P.F. Chang's China Bistro

I went to a P.F. Chang's China Bistro (in Orange County) once before with my family.

201005## Dinner:
Chicken Lettuce Wrap
Appetizer. Four whole lettuce wraps to eat with chicken that has been chopped up into small pieces, as you would expect for a lettuce wrap. This time around, I avoided the sauce that is pre-mixed by the server, since I suspect the liquid chili sauce has sesame oil in it. Thus, I just put soy sauce, vinegar, and mustard (which has a wasabi flavor) directly to my lettuce wrap. There was some chicken leftover after we each had two lettuce wraps. About two spoonful worth. So the meat to lettuce wraps ratio is pretty good.

Kung Pow Chicken with white rice
This was ordered without the peanuts. But they have it premixed, so it had to be done from scratch. Unfortunately, it was rather salty, even after trying to remove salt with the rice.

Can Fun, beef with brown rice
This dish uses wide noodles (like in ap chao, a Vietnamese dish), and comes with a choice of chicken or beef. There's also scallions and onion. Perhaps a choice of pork, I don't remember. This was ordered without oyster sauce, so they also had to reinvent and/or do this dish different. I'm guessing if oyster sauce was used, the bottom of the dish would have sauce floating around to give it flavor. But the dish as it was served did not have sauce floating around, but was still delicious.

All the food was eaten, except about three spoons of white rice and one piece of chicken. Note: there is a special dinner for two deal that consists of two cups of soup, an appetizer, two entrees, and two mini-dessert. It costs $40, which approximately translates to "buy two cups of soup, an appetizer, and two entrees and get free dessert."

The cups of soup are $3, the appetizers are around $7, the chicken dishes are around $12, and the seafood dishes are around $18.

Service: The server was good about asking about allergies. They tell you that your food should come out on a plate marked with the P.F. Chang's logo, otherwise don't eat it. Actually, after Caroline had given her allergy, the waiter sort of assumed I didn't have one. But I let him know I couldn't eat peanuts. And then I mentioned the sesame oil, but he was like we do everything in sesame oil, and I was like, forget I mentioned it, I'll just take Benadryl if need be. At one point, this one person came up to ask how we were doing and such, but then he left, because we just got our food. Then he came back moments later. It was just a little annoying to have someone that isn't your server ask you if everything is alright. Now if there was some sort of problem with our meal, and then someone besides our server addressed the issue, or made amends somehow, then I could understand the extra attention. But otherwise, I'm just trying to enjoy a dinner. I suppose it all depends on how much you like to interact with people other than the people who came to dinner with you.

Next time: Walnut shrimp or Salmon or Mahi-mahi.

P.F. Chang's China Bistro

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