Let me recommend: Bill’s Hot Dog Stand in Ypsilanti.
It’s a drive-in. Open your window and eat in the parking lot. Get their dogs with everything on it + a mug of root beer. If you don’t eat dogs, at least get the root beer!!! I don’t even like root beer that much, but I now dream about the root beer from Bill’s.
Absolute reasonable prices, too: got 4 dogs & 2 mugs of root beer for around 10$ total!
What’s your recommendation for unexpectedly good food in Michigan?
There are pictures of the food on a long table and on the wall above it. There are little squares of paper with the name of the food, and things like “extra noodles” or “add egg” and “here or togo”. You get one piece of paper for each item you want, and then fill it out, and give them your stack of paper.