Great review of Fey Chinese restaurant! It's my go-to for authentic Sichuan spicy Chinese food

Food is good. But they are not kids friendly. Many of my friends had nasty service experience there because their baby kids made mess on the table and floor.

I love their cumin lamb.

Fey also offers take-out and I have never been disappointed. Food is great and they always have my order ready for pick up.

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I size up a Chinese restaurant by the number of Chinese diners actually having dinner there.

(1) If there are many of them, I assume the food is really good.
(2) If it's mostly white folks wearing cowboy hats & eating with a fork, I will generally pass.

@Pao Dude Usually there are many Chinese people there. I invited a Chinese guest (Hong Kong) there to have hot pot, which I had never had. She did all the ordering and showed me what to do. She said it was very good and quite authentic.

>>>If it's mostly white folks wearing cowboy hats & eating with a fork, I will generally pass.

Sounds like a chop suey joint...most of which have long vanished.

On the other hand, I have seen white guys wearing trucker's caps eating sushi with a fork. Hilarious.

Do they use MSG?

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>>>On the other hand, I have seen white guys wearing trucker's caps eating sushi with a fork. Hilarious.

Though he wasn't wearing a trucker's cap, I once overheard a guy asking for ketchup.
And then...when he overdid it on the wasabi, his head nearly flew off.

I prefer SPAM sushi (musabi). The meat is already fully cooked and the pieces are bigger.

Very popular in Hawaii where SPAM is considered the state meat.

Nothing like a big plate of Hawaiian belly food...loco moco (a hamburger served over a mound of steamed white rice with a couple of fried eggs and brown gravy on top) + another heaping helping of steamed white rice and macaroni salad on the side. Carbohydrate heaven.

The spam musabi is a good appetizer for getting the ball rolling.

For tropical shirt fashionistas, this is why many locals wear the 'island cut'...a fuller-dimensioned Hawaiian shirt that allows the belly some additional latitude to spread out in all its glory.

Jenny Craig has no followers out here.

^^^^ Is Jenny Craig a real person or just an advertising creation like Aunt Jimima, Betty Crocker and Uncle Ben?

I think Mrs. Fields is a real person as was Paul Newman.

And speaking of Chinese food...what about Mr. Chau?

He always seemed to have a way of cutting corners on his menu offerings.

And I never saw any Chinese people eting there. Just white people.

@Trademark names: Indeed, Jenny Craig is a real person, although age 86 now. Interesting to note, she got lockjaw in her old age and had surgery to fix it: Web Link

Mrs. Fields is Debbi Fields (age 61), former batboy for the Oakland A's in her youth. "Fields" was the surname of her first husband who funded her adventure: Web Link Her first store was in Liddicoat's (food court) in downtown Palo Alto on University Avenue.

@Trademark Names

Mr. Chau is also a real person. Following the poor reviews and countless closures of his 'Chinese fast-food' outlets, I believe he went on to open Panda Express.

> Nothing like a big plate of Hawaiian belly food...loco moco (a hamburger served over a mound of steamed white rice with a couple of fried eggs and brown gravy on top) + another heaping helping of steamed white rice and macaroni salad on the side. Carbohydrate heaven.

>> For tropical shirt fashionistas, this is why many locals wear the 'island cut'...a fuller-dimensioned Hawaiian shirt that allows the belly some additional latitude to spread out in all its glory.

OK. One explanation for obesity covered.


Next question...why is the Buddah (in various statues and pictures) always portrayed as a somewhat overweight individual? Wasn't he a wandering beggar with a rice bowl who originally shunned a life of luxury for one of poverty and spirituality?

Just how much rice was he actually eating?

>>Just how much rice was he actually eating?

Well...when people are kind enough to offer you a bowl of rice, you cannot let good food go to waste or offend their well-meaning intentions.

Then again, maybe he liked rice.

Back around the late 1970s I once saw a member of the Hare Krishna sect eating a Big Mac by the side of a building. No fries or Coke though.

>> I size up a Chinese restaurant by the number of Chinese diners actually having dinner there.

FYI...PF Chang's is opening up one of their famed 'China bistros' in Shanghai later this year. It's probably targeted towards American tourists & business people who happen to be passing through town (and don't know any better) as corporate owner ConAgra is hardly known for its gourmet cuisine.

Kind of like opening up a Pizza Hut in Florence.

> ...corporate owner ConAgra is hardly known for its gourmet cuisine.

PF Chang's is the most popular Chinese restaurant in the Walnut Creek/Pleasanton area (two convenient locations to serve you).

Danville locals go there for a unique taste of China. Go figure.

QUOTE: Back around the late 1970s I once saw a member of the Hare Krishna sect eating a Big Mac by the side of a building.

That would have made a memorable pic...a vegan monk sneaking off to have a hamburger. *L*