How many people are you feeding?
For 2 - 3 people:
Hot and sour soup or Three flavor sizzling rice soup and any 2 of these entres:
Orange chicken (better yet tangerine, if they have it). Ask for extra orange peel. It's amazingly good.
Beef with broccoli
Three flavor kung pao or szechwan (usually shrimp, chicken and beef or pork)
Mu shu pork (comes with hoisin sauce -- a sweet plum sauce)
<< General Tso's chicken, just awesome >>
Agreed. Another good choice.
The most important thing you must learn to say in Mandarin is Bu yao way jing. I'm not sure of that spelling, but it means, Don't use MSG. :Q