Sunday, April 22, 2007
Week Past 04/16-04/22/07
Tue 04/17 another year was added to my age. It's now a half century plus one. W and I celebrated it by having dinner at The Old Country Buffet. I was in the mood for a buffet. That was the closest from where we agreed to meet.
Sat 04/21 turned out to be a food binge. W's staff, Meds, dropped by at home and invited us for a brunch at Mystic Lake. It was her first time to try out the place. The place was not that busy for a Saturday. After brunch we were still able to do some garden work before going to church. After mass W and I went to Patio Town to check out their garden landscaping display. Since we were already at Hi-Way 13 in Burnsville, W mentioned that we were near the new Chinese reataurant, Ming Dragon, that her Chinese friend recommended. The place is not big but their food tastes good. You know it's a good Chinese restaurant if customers are predominantly Chinese. That was the case that Saturday. Chinese families, young and old, having dinner together. So we had for appetizer spicy pork intestine. It was not that spicy but good. The intestines were sliced into slivers mixed with cilantro and not too spicy sauce. Our entree was dried fried bass served with vegetables and marinade sauce. The skin was crispy and the meat soft. Spicy beef stew that was not on the menu but we saw the other table having it. Our curiosity got the best of us. The owner told us it'll be spicy since it's cooked Schezuan style. Our curiosity ascended another notch. We said go for it. Since rice is our main staple we had fried rice with salted fish. For this one, W and I agreed that Mandarin Kitchen's version is better. But for the rest of our orders they were good, The Spicy beef turned out to be between mild to really hot spicy. The beef itself is not hot but the soup is. You can see tiny red chili floating with other vegetables.
Ooops...
I can't help but take a picture of our weekly community paper and post it in my blog. The proof reader must be pulling his/her hair by now. Can you spot the clanger. To whom who erred: "It' s alright, it's okay, we still love you anyway." Nobody's perfect...but how could you :)
