So of course, after talking about not trying the Chinese food here yet, I was urged by Kristen to go to China Town and have some Chinese with her. At first I wasn't really wanting to go, although I did want some Chinese I didn't want to venture out to find it, but I'm glad I did. We got on the Piccadilly line and headed toward Leicester Square, I had never been to China town, so it was a whole new experience for me. We found the Main Street that hand many of the restaurants and started looking at all the menus to see if there was something we liked. The street was beautifully decorated, with lantern type lights hanging from one building to another. I think it was a little crowded everywhere because the Chinese New Year was approaching, and every one had Chinese on their mind. Anyway, we looked at about 7 different menus posted outside of the restaurants before finally picking the place that we had looked at first, we went back to analyze the menu for a final choice. Now that I think about it, I don't remember the name, but I could point it out of push came to shove. :) dining at the Chinese restaurant was nice. They gave very small glasses of water that were almost like a glass you would see used for a couple shots of whiskey, and they had overly large sized menus that took up half of the table. After looking at the menu on 3 separate occasions I decided I wanted to have the "Shredded chicken fried rice" with a skewer of "Prawns." The lady that took our order was new and didn't speak much English, so we had to point out what we wanted on the menu. Then later a guy came back and said that the skewers only come in sets of 5, so I told him to take it off completely because that changed from a £1.60 to a £6.30 with way too much for my stomach to hold. The food came out pretty quick, mine came before Kristen's. She got some kind of fried rice that had everything in it, which kinda sounded good once I saw it. My chicken fried rice was very good, believe it or not I found a small hair almost like an eye lash or eye brow hair, and oddly enough I picked it up and kept eating. I just refused to let my mind think it was disgusting. It might have helped that I worked in a restaurant back home and we would have little things about hair being in the food, but really, half the time a hair showed up in the food I could tell that it was the guests hair and not a cooks. I could tell you about the guest that had a hair in her salad, but really, it's not necessary, basically all you need to know is that it was overly obvious that it was her hair, and the placement of it showed me that it was hers because I knew I wouldn't have served the salad with a hair so noticeably obvious. So the rice was good, it had some onions mixed in also adding a little green to the dish. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture, which I was so determined to do, I don't know how it slipped my mind. I must have just been so hungry I had to dig right in. It was a fairly large portion so I got some for a take away container, which will hopefully be a good snack or lunch for later! Anyway, after our meal we headed back toward the flat. While we were in the restaurant I had started to feel like I was coming down with some sort of cold, so I hit Sainsburys Local to grab some emergen-c. When I got there, the last one had been taken so I didn't get to buy any, but luckily Kristen had an extra that I was able to take. So hopefully I won't come down with anything. The emergen-c made me feel instantly better, which only helps with the healthy state of mind to keep my immune system up from getting a cold! Wish me luck!
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