What's says romance more than Valentine's Day dinner at a greasy neighborhood Chinese restaurant? Like earlier in the morning, we found ourselves hungry and without dinner plans following out less-than-stellar movie going experience (post to follow). Many restaurants get all crazy around Valentine's Day, so we were thinking somewhere decidedly un-fancy and somewhere close to home.
San Tung, our favorite Chinese restaurant was the first thing that popped into our heads. In retrospect, I wonder if it had something to do with Chinese food being a natural choice for holidays that I don't really celebrate (see: Christmas). At the time, it just sounded so good, and we hadn't been in a while. In fact, paralleling our breakfast experience the only real problem with San Tung is that it usually has a sizable wait, made even more stressful by the fact that the waiting list is a patron-maintained white board. That means that you have to be a little vigilant or names magically start appearing above yours...
At any rate, the fact that we keep going back and waiting should attest to the fact that the food is generally quite good. Or to the fact that they put crack in their chicken. Ok, not really. But Julia has taken to calling our favorite dish, "Crack Chicken." On the menu, however, you'll find it under "Dry Fried Chicken," with the options to have it served diced or on the bone, and dry or wet. We always go dry friend chicken diced dry. Even ordered dry, its quite saucy. I think we ordered it wet once, and it was just REALLY saucy. Most people, especially the Asian patrons, seem to order it on the bone, so maybe we're doing something wrong. But that just seems like a recipe for sticky fingers. So I'm sticking with diced.
Unfortunately, there was something (maybe the crack?) missing from the dish on Saturday night. It wasn't quite as spicy/sweet/smoky as usual. We both noticed. It was still GOOD, but not irresistably so.
Other things we order regularly and like:
Steamed dumplings
Garlic String Beans
Hot and Sour Soup
Chow Mein with homemade noodles
Spicy Chili Pork (can't remember exactly what it's called)
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