Mu Goo My Margarita!

I spent most of the day out walking around today....it was sooo nice!! A bit chilly to start, but then it warmed up nicely. And I heard it's supposed to be in the 80s tomorrow...woo hoo!

We decided to walk a few blocks away to this dive of a Chinese place.

"You want to eat there?"

"Hmm. Sure."

"What if it's really bad?"

"Well, yeah, it could be...but maybe we'll get some tea if we eat there?"

So we walked there and as we reached the door, we notice that the restaurant is a small 9x9 foot room with a couple of card tables and a few metal chairs.

Definately not a place to 'dine-in' at!

"Ok...so you want to get it to gooo?" I say with a chuckle...It was quite obvious that there would be no tea to be had there.

The place was empty except the three of us and the cooks in the back.

We place our order, 'Mongolian Beef', 'Kung Pao Chicken', and 'Pork Fried Rice'...three standards that could easily be compared amongst other restaurants.

While we were waiting (approximately 25-30 minutes) for the food to be prepared, six other people came in to pick up orders that they had called ahead for. SIX!

To me that was a good sign that this nothing-burger place might be better than I had originally anticipated...card tables and no tea set aside.

And while we waited, I found myself acting ridiculous....

"Excuse me...Have you eaten here before??"

I asked that of every single person that came through the restaurant's doors.

"Was the food good? Is it good? Do you like it? What do you recommend?"

Like anyone coming back for more is going to say...'Oh the food sucks and I am just a glutton for punishment which is why I am coming back...'

The woman gave us an extra bag of fortune cookies!! MMM!!

My fortune:
~*~Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.~*~

My husband paid the bill and gave the woman a tip. He had noticed that no one else that had come in bothered tipping! The woman looked very confused (and sooo busy and tired) and started calculating in her head the extra amount and then held out the extra money repeating what the total had come to and saying he had over paid.

He looked at her and said, "Yeah, I know...that's a tip."

The woman just melted. It was so sweet. She, for a brief moment, took in a breath of air from her busy schedule and sighed and said, "Thank you so much."

We got the food home, tore open the containers and while I sorted the baby, my husband began tasting the food.

"Sooo??!?!? How is it???" as I took coats off and reclipped messy munchkin hair and got out baby food, etc.

No answer.

"C'mon!! Can't you just telll me!?! I'm STARVING! I gotta know!"

My husband starts his reply.."It's...fricken..."

And he scruntches up his face and makes a big thumbs down gesture...

"FRICKEN AWESOME!!!!"

So we all sat down and snarfed! I'm so happy to have found good Chinese food by my house!! YUM!

Then my husband scrambled out the door for his 'Boys Night Out' and I sat down to another small helping of the delish fried rice and watched some mental mush tv while I finished my margarita.

Ahhh bliss!