Today I wanted Chinese food, not the typical authentic type, I told myself I wanted the Whitest, most Americanized Chinese food that White people, Hispanics, blacks go and patronize at. And here is the verdict!
**Did not Disappoint, Did not Disappoint, Did not Disappoint** This is where I'd go if I went to Bryce Canyon, Zion for the day and came back in town! This is where I'd go if I wanted to sample Historic Hong Kong style Chinese food before China took over the San Gabriel Valley and each town outside of the Coastal China Towns only had 5 Asians in each town.
So here I am, in St. George Utah, with a 24 Hours overlay en route to delivering Costco's Kirkland Signature Paper Towels out of Anderson South Carolina ( Your Welcome, you can now search for who manufactures Costco Paper Towels, and it ain't Charmin). So anyways, this restaurant. After getting out of my Uber, I walk into probably what we call a relic-- the signage outside is worn out, it's nowhere located near a main street, but tugged away up hill in the back of a Denny's. As I enter, wow, it's like walking into a Quentin Tarantino Kill Bill time capsule of the 90s, that feeling where you visit Vegas when it had one Chinese restaurant back in the days. Nostalgic!
I am greeted by friendly Filipino staff members... Interesting... seated down, and within minutes they take my order, Thai Style Curry Chicken with brown rice and hot and sour soup. Hear me out that's not Chinese food, but ok, I did order the service person's recommendation also: the House Fried Noodles, typically a Cantonese American dish where chop seuy style vegetables, various meats are tossed together in a brown oyster sauce and served on a hot plate. 5 minutes later, everything is served. Talk about efficiency!
The Chicken Curry is a blend between Cantonese style and Thai style, and it BLOWS Banana Bay Rowland Heights Panang Curry out of the water! I probably had two servings of rice with this dish. The Fried Noodles Hot Plate, is what some out of state Chinese restaurants call Triple Delight, a mix of broccoli, canned baby corns, water chestnuts, carrots, mushrooms, tossed together with shrimp chicken and beef in a Cantonese brown sauce. And here the interpretation to take it up a notch put them on a sizzling hot plate over Hong Kong Crispy Egg Noodles, and BOOM, fireworks. This here although unauthentic, is what everyone out in Los Angeles should come out and try. It's where the Lakers team members like Robert Horry would sit down and order food such as at the Twin Dragon on Pico Blvd in Los Angeles, and he'd share stories with the old school Cantonese manager there about how Kobe can make any shot he wants. This is what defined America's Chinese Food scene back in the days. Maybe I'm nostalgic, and having worked in various out of state Cantonese run Chinese restaurants in small town America, this is what I'd go to have a meal, if I wanted something more than a PF Chang's and not a low quality China Buffett. read more