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Best Chinese dinner in memory on Thursday night at the Hunan. I was going to go somewhere and have a salad, but then I read about buttercream shrimp. Sounded like a joke. Sounded disgusting. Sounded too good to be true! I was in the car before I'd finished arguing with myself about whether this could possibly be a wise diet choice. I already knew the answer.
Hunan is an unlikely restaurant to find in Fresno. There's a story to this restaurant. The upshot: lucky Fresno. I ordered dan dan noodles, which were hot and red and crazy delicious, and had the shrimp for "dessert." I left some of both on my plate, which was a feat.
How to describe those shrimp. . . warm, firm and crunchy, sweet, suave, buttery. I know this dish sounds weird and questionable, but I'm telling you: it is magnificent. I'm considering returning tonight for more and if you are ever within 30 miles of Fresno, go.
Yesterday I spent some time looking for a Hmong restaurant, as there are a lot of Hmong people in Fresno. But all my leads petered out, the places I'd read about had been closed.
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I've been to Fresno before and really liked it. But while I've had some pleasant experiences here these last two days, met a couple of lovely people and gone to several interesting museums, they feel like tiny islands in choppy and cold waters. I've written a lot of travel stories about unlikely places, but this time I'm having trouble seeing it.
If anyone has any ideas, please send.
Today: Finish coffee. More museums. Historic house. Armenian bakery. Tower district. Zoo. Strawberry buttercream shrimp?
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ReplyDeleteAny more info on the Buttercream Strawberry shrimp ingredients? Or do we wait for the article to come out (Sunset?)?
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Hi Anonymous 1 -- I got your note about Piemonte's too late to act on it. I had passed the place earlier in the day and wondered about it. Too bad!
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I've never been to Fresno, but apparently it was just named Drunkest City in America: http://www.slashfood.com/2011/02/07/do-you-live-in-americas-drunkest-city/
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I like your take on Fresno. Islands on choppy cold waters.... I've been here 5 years, but never heard anything informative about Hunan or the cafe you went to, at least nothing that would make me want to go there like your blog just did... and that's because the good things are, as you said, pretty isolated, and people tend to segregate.
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