Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> David surprised me and suggested going out to a Chinese restaurant
> tonight. He will at least eat Lemon Chicken, but nothing else.
>
> I've had a yen (no pun intended) for some plain old American style
> Chinese food lately, so nothing fancy or exotic. That's easy to find
> in the midwest but not here in Phoenix. However, I have found two
> restaurants that serve up these types of dishes.
>
> I will order the appetizer platter (egg rolls, spareribs, crab puffs,
> and pot stickers), hot and sour soup, and pork chop suey with steamed
> rice. Lots of leftovers to bring home for myself. They also make a
> great egg foo yung, but that would be pushing the amount of food just
> too far. :-)
>
Heh! Sometimes, even when one knows there is much better Chinese
food and usually gravitates toward it, one has to do that. BTW,
my daughter ONLY orders lemon chicken at one of the not great
Chinese restaurants around here. I have taken to getting moo shi
veggies to kind-of balance that a bit. She does order other
things elsewhere, but she will usually have one thing she orders
at any given restaurant.

--
Jean B.

On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:00:41 -0400, Jean B. wrote:

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> David surprised me and suggested going out to a Chinese restaurant
>> tonight. He will at least eat Lemon Chicken, but nothing else.
>>
>> I've had a yen (no pun intended) for some plain old American style
>> Chinese food lately, so nothing fancy or exotic. That's easy to find
>> in the midwest but not here in Phoenix. However, I have found two
>> restaurants that serve up these types of dishes.
>>
>> I will order the appetizer platter (egg rolls, spareribs, crab puffs,
>> and pot stickers), hot and sour soup, and pork chop suey with steamed
>> rice. Lots of leftovers to bring home for myself. They also make a
>> great egg foo yung, but that would be pushing the amount of food just
>> too far. :-)
>>
> Heh! Sometimes, even when one knows there is much better Chinese
> food and usually gravitates toward it, one has to do that. BTW,
> my daughter ONLY orders lemon chicken at one of the not great
> Chinese restaurants around here. I have taken to getting moo shi
> veggies to kind-of balance that a bit. She does order other
> things elsewhere, but she will usually have one thing she orders
> at any given restaurant.

i tend to do that, too. i think it kinda makes sense if you had other
things there that you didn't like as well.

i find myself thinking not 'i'll go to this restaurant' but 'i'll go get
this at this restaurant.'

but these are not usually high-tone places. i don't have the dough for
that.

your pal,
blake