Break out the tums

Happy Chinese New Year! I don't know if it was just a coincidence, but Darlene felt like going out for Chinese food last night - so off we went. We decided to go back to an old favourite of ours that we stopped going to after a bad experience on our last visit. We figured they deserved another chance after 7 years.

We typically order egg rolls, BBQ pork fried rice, honey garlic spare ribs and sweet and sour chicken balls. Let's start with the egg rolls. The restaurant claims they are home made. I believe it - they are definitely not store-bought. But the filling made up less than 50% of the egg roll. Moving on. The chicken balls had white meat in them - a good start. But the batter was more dense and more plentiful than the meat. When we received our honey garlic ribs, we realized they had mis-heard our order and thought we had ordered honey garlic (boneless and battered) pork. They took it back and brought us the ribs. Darlene thought they brought the same dish back because they were indistinguishable from the original order. The server said, "no - these ones have bones". Too bad, that just meant less meat than what we originally had been given. I will not be naming this place only because I know many people who actually like it - oh well - personal taste and all that.... A long time ago, this place had actual honey garlic ribs - you know those long lean bones with just meat on them? Lord, how I crave those ribs. Now all we can find is akin to pork knuckles, coated in batter.

If anyone knows of a great Chinese food place in Calgary that serves high quality food (but most especially real honey garlic ribs), please let me know. We have yet to find such a place lately.