Lucky Fortune

A couple of Friday nights ago we were forced to break from tradition when we couldn’t get through on the phone to our usual Chinese takeaway. Now I admit that we always always always order from the same takeaway and love it, so maybe we were never going to be impressed by the Lucky Fortune.
We went for the Lucky Fortune because it is close to where we live which probably isn’t the best method for choosing a take away and I think it’s safe to say that we won’t be tempted to go back.
I ordered chicken in Peking sauce while the husband went for beef and cashew nuts. The sauce they came in were from opposite ends of the sauce spectrum and neither was particularly good. The Peking sauce was
an alarming red colour which must be hard to achieve with natural ingredients while the beef and cashews were in a thin bland kind of gravy. There were plenty of cashews though which some restaurants skimp on.
Both dishes were bulked out by onions and carrots which always gets right up my nose. Not literally obviously, but it does really annoy me. We managed to eat most of it, so it wasn’t really bad, it just wasn’t particularly good either. The boiled rice was fine, but then how could you get that wrong and the noodles and bean sprouts were a bit oily.
Call me fussy, but at the start of the weekend, my takeaway has to be good. I get quite tetchy otherwise so for the sake of my family, I think I’ll stick to my usual take away.