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good weekend
Mar. 21st, 2004 10:13 pmHad a pretty good weekend. Saturday, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
anotherjen and her daughter came to my mom's place and stayed with Isaac while mom and I went to see Jon Stewart live. Which ruled! :) When we got home we discovered that Ilana thought it was a sleepover and didn't want to leave. ;) I consider that a compliment although I know she doesn't give a shit about me, she's just enamored of my baby. ;)
On Sundayww1614 came over with HER daughter, and they hung out and stuff. And Wendy, who has an uncanny knack for sensing when I am starting to think "Ack, Isaac is outgrowing all his clothes!", brought two huge boxes of her son's outgrown clothes, which is GREAT. We are pretty well set for much of the summer and part of next fall! Yay!
Then they left and we went out to eat. My mom has been on an epic quest to find a place to hold my grandma's 90th birthday party next month. It has to have a space for 12-15 people -- preferably a private room -- and it has to be reasonably priced, reasonably close to my mom's place, and a type of food that you can easily feed to a large group of elderly, non-adventurous eaters. So that rules out Indian or Mexican or any other cuisine that is particularly spicy or "weird." We've been visiting a lot of Chinese restaurants to sample their food and check out their side-room offerings.
Anyway, so the Chinese place we went to tonight was one that both my mom and I had hazy memories of hating, but several people whom mom trusts had recommended it to her recently, so we thought maybe our hazy memories were wrong. Alas, they were not. The place sucked. Well, the decor and atmosphere were nice, and the service was fine, but the food sucked. And it's not just me the picky vegetarian saying that; mom agreed. Alas.
The experience prompted me to mention to mom, and now to post, my restaurant-evaluation system. Over my many years as a vegetarian I've developed a set of rules or guidelines for evaluating a Chinese restaurant's vegetarian-friendliness, simply by reading its menu. ( It goes something like this.... )
Of course, anyone who is a vegetarian should realize that when s/he visits a Chinese restaurant, s/he is probably ingesting some animal products, unless the restaurant (or its veggie dishes) is specifically and explicitly vegetarian. The sauces, the cooking pots, the grill, etc., are all most likely "contaminated." This is quite probably true at restaurants of other ethnicities as well, of course, but particularly at Chinese places. If a vegetarian really wants to be 100% pure of any animal-based contaminants s/he will have to either a) quiz the staff at great length or b) avoid mainstream Chinese restaurants. Dude, that's just life.
Anyway, the lengthy digression aside, that's my weekend. Whee. :)
anotherjen and her daughter came to my mom's place and stayed with Isaac while mom and I went to see Jon Stewart live. Which ruled! :) When we got home we discovered that Ilana thought it was a sleepover and didn't want to leave. ;) I consider that a compliment although I know she doesn't give a shit about me, she's just enamored of my baby. ;)On Sunday
ww1614 came over with HER daughter, and they hung out and stuff. And Wendy, who has an uncanny knack for sensing when I am starting to think "Ack, Isaac is outgrowing all his clothes!", brought two huge boxes of her son's outgrown clothes, which is GREAT. We are pretty well set for much of the summer and part of next fall! Yay!Then they left and we went out to eat. My mom has been on an epic quest to find a place to hold my grandma's 90th birthday party next month. It has to have a space for 12-15 people -- preferably a private room -- and it has to be reasonably priced, reasonably close to my mom's place, and a type of food that you can easily feed to a large group of elderly, non-adventurous eaters. So that rules out Indian or Mexican or any other cuisine that is particularly spicy or "weird." We've been visiting a lot of Chinese restaurants to sample their food and check out their side-room offerings.
Anyway, so the Chinese place we went to tonight was one that both my mom and I had hazy memories of hating, but several people whom mom trusts had recommended it to her recently, so we thought maybe our hazy memories were wrong. Alas, they were not. The place sucked. Well, the decor and atmosphere were nice, and the service was fine, but the food sucked. And it's not just me the picky vegetarian saying that; mom agreed. Alas.
The experience prompted me to mention to mom, and now to post, my restaurant-evaluation system. Over my many years as a vegetarian I've developed a set of rules or guidelines for evaluating a Chinese restaurant's vegetarian-friendliness, simply by reading its menu. ( It goes something like this.... )
Of course, anyone who is a vegetarian should realize that when s/he visits a Chinese restaurant, s/he is probably ingesting some animal products, unless the restaurant (or its veggie dishes) is specifically and explicitly vegetarian. The sauces, the cooking pots, the grill, etc., are all most likely "contaminated." This is quite probably true at restaurants of other ethnicities as well, of course, but particularly at Chinese places. If a vegetarian really wants to be 100% pure of any animal-based contaminants s/he will have to either a) quiz the staff at great length or b) avoid mainstream Chinese restaurants. Dude, that's just life.
Anyway, the lengthy digression aside, that's my weekend. Whee. :)
