Foodies: Help us find the Best Chinese Restaurant in Central Massachusetts

Update: The nomination portion of the reader poll has closed.

Deciding to have Chinese food for dinner is the easy part. But which restaurant? And what to order?

Lo mein. Beef or pork? Spring rolls. How many?

Rare but to be commended is the family that has it mastered: Usual place, usual order.

Central Massachusetts is dotted with Chinese restaurants. Dozens come up in a web search.

We'd like to find out which one should top the list.

Our latest reader poll puts the decision in the hands of foodies: What's the best Chinese restaurant in Central Massachusetts?

Takeout or eat-in, dinner or lunch, you set the guidelines.

It's an informal poll, unscientific, intended as fun, a departure from the sometimes edgy tone of the internet.

The poll is shaped much like the March Madness college basketball brackets. Based on nominations from readers, we'll narrow an original field of 16 down to eight, then four, then two and, finally, to the Best Chinese Restaurant in Central Mass.

We'll keep you posted every step of the way until a winner is declared.

The poll is similar to earlier ones for Best Pizza, Best Ice Cream Stand and Best Breakfast Place.

Drop us an email with your nominations, to [email protected], using the subject line "Best Chinese Restaurant." Feel free to leave a nomination on our Facebook post.

Reader voting gets underway Monday, March 11, with reader nominations determining which 16 restaurants are in the running.

This article originally appeared on Telegram & Gazette: Help us find the Best Chinese Restaurant in Central Massachusetts