Tuesday August 3rd (Lunch [with the parents - from here-on-out: the prants - in Chinatown]): I have been falling behind on my blogging, so forgive me as I do my best to play catch-up and recall exactly how these past meals had me feeling once they found their way inside me. Stopping off in LA Chinatown on the way home from San Francisco, we had lunch at this sweet restaurant we'd eaten at twice before called Plum Tree Inn. The food is well-worth the waiter's insistence on calling you "boy", as in: "and what would the boy like to drink?". To be fair, we didn't have that waiter again this time, but I could see him serving other tables and I looked quickly away whenever he passed by. So we ordered the corn soup, "Shrimp with Honey Walnut", lemon chicken and snow peas with water chestnuts. Everything was delicious. I feel it's important to point out that the walnut shrip is different from other walnut shrimp dishes because it is simply glazed in honey instead of being drenched in a sweet mayonaise sauce. Not that this makes it superior - any walnut shrimp qualifies as my favorite Chinese dish, but this one is simply unique. Everything else is pretty much what you'd expect from a Chinese restaurant however, and this is a good thing.
i recently had a pei wei thai blazing noodles extra spicy with extra sauce. it was dry, but delicious. i don't know what happened to the extra sauce. eda mame and spring rolls on the side. for the same meal my korean pal jihye also made some dumplings with some sort of starch interior (don't remember what they were called) and delicious miso soup. speaking of koreans, i recommend kam ja tang if it's cold outside and you'd like to feel manly (as if you'd just come back from a successful wolf hunt on the mongolian steppe).
ReplyDeleteI wonder if there's a good Korean restaurant in Phoenix where I could get that. I'll have to investigate.
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