Enclose the chicken and the sauce in a dewy lettuce leaf: cool, crisp and refreshing.

The Chinese dish that normally features ham wrapped in crisp chicken with a batter becomes hot pastrami wrapped in chicken.

As the "movement" took off, the diner became a pit stop, thanks to being near black colleges and its perfectly crisp fried chicken.

The only disappointment was the fried chicken ($7.95), neither crisp nor greaseless.

Chicharrones of chicken ($6) is Caribbean fried chicken, crisp and greaseless, with each piece seemingly offering its own flavor.

I preferred the crisp fried chicken ($5.95) to chicken smothered in an oniony brown sauce ($6.50).

It's also available as a side dish with crisp fried chicken, spicy curried goat or chicken, meaty oxtails and succulent beef short ribs.

The crisp fried chicken is superior to chicken smothered in an oniony brown sauce.

General Tso's chicken ($8.25), nuggets of crisp chicken in a sweet-and-sour sauce, came with fresh, nearly crisp broccoli florets.

The best of the main courses I tried was crisp chicken cooked in lime.