On Mar 11, 2005, at 9:17 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:
Warren Ockrassa wrote:On Mar 11, 2005, at 8:19 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:Also, attempt to find menus for Chinese restaurants. (I didn't realizeBecause of the review, or because of the other people in the group?
the restaurant reviewer's page for the restaurant was likely the only
place that linked to an on-line copy of the menu until someone pointed it
out to me. And now I'm debating whether or not to go with a group of
people there in 10 days.)
Well, I want to go out because of the group, but I'm on the fence about the menu. :) The review is glowing, but I'm pickier than the reviewer.
Hard to go wrong with veggie fried rice. :D
A couple years back some Buddhist friends of mine invited me to a celebration of the Chinese new year, which coincided with the Buddhist one. The menu was *very* special and was served at one of Milwaukee's better known Chinese restaurants.
By very special I mean things like jellyfish.
It was a surprise. I toyed with the idea of dragging them off to a German restaurant and subjecting them to specialties such as steak Tartar.
When East meets West, gustatory shocks cannot be too far behind.
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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