Ken M.
Yelp
I'm back! I love Szechuan food! The restaurant is located at 435G Hartford Tpke in Vernon, CT. "Serving With Love. Tasty Products and Wide Range Flavors." I love it! For my first drink, I am having a Scorpion Bowl. A Scorpion bowl is a communally shared alcoholic tiki drink served in a large ceramic bowl traditionally decorated with wahine or hula-girl island scenes and meant to be drunk through long straws. Bowl shapes and decorations can vary considerably. Starting off as a single-serve drink known as the Scorpion cocktail, its immense popularity as a bowl drink in tiki culture is attributed to Trader Vic. No volcano here but it tastes great! To start, we are having the hot and sour soup. Hot and sour soup is a popular Chinese soup known for its contrasting flavors of spicy and sour, achieved with ingredients like vinegar, chili sauce, and white pepper. It is typically made with a broth thickened with cornstarch and features ingredients such as mushrooms, tofu, bamboo shoots, and egg ribbons. The soup is often served as an appetizer and can be customized to taste by adjusting the amount of vinegar, chili, and pepper. I like to add pepper in mine. This is real good! It's nice and hot too. It came out quick! We are also getting sone spring rolls. We are also trying the vegetarian spring rolls. Vegetarian spring rolls are a popular dish that can be served fresh or fried, typically filled with a mix of shredded vegetables and sometimes noodles. They are commonly served with a dipping sauce. In this case, it's duck sauce. These are quite tasty and go well with the duck sauce. We are also having the chili pepper and preserved egg. A century egg is a Chinese preserved egg, made by curing duck, chicken, or quail eggs in a mixture of clay, ash, salt, and quicklime for several weeks to months. This process transforms the egg's appearance and flavor, giving it a dark, jelly-like white and a creamy, dark green yolk with a rich, savory, and pungent taste. Century eggs are often eaten on their own, with pickled ginger, or cooked in congee (rice porridge). The eggs are purple and translucent. This chili pepper sauce is spicy so watch out! The egg white has a slightly harder texture than a boiled egg. I love these things! For my entree, I'm having the Mix Duck Stew in Spicy Sauce. I haven't had duck in quite some time. Wow! Look at this! This is a lot to eat! It is delicious! For my last drink, I'm having a Mai Tai. The Mai Tai is a classic tiki cocktail made with rum, lime juice, orange curaçao, and orgeat syrup. It was invented in 1944 by Victor J. Bergeron at his restaurant, Trader Vic's, in Oakland, California. While the original recipe used only aged rum, modern versions often include a blend of light and dark rum, and some variations add pineapple or orange juice. Not bad! I like it! For dessert, we're having the Sweet Sesame Paste Filling Rice Balls and the Small Rice Balls in Fermented Rice Soup (for dessert!). That soup is like a sweet egg drop soup with tapioca balls. This is great! What a nice meal!