Golden Star

Typically my grandma, Shannon and I go out for brunch on Sundays. Today grandma and I were going alone and I suggested we do something different. We ended up going to the Golden Star, a Chinese food restaurant downtown. This was my favorite place to go as a kid because in order to enter the restaurant you have to walk over a bridge overtop a large koi pond. Grandma was picking out which one she wanted to have for dinner as we sat down at the table.

I had an egg roll to start, since how can you not? The waiter was really awkward; polite, but only in a stifling hatred sort of way. It took a while to weed through the menu, but we settled on a few dishes. Since it was just the two of us, we ordered half orders of everything. Even still, there were plenty of leftovers. The dinner plate is as pictured when I ate some of the leftovers at my computer.

The first plate consisted of ginger beef and special chop suey. I think somebody forgot to add the sauce to the ginger beef because it was simply the deep fried battered bits that make the base. I ordered this mainly because it's Shannon's favorite and I could bring some home for her, but she wasn't into it because it was missing everything that made it tasty. The vegetables weren't really crisp, which I like, but the sauce was a little salty.

The second plate held a large portion of Chinese sausage fried rice and scallops in black bean sauce. The Chinese sausages I'd never had before. I liked them, they were little and sort of sweet. The scallops were delicious on their own, but the black bean sauce was so ridiculously salty I had to take a drink of water after every bite of the vegetables. I quickly just stopped eating it altogether. I don't remember what my fortune cookie was; perhaps "A close relative will buy you dinner."