On Saturday night, we made an unexpected quick stop to the Pei Wei on City Ave. It’s a good thing too, I was f’in starving. I’d been trying to recuperate from all the lack of sleep, and really was too tired to eat all day. So by the time this meal came around, I was ravenous!

C got the honey seared chicken with white rice. Nothing exciting here, but it was good. A little plain, completely palatable, I could see many people liking this.

I went with my standard pei wei fare – chicken teriyaki bowl with brown rice. And like I said before, here, it’s all about the brown rice. As usual, it was good. But it’s a bit hard to eat with chopsticks, as the brown rice is really flaky and separated.

Kudos to Pei Wei this evening… they didn’t charge for drinks. Is this a new thing? Not sure, but I was a fan. And we were there past the 10PM closing time, but they in no way tried to shoo us out of there, and didn’t even try to give us any hints to leave. I thoroughly appreciated not being hurried.

Last weekend, en route to New Hope, we made a pit stop in Warrington to eat some dinner. Warrington – the stuff strip mall dreams are made of! At R’s suggestion, we went with Jannie’s, a chinese/japanese place next to the gigantic theater. This is the strangest looking asian restaurant I’ve ever been to. Seriously, look at the ceilings… they’re mirrored! They have modernish chandeliers with hand painted reliefs! Bizarro!

Onto the food… They have two sides of the menu, chinese and japanese. The place is run by chinese people though, so just be aware. And we got fried noodles and duck sauce, which is a totally chinese thing. R got some wonton soup and I got some hot and sour. She liked hers, mine was eh. I’ve had much better hot and sour many other places.

R got the pork lo mein. She barely put a dent in it, but it was really good. The noodles tasted especially fresh and so was the bbq pork.

I decided to go crazy and go with the japanese side of the menu and got yaki udon with shrimp. It came with a salad, and damn, I fell in love with their ginger dressing. I’ve had some good japanese ginger dressing in my day, but this was by far one of my most favorites… ever! It was super tangy and fresh and beyond full of flavor. I need to figure out how to make this!

My udon was alright. It was extremely seafood tasting (yes, I know I got seafood in it) in a strange way. It was also a bit salty. It tasted fine, but I think that Jannie is probably a bit better at doing the chinese thing, than the japanese thing. Service was fine, and there are some of the super fastest bus ever boys working at Jannie.

Jannie
118 Easton Road
Warrington, PA 18976
215-343-3889

This past Sunday, Sangkee Asian Bistro had a traditional Chinese Lion Dance Party to celebrate the Year of the Rat. I remembered this on my way home back from yoga, so I stopped in. They basically had an open house, served us free(!) food, and gave us a really fun treat.
They had some light appetizers (coconut shrimp, shu mei, spring rolls) and some peking duck, baby bok choy, some noodles, and some general tso’s chicken.

See, even the lion wants him some of that delish peking duck… I love that they did this, there were a bunch of kids there, and they loved it. Even though this is the sister restaurant to the more famed chinatown spot, it’s a place with a total neighborhood atmosphere.