Do you like Chinese Food? I do, and most times I get out, I like to try something new. Like Beef Stick at the local place. It’s simply chunky strips of beef stabbed onto wooden sticks, but I can’t enjoy them in front of Mother of Zenek, or Sister of Zenek, as apparently it looks like I’m eating a “Squirrel on a stick”. They don’t know what they’re missing out on!
It’s SO hard to find a good Chinese restaurant around here… Last Sunday, She-Zenek & I wanted to enjoy some pork-fried rice & beef stick at my favorite local place “Mayport Gardens”. Then I forgot that it’s closed on Sundays; how DARE the adorable Chinese couple who’ve slaved in the tiny hole in the wall since I was a little Zen take a whole DAY OFF once a week?!
After some frantic searching, I came about “China One”. It’s closer to her apartment, and it got an A for convenience, but it’s a damn shame that this place also had years of grime all over everything. It’s the kind of place people get take-out from, but wouldn’t sit down and eat there. So after we sat down…
I got the rib meat (THE PICTURE MENU LIED!!!) and she tried the meat dumplings. I picked away at the meatier chunks of cat meat saturated in red candy cane food coloring, and she ate the meat out of the dumplings, and the entire time I couldn’t help but think as I stared at the “charming” neon orange walls staring down the gray museum marble panels, I could SO poo on the floor and no one working here would care. Meh. There IS Panda Express, and that’s got the best of both worlds: Clean and pretty yummy. Mayport Gardens had that too, but alas: apparently legal aliens can have days off. I tried this one Chinese place near the beach once, and it wasn’t too crap tasting, but it was just as if the state of Florida registered the store as a Sanctuary for Asian Dustbunnies. Arg. I’ll just have to take She-Zenek to my old stomping grounds on Monday… I’ll be too busy enjoying the weekend to think about it though! Ha!
