You are always entertaining and delightful.

That was my fortune tonight at dinner. Yes, I went to a Chinese restaurant tonight for Thanksgiving dinner! The relatives I’m staying with were just too busy with work and weren’t up for cooking a big dinner. I thought we were going to go to my aunt’s house this evening. Little did I know that I was in for a pleasant surprise to be heading on down into Los Angeles’ “Chinatown” neighborhood. I’m all about rice (the grain, that is)!

The whole American tradition of Thanksgiving dinner is pretty much a foreign custom to me and my family. It was never one of those long drawn out meals that lasted in the afternoon and into the night to me. Oh yeah, and TURKEY? My mom doesn’t like it so we usually had chicken or roast beef or something. Come to think of it, I don’t think I even tasted a stuffed Thanksgiving turkey with all the fixings until I was a teenager or something when I visited a friend’s family for their observance of the holiday. Of course they thought I was weird I didn’t know what to do with the cranberry sauce. LOL.