New Adventures in Eating-Buffet Dinners

Today is the 22nd. My granddaughter's first birthday. Grammie sent her good wishes on the

internet and Mommie read it to her and gave her a birthday cupcake. Tomorrow she and her brother will open their gifts at their birthday bash at a Chinese restaurant in Northern Virginia and celebrating with a buffet dinner.



Buffet dinners or lunches make you want to eat more than you need or really desire . The object of a buffet is for variety and change. So when I went last week to my first Chinese buffet here in Baltimore, I did something I never do. Ordering new things to taste is not my speed.Since I was in the buffet I decided to try about six different food items and really enjoyed all of them except for a bit too much grease but of course the grease, the salt and whatever makes it taste better.



It is interesting to watch people fill their plates with an excess amount of food that they would

not eat normally. Some just go up and eat and go up and again back for more to really get their money's worth as the expression goes.



My adventure there this first time was to acknowledge that I had the capacity after sixty years of eating Chinese food to try something new. My main thing is chicken chow mein, egg drop soup and an egg roll. Recently I started to add General Cho's chicken until one day it did not arrive on the table tasting so good. So I was back to the chow mein.



If the buffet line is not long, it is a good idea to take a taste of this and that and that and this and this enables one to change what they order and not be like me with one or two items.



My daughter-in-law is Asian and she tells us that the food in most Chinese restaurants is not authentic Chinese food like she eats with her family. She says when you see many Chinese or Asian people eating in a particular restaurant, then you know it is good because they know what is delectable and worthy of a meal.



My little grandson Ethan could eat with chopsticks and a regular fork when he was two.

I never eat with chopsticks, just a plain old stainless steel fork will work for me.



Keep on living and having fun and trying new things so senior in your identification means you are a senior in living and not so much being aged. You have the capacity to differentiate between old age and aging. Choose to age with dignity and keep on learning, yearning and loving.







Elita