The Happy Wanderer - Paradise Vacations

Kings Land Chinese Seafood Restaurant , 2200 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, CO Yum Yum, Dim Sum! Today we satisfied our dim sum cravings at our favorite, Kings Land Chinese Seafood Restaurant. The other place is good too, but it doesn’t beat Kings Land, especially since they don’t have the signature green beans that we all love. So we started out with the green beans, and followed those up with various dim sum: Har Gau (Thoy’s favorite, the tiny shrimp dumplings with the translucent wrappe rs), siu mai (my favorite, the little shrimp-pork-mushroom dumplings with the carrot in the middle), Potstickers (the seared pork dumplings that Marnie favors), gooey rice pancakes with shrimp in the middle snipped with scissors (we miss you Mike and always eat these in honor of you!!!), seafood dumplings with shrimp and scallops, shrimp and leek dumplings, eggplant stuffed with shrimp topped with a black bean sauce, bean curd yummies stuffed with chicken and veggies (the brown things), and these lovel...

New Saigon Restaurant, Denver We had good food and boba drinks at New Saigon restaurant recent, on South Federal Boulevard in the Vietnamese area of town. New Saigon has been around since at least the 80’s, so they must be cooking it up right. Location: 630 Federal Boulevard. Me, Eric, Thoy and Mitch started out with Vietnamese Eggrolls. Usually I eat the pork version but Thoy wanted shrimp, and they are remarkably similar. Grab a piece of eggroll, put it on a lettuce leaf, add bean sprouts, carrot, cucumber, mint leaves and cilantro, and roll it up into a kind of "Vietnamese Burrito." Dunk it in the fish sauce and enjoy. I had the Combination Noodle Bowl, which has a lot of the same elements as the eggroll dish: A bowl of rice noodles with carrot, cucumber, bean sprouts, cilantro and mint leaves, that is topped with perfectly grilled marinated chicken, beef and shrimp, then g round peanutes. Served with fish sauce. It was really good, a lot of food. Order it if you are rea...

Wow it looks like someone reads our blog other than us! In response to your comment, Alan, we are 4 friends who either work or worked at Janus Capital in Denver. The other 3 members are still there, I jumped ship and moved out to Sacramento to run a beauty supply business. But I still enjoy eating out, just not anywhere of note.