55 Flavours

There is a tiny little Shanghainese restaurant hidden in a corner of a local strip mall, which used to be the location of a cellphone store. I used to head there often with HG for lunch, and we knew it as "Cellphone Chinese" because we never bothered to learn its proper name.

I revisited the place again on Tuesday, to be pleasantly surprised that their $5 lunch menu had multiplied from about 15 selections to 55 now! That means more than your standard (bastardized) sweet-sour-pork, kung-pow-chicken, cashew shrimp, ginger beef variety dishes.

I learned that one fish dish plus one spicy mapo tofu translates easily into two full stomachs and leftovers for dinner. Soup, rice, and dessert included.