LTH,
Hit "Little" Three Happiness with a small group last week, including Stagger and Ronnie Suburban who had not been to LTH. As Stagger states in
this post, our overall meal was terrific, with a small fumble. We ordered beef short ribs w/XO sauce and got stir fry beef with an overabundance of salty corn starch gravy. I guess it goes to show if I, who has been going to LTH for 20 plus years, can have an ordering miscue it can happen to anyone.
Salt and Pepper Shrimp, the subject line of Hammond's original post in this thread, were spot on, crisp, juicy, delicious.
Yet another picture of "Little" Three Happiness S & P Shrimp
With both Bruce Cook and Peter Daane, two known chicken lovers, at the table
Defensive Ordering was in play. The whole chicken set between those two never knew what hit it, gone in 45-seconds.
Crispy Skin Chicken
Another slightly miscue was Clams w/ Black Bean Sauce Evil Ronnie style came with crisp rice noodles, as opposed to thin wheat flour noodles, but damn if they weren't terrific.
Clams w/Black Bean sauce on crisp rice noodle
We also had duck w/pork on crisp rice noodle, shrimp toast, dry stir fry crab w/ginger and scallion and egg foo yung. Egg Foo Yung? Yep, Stagger had never had egg foo yung. Stagger seemed to like it, though as his picture
here indicates, LTH was a bit heavy handed with the cornstarch in the gravy that day, which is atypical.
Egg Foo Yung
Jazzfood performing Egg Foo Yung Viscosity Test.
Overall lunch at LTH was, as always, a real treat, speaking of which, I have restocked the Gary's Chili Oil. Feel free to use the chili oil for as long as it lasts, I brought two quarts so it should last a week or three.
Enjoy,
Gary