Chinatown

Today Alli, Anne, Jed, and I went to Chinatown! It was a very original experience...something everyone who lives in Chicago needs to do:-)

Good thing we were in the mood for Chinese food, because we wouldn't have had much luck finding much else:-) We decided to go for Good Fortune Restaurant. We all really enjoyed our meals. Although....the menu did read "no MSG upon request". Oh well...what are ya gonna do??

There were a lot of bakeries so we took advantage of it and stopped in. Now, I decided to be safe with my choices at this place...when there were things like 'Duck Egg Bun' which by the way, Alli got! We didn't get very far into that before we called it quits. At least she tried it!
We went into a lot of the stores to check things out. We had no idea on some of this stuff though. Like this thing below...if you can identify what this is, a genuine Chicago gift will be coming your way....maybe one of these things.



We went into a lot of stores and came across some interesting sites. We roamed around a shop that sold stuff like dried mushrooms and ginseng, tea and dried fruit and veggies. I almost died after I looked at the prices though! For ONE pound of dried ginseng....$150! No joke! In another store (a grocery store with a butcher) we saw them about the "prepare" some toads! We left but Jed stayed to watch the show...yikes! I guess Mom and Dad were telling the truth some of those times that they said we were having frog legs for dinner:-)