Chinese Food

This is something that I don't want to forget.  A likes chinese food.  At least every time we have gotten it in the last several months he always eats it.  We ordinarily have been getting it from Panda Express because we are either too cheap or too lazy to go somewhere good.  We went out to eat on Friday to celebrate some good news for Mr. Bob at work.  Alas no Panda Express where we live now, did we mention it is a small town/satellite community?  So we went to the local chinese place.  A was so excited and ate everything we gave him.  The next day we had the leftovers for lunch.  As soon as he saw the leftovers he reached out his hand to try and eat the food off the plates before we could give him any.  So I got to thinking how I should make chinese food at home more often because apparently he is a big fan.  I pull out the one chinese cookbook that I own and start perusing it.  At one point I set it on the floor so we could watch  "Road to Bali" that Mr. Bob had turned on.  The next thing I know A is making eating noises and is pretending to pick up the food from the picture on the chinese cookbook and eating it, and then he started picking up imaginary food from the cookbook and shoving it into my mouth to eat.  This is hilarious to us that he would at the age of 20 months be able to imagine that the food on the cover of the cookbook was something to pretend to eat and to feed it to us.

I remember as a kid that we always went to eat at the same chinese restaurant with my paternal Grandfather. We also ordered the same thing every time.  The family meal with fried shrimp, egg drop soup, chicken chow main and sweet and sour pork.  I also ate at my next door neighbor's house as a kid all types of chinese since they were immigrants from Hong Kong. We would have as a snack a bowl of rice and crack a raw egg into it.  I also got my beloved egg roll recipe from the mom as well.  I make it New Year's as part of our family tradition, along with won tons. I think I will be adding more chinese cooking to my meals in the future, because at this point if I can get A to eat something that seems to be half the battle.