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Diners & Drive-ins: Your guide to cool and unique eateries
by Ed Wolfe

Hello again fellow canns, this month I'd like to share with you a nice Chinese restaurant that goes by the name of "A Wok on the Wild-Side". Located at 3128 McHenry Ave. in Modesto California. Opened in 1993 the restaurants popularity has grown mainly due to chef-owner Chen Qiu's practice for striving to have the best and freshest food he could find along with several signature dishes created by Chen himself.

It's a snazzy space. A large, old wooden door leads to an expansive dining room, with glossy wood floors, post-modern lighting, and eggplant colored walls and. There's also a wide hall leading to an inviting outdoor terrace. The menu is made up of mostly traditional Chinese dishes along with a few mini-girl ones not available elsewhere. Portions are large, so one dish can provide a good meal. Tea is served, as in most Chinese restaurants, at no charge. After being shown to my table I took a look at the menu. I decided to start with the Wok 'n' Rolls for an appetizer followed by the Shanghai Golden Mountains, two of their signature dishes.

About 10 minutes later an attractive young woman wheeled over a small cooking cart, she introduced herself as Mina and said that she will be preparing the appetizer. While the wok heated up she prepared the ingredients. She began by placing four egg roll wrappers on one side of the table, and then she put four stuffed and still live mini-girls bound with tiny strips of nori on the other side. When the wok was ready she added the mini-girls. The girls were surprisingly lively, screaming and struggling as they began to cook in the wok. The cook herself was fun to watch. She put on quite the show, skillfully flipping each girl using only cooking chopsticks. Once the girls were cooked enough she took them out and placed them on the wrappers, rolling each one up and put them back in the wok for several more minutes. When finished she placed the rolls on a white rectangle plate along with sweet and sour sauce for dipping.

Next up the Shanghai Golden Mountains, two large and fresh breasts stir fried in specially blended soya oil until they turn a beautiful golden brown then covered with a honey ginger five-spice glaze and served on steamed Bok-Choy with zucchini, snow peas, yellow squash and shiitake mushrooms. They were delicious, incredibly tender and juicy and the flavor was amazing and the Yang Yan Gou Qing tea that was served along with the dish complemented it perfectly. I see why the waitress said it was worth the wait. This is a dish I highly recommend trying when coming here.

While I was there I also had the opportunity to see what makes this restaurant unique, in the middle of dining room sets a giant wok which is used to make the places trademark dish. The Jade Princess is literally a dinner and a show combined. It starts with a beautiful young woman in a jade green china dress and heels accompanied by two equally lovely female cooks. The three proceed over to the wok and then the show begins, she bows and introduces herself as the cooks prepaid the wok. The woman then starts to strip; she playfully kicks off her shoes then slowly removes the dress. She seemed to be enjoying her as she happily got into the wok, which I found out later, was due in part to the specially blended tea she had been given that killed the pain and put her in a euphoric state.

After laying down in the wok the cooks began to add the other ingredients starting with rice, onions, shiitake mushrooms and red and green bell peppers, then one of the cooks handed her a squeeze bottle made from agar jell (a seaweed-extract that's totally edible) that contained soy sauce which she liberally applied to her body, the woman then began posing in the wok while stirring the ingredients. This went on for approximately 40 minutes until she finally lost consciousness, after that the cooks took over. They continued to flip her and pour soy sauce on her as needed; about 30 minutes later the woman had turned a lovely golden brown. The cooks took her out a placed her on a decorative platter. As one of the cooks garnished the woman the other began to put the rice mixture into bowls, eight in all. She then placed them on the platter, four per side. Once finished two waitresses carried it over to a table where eight people eagerly awaited their meal.

What sets the place apart from other Chinese restaurants is the overall atmosphere the delicious food and the great tea as well as their friendly and well trained staff. Another thing worth mentioning is the places use of induction cooking which allows them to cook the majority of their dishes faster, safer and more efficiently, which makes showy dishes like The Jade Princess possible. "A Wok on the Wild-Side" Chinese Restaurant is a must visit when in the Modesto area. I guarantee that you won't be disappointed.

D&D Fun Fact: As you may have guessed, the inspiration for the sign and the name of the restaurant (in the photo above) did indeed come from The Jade Princess, Chen's trademark dish. That's it for this month.

Description
I am a fantasy artist.

Another new pic with a wonderful new story

Diners & Drive-ins: Your guide to cool and unique eateries
by Ed Wolfe

Hello again fellow canns, this month I'd like to share with you a nice Chinese restaurant that goes by the name of "A Wok on the Wild-Side". Located at 3128 McHenry Ave. in Modesto California. Opened in 1993 the restaurants popularity has grown mainly due to chef-owner Chen Qiu's practice for striving to have the best and freshest food he could find along with several signature dishes created by Chen himself.

It's a snazzy space. A large, old wooden door leads to an expansive dining room, with glossy wood floors, post-modern lighting, and eggplant colored walls and. There's also a wide hall leading to an inviting outdoor terrace. The menu is made up of mostly traditional Chinese dishes along with a few mini-girl ones not available elsewhere. Portions are large, so one dish can provide a good meal. Tea is served, as in most Chinese restaurants, at no charge. After being shown to my table I took a look at the menu. I decided to start with the Wok 'n' Rolls for an appetizer followed by the Shanghai Golden Mountains, two of their signature dishes.

About 10 minutes later an attractive young woman wheeled over a small cooking cart, she introduced herself as Mina and said that she will be preparing the appetizer. While the wok heated up she prepared the ingredients. She began by placing four egg roll wrappers on one side of the table, and then she put four stuffed and still live mini-girls bound with tiny strips of nori on the other side. When the wok was ready she added the mini-girls. The girls were surprisingly lively, screaming and struggling as they began to cook in the wok. The cook herself was fun to watch. She put on quite the show, skillfully flipping each girl using only cooking chopsticks. Once the girls were cooked enough she took them out and placed them on the wrappers, rolling each one up and put them back in the wok for several more minutes. When finished she placed the rolls on a white rectangle plate along with sweet and sour sauce for dipping.

Next up the Shanghai Golden Mountains, two large and fresh breasts stir fried in specially blended soya oil until they turn a beautiful golden brown then covered with a honey ginger five-spice glaze and served on steamed Bok-Choy with zucchini, snow peas, yellow squash and shiitake mushrooms. They were delicious, incredibly tender and juicy and the flavor was amazing and the Yang Yan Gou Qing tea that was served along with the dish complemented it perfectly. I see why the waitress said it was worth the wait. This is a dish I highly recommend trying when coming here.

While I was there I also had the opportunity to see what makes this restaurant unique, in the middle of dining room sets a giant wok which is used to make the places trademark dish. The Jade Princess is literally a dinner and a show combined. It starts with a beautiful young woman in a jade green china dress and heels accompanied by two equally lovely female cooks. The three proceed over to the wok and then the show begins, she bows and introduces herself as the cooks prepaid the wok. The woman then starts to strip; she playfully kicks off her shoes then slowly removes the dress. She seemed to be enjoying her as she happily got into the wok, which I found out later, was due in part to the specially blended tea she had been given that killed the pain and put her in a euphoric state.

After laying down in the wok the cooks began to add the other ingredients starting with rice, onions, shiitake mushrooms and red and green bell peppers, then one of the cooks handed her a squeeze bottle made from agar jell (a seaweed-extract that's totally edible) that contained soy sauce which she liberally applied to her body, the woman then began posing in the wok while stirring the ingredients. This went on for approximately 40 minutes until she finally lost consciousness, after that the cooks took over. They continued to flip her and pour soy sauce on her as needed; about 30 minutes later the woman had turned a lovely golden brown. The cooks took her out a placed her on a decorative platter. As one of the cooks garnished the woman the other began to put the rice mixture into bowls, eight in all. She then placed them on the platter, four per side. Once finished two waitresses carried it over to a table where eight people eagerly awaited their meal.

What sets the place apart from other Chinese restaurants is the overall atmosphere the delicious food and the great tea as well as their friendly and well trained staff. Another thing worth mentioning is the places use of induction cooking which allows them to cook the majority of their dishes faster, safer and more efficiently, which makes showy dishes like The Jade Princess possible. "A Wok on the Wild-Side" Chinese Restaurant is a must visit when in the Modesto area. I guarantee that you won't be disappointed.

D&D Fun Fact: As you may have guessed, the inspiration for the sign and the name of the restaurant (in the photo above) did indeed come from The Jade Princess, Chen's trademark dish. That's it for this month.