Family+Favorite+Restaurants

//Where do we eat.. //On hot, sunny days, we head to **Dairy Joy** in Weston on Route 117. They have big juicy burgers and fried clams and delicious ice cream. We like the ice cream dipped in fudge. It's always a bit of a race to eat the ice cream before it melts!!! It's a bit pricey but it's fun to sit outdoors...and we always bump into someone we know.... Another favorite is **Bertuccis** in Waltham. It's near our house. Mom likes the salad and the kids enjoy playing with the glop of dough they give the kids to play with before dinner. We usually order a pizza and get half of the pizza filled with things dad likes, and the other half with things the kids like...//so everyone is happy.// A place that we like to go to for a quick meal is **Fresh City**. We liked going to the one in Natick because afterwards we went next door to Circuit City where dad would play with all the new gadgets and we sat in the recliner massage chairs and watched tv on the flat screens. But Circuit City closed so now we don't go to Fresh City as much. If we do go, the kids like the noodle dishes and the free cinnamon and sugar pita chips and mom likes the salads. You have a lot of options of what you want to put in your noodle or rice dish or salad.....//everyone's happy there!// In Framingham there's a restaurant called **Lotus Blossom**. It's a Chinese restaurant where we like to go to on Sundays for the buffet. They have a lot of old traditional Chinese foods. We eat a LOT and leave there very, very full. We often find that we don't eat dinner later that night...... Another restaurant in Framingham that mom and dad like is **Mikado**....an all-you-can-eat sushi buffet. They have a LOT of stuff. It's a bit noisy and busy with people getting up and down from their seats (which is good for us - no one notices our kids who are loud and don't sit in their seats very well). Other family favorites: **Onos** in Honolulu where they serve authentic Hawaiian food (you just have to put up with the decor which hasn't changed since they opened about 50 years ago), **Chau Chau** in Chinatown for dim sum, **Cheesecake Factory** (we like the one in Honolulu), **Chuck-E-Cheese** (where mom and dad spend more money on tokens than on dinner), **China Star** in Waltham (good authentic Chinese food), **California Pizza Kitchen** (any location-we like the pizzas and mom likes the salads) and **Off Center** in Weston....for a muffin! Add your favorites here:  __//Where the Kiang family likes to dine...//__ For birthdays, our family tradition is to go to **Bugaboo Creek** ("the moose place" as our daughter refers to it). Where else does the happy birthday song end with "kiss the moose!" Lots of fun. //Pad Thai//: I have become something of a //pad thai// gourmand. I have tried it everywhere in and around Honolulu and Boston. It varies considerably, and at many places it's either too oily, or too salty, or too sweet. At its best //pad thai// should be an even mix of flavors: salty-sweet-spicy-sour. You should be able to taste all of those flavors in tandem. The best places that I've found for //pad thai// in Boston are **Khao Sarn**, on Harvard Ave. in Brookline, and **Jamjuli Thai Restaurant** in Newton on Walnut Street.
 * Anna's Taqueria **, in Cambridge, Newton, Brookline. Great family-friendly atmosphere, good, cheap, BIG tacos and burritos. My favorite is the Super Burrito, with guacamole and sour cream. YUM!
 * Fried clams**: The best place for fried clams is the Clam Shack in Ipswich. Light batter, fresh clams, and that old New England atmosphere.

__// Edwin writes: //__ Taco Bell