I make it at home, but it never comes out the same way because my stove just doesn’t emit the kind of heat required to stir-fry correctly. However, it is absolutely worth picking through the bones and devouring every little morsel of flesh you can find.ĭried Beancurd with Shredded Pork (香干炒肉丝) is an all-time favorite. It is not something you order unless you have four or more people, as it is quite the commitment. Rock Fish in Sweet and Sour Sauce is fried to perfection, and covered in sauce dotted with julienned bamboo shoots, wood ear fungus, scallions, onions and carrots. I do not have the prices for the dishes, nor do I have the exact English name of the dishes, however, it shouldn’t be a problem when ordering. This post combines dishes from both meals, some of dishes we eat on both visits. It is no surprise we both find the flavors here like a warm comfortable blanket, enveloping us on a slightly chilly night.
It is also what my son remembers eating as a child because I have prepared it for him. This is my comfort food - the kind I remember my mother cooking. Therefore, I am very surprised - delighted in fact - that ever since our meal at Chef Chen, he has been bugging me about going back there. I believe our trip to Hong Kong a few years ago has developed an inner Chinese food snob in him.
It is always difficult to convince my son to eat at a Chinese restaurant. But recently, on Chinese New Year’s day last month, I am sharing a meal with one of the most respected food writers in Orange County and this is where we end up ringing in the Year of the Goat. It isn’t for any particular reason that I have not eaten here since then. She passed away five years ago - and I don’t remember visiting again after that time possibly six or more years ago. We are taking my grandmother out for lunch and she is still mobile enough to travel around in her wheelchair. Her recent credits include business and strategic plans, scripts, marketing collateral and website copy.I remember quite vividly, the last time I’m here. She also freelances as a writer/editor and dramaturge. As VP and chief operating officer of Worksafe Goup, a subsidiary of Mutual Risk Management (MRM), she built and managed an in-house staff of 13 and 20 contract consultants. She currently works as COO and Producer for Mannatee Entertainment, a start-up film production company where she recently produced a comedy short for the national film festival circuit. Alexander entered the insurance industry, where she served for more than eight years. She was the guiding force behind UCI’s Library Facilities Master Plan, and her work was instrumental in obtaining State funding for the $35-million Science Library.After working in non-profit arts management in Los Angeles for several years, Dr.
At UCI, she served as a planning analyst, developing capital improvement proposals and strategic plans. In all positions her abilities to communicate, plan and manage have been paramount.
Since completing graduate degrees from the University of California, Irvine’s School of Social Sciences and Claire Trevor School of the Arts, she has worked both in arts/entertainment and insurance/finance, with forays into technological fields. Retired, Ms Lovell currently lives in New York, impacting her various communities as a business-as-usual disrupter, environmental, health and arts activist, business mentor, wellness consultant to an international client base, and learning to love the creative forces that nurture and shape every aspect of her life. Film credits include documentary and art house short films commissioned by the Arts Council of Great Britain, London’s Jazz FM, Tyne Tees Television, Granada Television, Central Television, Channel 4, La Sept, BBC2 and Central Television. Following a twenty-five year international career in dance performance, pedagogy, theater/film production and arts and business management, Ms Lovell embarked on her fourth career as a holistic bodywork practitioner starting her next entrepreneurial venture Body & Soul Therapies in 2004. Dancer, Choreographer, Actress, Director, Producer, Film maker, Photographer, Arts & Health Science Researcher, Holistic Wellness Practitioner, Globetrotter, Mother, Gardener Chef, Mentor, Arts/Health/Environmental Activist, Warrior.
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