern Asian restaurant is the best kept secret in Gahanna. I've had sushi everywhere possible in Columbus but this is the real deal. My husband enjoys their dinner selections as well and if you like things spicy just tell them and their make it to your flare.
DATE: 2006-04-06
FOODRATING : 10
SERVICERATING : 8
AMBIANCERATING : 8
OVERALLRATING : 10
RECOMMENDED DISHES : SUSHI, SUSHI, SUSHI!!!

Greatest Sushi Ever!
DESCRIPTION: Don't let the location turn you away from this superb restaurant. This is by far the best sushi I have ever had while in the city of Columbus and its suburbs.
DATE: 2006-04-21
FOODRATING : 10
SERVICERATING : 8
AMBIANCERATING : 8
OVERALLRATING : 10
RECOMMENDED DISHES : Spicy Tuna Roll; Spicy Salmon Roll; Morse Roll

CLOSED FOR BUSINESS
DESCRIPTION: CLOSED FOR BUSINESS
DATE: 2004-09-14
OVERALLRATING : 8
RECOMMENDED DISHES : CLOSED FOR BUSINESS

Variety!
DESCRIPTION: The Convention Center is an increasingly popular place for downtown workers. Some of my favorite downtown food is in the food court. The Chicken 'n Eggs has excellent as does several other places on the court. Some of the lesser known names offer home cooked meals prepared from high quality ingredients. The birds flying around the raised ceiling can be a bit annoying, sitting in the area with the lower ceiling is a better choice.
DATE: 2004-03-13
FOODRATING : 10
SERVICERATING : 8
AMBIANCERATING : 6
OVERALLRATING : 8

Overpriced at night, go for lunch
DESCRIPTION: Weia Teia has improved a lot, but it's still too pricey to eat there, especially for dinner. I am speaking, of course, as a college student without a lot of money to throw around. Go for lunch - you get free soup (even if it's not the best thing in the world) and the prices are literally HALVED. It's a great place to go with friends to have lunch on a rainy day and feel like you're out at a nice restaurant. It's a pretty nice place to go eat.
DATE: 2006-02-04
FOODRATING : 8
SERVICERATING : 6
AMBIANCERATING : 6
OVERALLRATING : 6
RECOMMENDED DISHES : strip steak, MASHED SWEET POTATOS, soy-glazed salmon

WHAT A REAL TREAT!
DESCRIPTION: We eat out quite a bit and this is our favorite restaurant. The food is excellent and the presentation is awesome. We love it!
DATE: 2005-04-21
FOODRATING : 10
SERVICERATING : 10
AMBIANCERATING : 8
OVERALLRATING : 10
RECOMMENDED DISHES : Salmon in Curry,my favorite.

Best restaurant in Oberlin!!
DESCRIPTION: Are you sure we are talking about the same Weia Teia? Not Tu Chinoia? It's a great place to go, and you can't miss it when you come to Oberlin. Oberlin is such a small town. Our favorite Oberlin Music is closed last month. What else can you complain? Do you want to kick it out of the town like Oberlin Music? The food there is wonderful. My boyfriend and his parents are all from NY.They all thought that the food there is really good with an amazingly reasonable price!!They are those ppl who can get the access to the best restaurants in NY which you need to have some special connections to the host or it's impossible to get in.They all loved Weia Teia!! I think those mean comments are not for Weia Teia. It sounds like another restaurant in twon. Give it a try!!You'll love it!!
DATE: 2004-04-24
FOODRATING : 10
SERVICERATING : 8
AMBIANCERATING : 10
OVERALLRATING : 10
RECOMMENDED DISHES : Grilled Chicken in rice paper roll (salad) and Pepsi shrimp and cucumber salads(appetizer)

I love it!!
DESCRIPTION: The Service is excellent, friendly, and speedy. There is the best food I had ever had! Much better than any other chinese resteraunt I ever ate at!
DATE: 2004-02-28
FOODRATING : 10
SERVICERATING : 10
AMBIANCERATING : 8
OVERALLRATING : 10
RECOMMENDED DISHES : Sweet and Sour Chicken, Spring Rolls, and Egg Drop Soup

EXCELLENT... EXCELLENT... EXCELLENT
DESCRIPTION: I can't imagine anyone not loving Weia Teia in its new Oberlin location. The food is amazing in its presentation and taste. And, what a bargain for lunch. For $7.00 I had a fantastic curry cream soup, sweet potato fries overlaid with perfectly done tempura type Tiger Shrimp, a pile of rice noodles, and just the perfect touch of spinach. My 88 year old father who has eaten in restaurants around the world said he felt it was the best meal he had ever eaten. The desserts are a bit more pricy but are works of art!
DATE: 2004-02-11
FOODRATING : 10
SERVICERATING : 8
AMBIANCERATING : 10
OVERALLRATING : 10

Amazing
DESCRIPTION: Honestly, the best food in the world. I am from New York City, and I have never eaten food like this. Weia Teia is a treasure. I've eaten just about everything on the menu, and I have never been even a tiny bit disappointed. The food is sort of a Thai/French fusion; French dishes made with Thai ingredients. Truly outstanding.
DATE: 2001-10-10
FOODRATING : 10
SERVICERATING : 8
AMBIANCERATING : 8
OVERALLRATING : 10
RECOMMENDED DISHES : steak, shrimp pad thai, crab/avacado tower, salmon cakes, chicken teriyaki salad

Fusion failure
DESCRIPTION: In short, Weia Teia is unimaginative food meets overimaginative presentation. All flash and no substance. Come on Oberlin, don't let these people behind Weia Teia knock you over the head and play you for idiots! Weia Teia has simply tried to hitch a ride on the global fusion craze, but has missed the point terribly. Creating fusion cuisine is not about dressing up poorly prepared asian dishes with new names and tasteless decorations, it's about creating something new and exciting. And that element is what Weia Teia lacks most. Full of pretense and fully lacking in taste, Weia Teia is NOT recommended. For the real fusion deal, try Blue Ginger in Wellesley Mass. Then you'll never want to go back to that little hole in the wall ever again.
DATE: 2002-08-22
FOODRATING : 4
SERVICERATING : 4
AMBIANCERATING : 4
OVERALLRATING : 2
RECOMMENDED DISHES : none

Crude, Rude and Possibly Unsanitary. Chaotic and Out of Control. I'm Angry.
DESCRIPTION: This restaurant is a nightmare out of "Fawlty Towers!" It was the worst service I've ever experienced. Let me explain: My friends and I were going to attend a classical music concert in Oberlin, so we made reservations for dinner at Weia-Teia, which we'd heard was a good new restaurant. We arrived fifteen minutes after the time we'd reserved (it was a long drive!) and the hostess said "No problem," and promptly seated us in one of the restaurant's tiny, uncomfortable booths. The restaurant did not smell particularly clean, but we didn't mind, since we were determined to enjoy ourselves. The hostess who seated us handed us each a dirty, dog-eared menu, pasted to some unsanitary piece of wood, and we began perusing and discussing the selections. Suddenly, the hostess returned, scowling, with some sort of personage of higher authority behind her. The hostess snatched our menus away from us, and said "You can't have this table. You were late for your reservation. We have to give it to someone who came in after you." We were non-plussed, and started saying things like, "But you showed us to our table..." "We weren't that late..." The hostess shook her head and said: "You can wait for another table. But nothing will open up until after 9." (That was two and a half hours away!) Then the higher authority, (was she the manager?) placed herself in front of the hostess. Her manner was crude and angry. "You've got to go," she shouted. "We need this table for other people. You can come back at 9." There was no tone of apology, or intimation that perhaps the restaurant had made an unfortunate mistake. No one begged for our understanding. Anyone looking on would think we were being thrown out for some outrageous breach of behavior. One member of our party began to remonstrate with our two antagonists, but I convinced him and the other that it was embarassing enough, both to the restaurant and the other diners, and that we should just go without another word. We did so. That was the end of the incident -- execept for our continuing incredulity. I've worked in restaurants and dined at restaurants around the country and around the world and have never seen such crude, unprofessional behavior. Anyone who works in a restaurant will tell you that once a party of customers is seated, you don't haul them up by the scruff of the neck and tell them to leave because of YOUR mistake. If another party was entitled to the booth to which the hostess had lead us and seated us, that was the restaurant's problem, not ours. I might add, that our party consisted of two mild-mannered gentlemen in suits and ties, and a well-dressed lady, all of us in late middle age. What I found most astonishing was that the hostess and "manager" seemed to think that we were so desperate to eat at their foul boite that we would actually put up with their treatment, and come back two and a half hours later, panting with gratitude to actually be seated AND served. Of course, there are not many dining options in Oberlin. After being ejected from Weia-Teia, we went to another nearby dining spot, where we enjoyed friendly, helpful service from a hardworking wait staff. Unfortunately, the lettuce in the salad hadn't been washed, and was literally covered with dirt: The very soil it had been planted in. I won't mention the name of the restaurant, however, because unlike Weia-Teia, they actually apologized for the problem, and didn't act like they were doing us a favor by serving us dirt.
DATE: 2001-10-15
SERVICERATING : 2
AMBIANCERATING : 2
OVERALLRATING : 2

Not Good
DESCRIPTION: I ate at Weia Teia last night with my sister and her roommate. My sister helped describe the decor as "postmodern," but if this means as little to you as it did to me, I'll give a description. Most of the seating is fuzzy black booths with uncomfortable, tall backs. The chairs for large party seating looked awful, the back rests were the size of a paperback novel with a couple of thin rods for lumbar support. The walls have panels of fake velvet, other than that the place basically nondescript, although this might be the point of being postmodern. The hostess sat us at an unset table, then presented us unwieldy menus pasted to long wooden planks. The menus were stained and smudged. When she returned later to pour us water, I asked for a wine list, but was denied because it is forbidden on Sundays. This of course is not the restaurant s fault, but Ohio s. Nonetheless, we were not offered any beverage other than the untasty tap water. Our server arrived soon after and offered us some bread. Chewing the bland roll, my sister noted as he walked away, that there were peanuts in the bread. The server did an about-face and asked if anyone had a peanut allergy, which we did not. Fortunately, if you do have such an allergy, he informed us, they have a supply of epipens , in case of anaphylactic shock, which has happened before at Weia Teia, as he joked here we go again! We had a nice conversation with him about stabbing an epipen directly into the heart, although I believe the thigh is the correct location. But let us move on to the food! I was somehow not discouraged by our introduction, and decided to order a couple of appetizers. The intriguing dish Duckin Donut, the server warned, is chilled duck breast, cooked medium-rare, with a donut. The duck came out medium-well, if that, with an unfresh salad of peppers. I give credit to the donut, it was the most perfectly prepared item we tried all night, but was a complete failure to match the other elements on the plate. I regret not trying the appalling Pepsi Shrimp. This is fusion cuisine at its foulest. The calamari rings were mediocre, served in a crown of fried wonton skins, the sauce may have been squeezed from a packet from a Chinese take-out. Presently, our entr es arrived. The creative presentations cited by other reviewers were essentially identical for all three plates; a cake of tepid white rice was the foundation (and although the scallop dish claimed a shrimp risotto, it was plain rice with a few tiny, stringy shrimp; this type of fraud should be punished mercilessly); all plates were garnished with a pair of antennae made from deep-fried spaghetti, not tasty, and not attractive enough to merit ubiquitous use. The scallops themselves were cooked satisfactorily, but a large, mealy, insipid tomato did them no justice. Much the same may be said of the salmon. My sister suffered through a dull, dry chicken breast. Somehow, after such generous dissatisfaction, I had a morbid craving to be dismayed by Weia Teia s desserts. As a professional pastry chef, I just couldn t say no when the server asked if there was anything else he could get me. Everything he offered was chocolate, except a mango cheesecake, so we tried that and an alleged frozen chocolate mousse. The cheesecake was old. It looked old, tasted old, the crust had turned to paste. The butterfly cookie garnish was out of touch with postmodernism, but I m willing to let that slide. As for the frozen mousse, it might have been good when the cook froze it. It came to us icy and freezer burned. I neglected to try the wafer, but my sister likened it to tobacco-dog hair, although this may be an exaggeration. I tried to make an escape to the restroom, where I found the largest shock of the evening. It smelled, the toilets were unflushed, the stall was rusting. This room is positively premodern, maybe even prehistorical. I have nothing else to declare. Eating here was like watching a car wreck.
DATE: 2005-04-05
FOODRATING : 2
SERVICERATING : 4
AMBIANCERATING : 4
OVERALLRATING : 2

Awesome Chinese Dinner
DESCRIPTION: You must try the Fried Minced Chicken appetizer. Sesame chicken is incredible. Top it all off with plum wine. Outstanding!
DATE: 2003-07-03
FOODRATING : 10
SERVICERATING : 8
AMBIANCERATING : 8
OVERALLRATING : 8
RECOMMENDED DISHES : Fried minced chicken

Top Notch Chinese Food & Service
DESCRIPTION: Hunan Lion has excellent Chinese and Thai food, combined with excellent service. The atmosphere is white table cloth, clean and elegant, and the cuisine has great presentation and quality.
DATE: 2004-09-14
FOODRATING : 8
SERVICERATING : 8
AMBIANCERATING : 8
OVERALLRATING : 8
RECOMMENDED DISHES : Thai Chicken