Since I live out of state, I was unable to take my mom out for Mother's Day. And if you've seen their house, trust me, my sisters and I are trying to not have "stuff" including flowers or plants delivered as they do NOT throw anything away. If you are a florist in the MD area, let me know there are cases and all those green foam blocks or styrofoam boxes.
Yet, cooking meals is something all moms would like to take a break from, I remembered this place since when I visited them in March, this was one of the restaurants that deliver.
This place is small though has seating. I believe the notice said dine-in option is now fully open as of 5/7/21 but you can order take-out, curbside pick-up and delivery via GrubHub.
Ordering over $12 could give you free delivery within a 3-mile radius though they may choose not to deliver to certain areas. In hindsight, I think if I had contacted the restaurant directly, the delivery fee would have been waived but I clicked on the yelp button
Ordered online though sort of limits what is on the online menu. I ended up ordering the beef chow fun which is a noodle my dad seems to like since easier to chew, the moo shu chicken which came with four pancakes, and the pork and vegetables (large) since hey, they probably should eat some vegetables, it's Mother's Day after all.
At the time, estimated time said 45-55 mins. The order was relatively easy to place except my internet crashed when I was placing the order so the initial appetizer of fried tofu was completely forgotten.
I got a notification that the food order was received and working and food should arrive between 4:10-4:30 pm. , Wanting to make sure my mom was going to be available since it would be contactless delivery with leaving at the door I texted her (3:15 pm).
I never received notice that food was delivered, but then again they rang the doorbell and left food hanging at the outside door handle. It was before 3:54 pm so they made great time and my mom was happy for a warm meal.
She liked the moo shu chicken and ate one pancake wrap since hungry and then waited for my dad's schedule and he had two while she ate the last one.
She remembered I said there was going to be noodles but she said the containers looked the same and some had the spring onion and celery at the top of each so she assumed it was the same order (sometimes two orders are made if they want the same thing). So they also had the pork and vegetables. The vegetables were broccoli, water chestnut, baby corn. The menu didn't say what the vegetables were and I was hoping for maybe bok choy but this makes sense. Seems like most Chinese restaurants cook their vegetables where it is still crisp and hard, to keep most of the nutrients, but my dad has dental issues and my mom ended up having to cut pieces much smaller for the meat and veggies though the veggies were mainly for her since she's limited to certain foods too.
She did say there were two containers of rice. She was wondering about the spring rolls and soup but those are usually the lunch deals that must not have been on the menu. Those lunch deals are M-Fri until 3 pm. That's what I had ordered to pickup when there last. If you are in the area and plan to pickup, consider the lunch deals.
No chopsticks provided but plastic fork. There was also the sauce for the pancakes. For my parents' situation, this was very convenient. There's enough on the menu for variety.
Though they don't know I'm ordering from afar, it'd be super if they had written on the bag what the items inside so she wouldn't have left the noodle dish for the next day. Noodles are best eaten the same day.
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