Saturday night Señora and I went to dinner with two other couples. For our outing the group chose Lu Lu Seafood & Dim Sum, a Chinese restaurant. To call Lu Lu’s a Chinese restaurant — given the American perception of what a Chinese restaurant is – smacks of comparing Mexican high cuisine to Taco Bell. It very definitely is not the Tex-Mex of Chinese food.
St. Louis has an older area that is more or less informally known as Chinatown. There are many Chinese restaurants, supermarkets and other Chinese ran businesses in this area. Much of the Chinese population lives nearby. I looked it up, and the demographers put the St. Louis Chinese population at around 13,000. I thought it was much larger than that. For comparison those same demographers put Continue reading “Happy Birthday to You”