Gu's Bistro

 Yesterday was COLD.  The kind of cold when you go outside your joints start to ache (or maybe this is me finally feeling my body aging...sigh).  I had the ingredients on hand to make chicken pot pie, but after a busy day of errands and tasks I was feeling like going out to dinner sounded much more appealing than standing on my feet cooking and cleaning.  Instead of going to one of our local neighborhood restaurants we headed to Buford Hwy to Gu's Bistro- probably the best Chinese I have ever had.

 We were very hungry and on the way began listing all the dishes that sounded good to us and upon arrival ordered way too many of them: tea smoked duck with scallions; pork, picked cabbage and noodle soup; peppers in black vinegar; Zhong style dumplings; fish with peanuts and peppers.

 Most of the food can be very spicy- it is Szechuan style- but since they knew the dumplings were intended for James they thought to serve the chili sauce on the side, and the soup and duck were just packed full of flavor not heat.  James loved the duck, pork, noodles and rice.  He really wanted the fish- every dish that arrived at the table he exclaimed "fish?!" but when it arrived it was truly hot.  He didn't seem to upset as he was thrilled to try to use his chopsticks on the noodles.

 I didn't get the best picture but at certain points he was holding the chopsticks almost correctly.

 But he didn't hesitate using his fingers to arrange the noodles on the rice.  Not sure what was going through his mind but he insisted that the noodles be on top of the rice no matter how many times I moved them to the side.

Just now while writing this post James looked over my shoulder and requested some noodles to eat.  He is going to be thrilled at lunch as we have tons of leftovers to enjoy for the next few days.