Here we go ... our week-long gastronomic tour of Big D started today at 11:30 a.m., and mom is our honored guest. Every day we’ll shlep her around town to a different restaurant for lunch. We decided to do lunches instead of dinners for a few important reasons: 1) there’s practically zero traffic at lunch time; 2) lunch portions are smaller so we don’t have to stuff ourselves; and 3) we’d rather stay home at night to watch movies.
Today’s excursion took us to Royal China, Dallas’ best (and oldest) Chinese restaurant. We loved it. The food was outstanding, entrees on the lunch menu included FREE SOUP AND EGG ROLL and a big bowl of FREE HOT MUSTARD. I love hot mustard! Our menu choices today were Jalapeño Chicken for Sam, Orange Chicken for mom and Szechwan Eggplant for me. Plus we all shared assorted steamed dumplings in a bamboo basket (see below) which were color-coded depending on what was stuffed inside.
At no extra charge Royal China’s in-house noodle dude (I think that’s his official title) provides an interesting but non-musical floor show behind the dumpling bar, where he twists and spins huge wads of dough to entertain the diners. It’s fun to watch. He could even make it to the finals on “Shanghai’s Got Talent.”
When we got home everybody took a nap, then I watched an Audrey Hepburn movie on TCM while Sam and mom tried to walk around the block. Unfortunately, they had a little trouble bucking the 35 m.p.h. headwind and didn’t get very far. Sam was afraid mom would wind up in Oz. Thank you for reading this.
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