Chung Chou City and P.F. Chang’s
Attending seminars should, or at least COULD, be fun but not all provide opportunities to experience, nor do they frequently offer their own, Great Food and Fun Places. The LoBella event at Lake Las Vegas is an exception, offering tasty and healthy snacks throughout the day with an opportunity for lunch and dinner at one of the on-site restaurants at Lake Las Vegas. Lunch on Saturday was not exciting and not worth writing about and by that evening, I was wishing we could have a really great dining experience somewhere in Las Vegas.
Taking advantage of being in Las Vegas, we left the venue and headed across town to Chung Chou City, a Chinese Pharmacy in Las Vegas’ China Town area on Spring Mountain Road, to stock up on our favorite cold remedies and Chinese tea. I encourage you to step in for an eye-opening experience and view an amazing variety of ingredients used in Traditional Chinese Medicine formulas. In addition to these items, you will also find an impressive selection of teas. We buy their exquisite Jasmine Dragon Pearl. We enjoy it hot and in the summer it is especially nice iced with mint and Chia Seeds!
Out and about in Las Vegas, and having our shopping done, we were still wishing we had a ‘favorite’ unique place, but since we didn’t, we decided to enjoy a “familiar, comfortable and reliable” meal at P.F. Chang’s China Bistro. The Green Valley location is easy to get to off I-215. It is always busy. We had a ‘short’ 30-minute wait, getting seated much sooner than expected. Having eaten at Pei Wei the day before, we enjoyed some of our other favorites, starting with an appetizer of Salt & Pepper Calamari, then the Buddha’s Feast Vegetables with a mild Cantonese Shrimp winning out over the Lemon Scallops. We passed on dessert, but appreciate their unique option of delicious Mini Desserts – ‘bite-sized’ offerings in a selection of eight flavors including lemon, strawberry cheesecake, S’mores, Apple Pie and Tiramisu to list a few, as an alternative to their other full-sized servings of equally delicious desserts.
