- June 26th, 2007
Growing up, my parents owned a small Chinese restaurant call Golden Dragon in a small town in California. I worked there since I was in the 5th grade up until I transferred to San Francisco State University. Since then, my Chinese food consumption has gone down tremendously. Could it be that nothing compares to ma and pops traditional cooking or that I actually have to pay for food now or both?
Anyhow, The Golden Eagle is fairly close to the University Hawaii, which means it’s more than likely going to be affordable. Ray and I shared the Seafood Chow Fun. It’s Ray favorite Chinese dish, next to me of course.
This dish cost us $11.49 and that’s including tax. It wasn’t on the menu, but here’s more free knowledge I’m willing to share with you. When your dinning at a Chinese restaurant you can basically have anything you want. Money talks and if you want it and the Chinese has it, they’ll gladly make it for you . . . for a small fee of course. Next time your out for Chinese and you think to yourself, “man, Mongolian beef sounds good, but I’ve had way too much red meat lately. I really wish they had Mongolian chicken instead.” Order it, It’s your world sweet cheeks, you can have anything you want, but make sure you bring cash because Chinese no like paying tax and a lot of places will not settle for anything less.
Back to the food. It was delicious. Generally, when you order chow fun, which is rice noodles, the waiter will ask you if you want it wet or dry, which means do you want it with or without sauce. I suggest with and that’s the way we ordered it. It was everything we had hoped and more. The vegetables were fresh and crispy. It was flavorful without being too salty. The service was good and we even got free tea, but no fortune cookie. That’s o.k. I don’t need a cookie to tell me how my life’s gonna turn out, that’s what I pay Sylvia, my psychic, for. Here’s my fortune cookie fun fact of the day for you, fortune cookies are an American invention, just like chop suey. Desserts were not traditionally part of Chinese cuisine, and the cookies thus offered Americans something familiar with an exotic flair. Who would of thought, writing a message in a freaking cookie could be so popular. I think we should take this a step further and start writing subliminal messages on toilet paper so after we’re done with our reading material we could wipe our ass with something really really special.
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August 20th, 2007 at 12:26 am
[...] Ray ordered Chow Fun with Chicken, $8.95. This dish I saved for last because it was the reject dish. This would probably rank up there as one of the worst chow fun dishes that we have come across. First off, this isn’t chow fun. I don’t know who they think they’re fooling, maybe they ran out of chow fun noodles and tried to play it off with some other type of noodle. Perhaps they’re having a shortage on noodles all together because there was way more bean sprouts than noodles. The noodles that were there were over cooked and mushy. It was so disappointing. Now, when it comes to credentials, Ray and I are covered. Chow Fun is like Shane’s curry to Ray, he hardly orders anything else. As for me, I’m Chinese, not knowing what chow fun is is like not knowing what rice is. If you want good chow fun go to The Golden Eagle. [...]