This past Saturday my sisters and I, my oldest niece, Bassmaster and Mrs. Future Bassmaster got together to whip up some China Inn recipes. We met at sister number three's house (she has the biggest kitchen of us all!!!) and started cooking around 2 in the afternoon. Grandma and Grandpa and my brother-in-law's mother were to arrive by 6pm for dinner. Dinner was to consist of the following: Almond Chicken, Chicken Chow Mein, Egg Foo-Yong, Won-Tons, Crab Ragoons, Fried Rice and China Inn's famous rolls. Yes, we made all of these from scratch!!! What great fun we had too!!! It was a lot of work but believe it or not everything was ready right on time, thanks to everyone working together to pull this off!!!





This whole idea was possible because Catfish'n and my Dad had gotten The China Inn recipe book for me for Christmas. At that time we had all decided that we sisters would get together and make all the dishes to celebrate my brother-in-law and my birthdays, in January.

I don't know if we'll do this on a monthly basis like my brother-in-law suggested, but we WILL do this again!!! It was way fun getting us all together to cook!!!

The China Inn has been a part of my families get togethers for different celebrations since before I was even born. Grandma Virginia always made sure important get togethers of the family either centered around her home or The China Inn, but the most important thing was that all the family was together around the table enjoying really great food and fellowship!!! Grandma would have been proud of Saturday's get together!!!

I'm glad that the Yee family thought it was important enough to produce a recipe book of their famous China Inn dishes to share with their patrons, since their doors closed in 2007. I like chinese food, but The China Inn had an original taste that you just can't find at any other chinese food establishment. Today, we settle for Dillon's Chinese when we want some chinese food, but nothing tastes like The China Inn's dishes, even their rolls have unique taste (want to know that secret ingredient? Get this, 1 scoop vanilla ice cream!!!). That said, believe it or not, all the dishes we made tasted very close, if not, just like The China Inn's food!!!

It wouldn't have been a birthday celebration without birthday cake! My brother-in-law's mother brought the cake. My brother-in-law is also an avid Batman fan, thus the Joker cake for the both of us!!!

Great food, great fun, great family times!!!!