When we go visit the mouse, we usually drive, and try to find the restaurants that are not chains, and restaurants that we do not have up here. Have found a fantastic fried chicken place in Springfield, Or, and have found many excellent restaurants in the USA. I have tried American style Chinese food, and for those who live in an area where I can practically walk to any Sushi or Authentic Chinese place am used to it, the American version is completely different in many ways. We have over 200 Asian restaurants in a 4 block radius that I can walk to. Our family personally doesn't care for the American version. A couple of years ago, and on our return leg we finally hit a mom and pop Chinese food place in Crescent City, CA. Man they were surprised when we started rattling off the different dishes we wanted in Chinese (you get used to ordering it that way up here.). They had pretty decent Chinese food that was closer to what we have up here. To each their own, and if you like it great, and I never said I was from Vancouver, so there!

