Do You Have a Small Package?

I'm not sure if it's a blessing or a curse. There we were enjoying dinner at the Ambassador, an old favorite Portland hangout for karaoke and great Chinese food. Smoky, video and lotto machines beep and clink in the background, karaoke nightly at 9. And us. Just wanting some delicious food....and they definitely have it. We're always the only ones on the restaurant side (as opposed to more skany karaoke/bar/lotto/smoking-permitted side). The combination "C" was perfect (kung pao chicken without the chicken and fried rice). Wonderfully warm and rich brown gravy laced with a good amount of zippy hot red peppers. Really, to die for. Well, maybe not that far down the trail...but good, nonetheless, when one needs a good hit of Chinese.

And then she brings the bill (they always do in spite of my asking them not too...it ruins a perfectly good evening). And there are the fortune cookies too. She makes a point of telling us to take the one closet to us that is pointing at us. And I do. There were actually two fortunes inside. I tossed one away because the second one outweighed the other for scariness. So, you tell me, a blessing or a curse?

"A small lucky package is on its way to you soon."

So, which one of you is coming over?



SAN DIEGO -- I have a couple of nights free in San Diego this week. Anybody there who wants to have dinner together? Email me.


Happy holiday weekend to everyone. Looks like we're having an evening BBQ and fireworks right here in our backyard.....Anyone Close to Portland who wants to come over?