ahh, the joys of tabulas. yesterday, daniel mentioned "china express" as a viable alternative to eastern lights.

when deciding where to eat lunch today, yush and i suggested china express. everyone was willing to try a new restaurant for lunch ... so the 9 of us went.

we had no idea where the place was; we started driving down 54 towards southpoint (cause that's where we figured it was). alas, it was not in the shopping center directly across from southpoint, so i had to turn to one of those phone numbers where you call for directions (i use 1-800-CALL-ALEXBORST) and got the phone number to the restaurant.

we immediately noticed it had striking resemblances to eastern lights ... except the menu was more varied. when we sat down, we got _NEW_ chopsticks (that got the immediate approval of sun and han) ... and the VARIETY of jjambbong (KOREAN OR CHINESE?!) ...

we waiting excitedly, discussing whether it would be morally right to abandon eastern lights for this new (possibly awesome) restaurant!

welllllllllllllll

when we first got our food, we thought there was a _lot_ more. alas, it only turned out the bowls made it seem so. and the soup was WEAK! aggghhh! we ordered "extra spicy," but it was not even remotely spicy! we did get more stuff with our jjambbong than eastern lights, but the soup itself seemed more ramen-ish then jjambbong-ish. but the noodles were better than eastern lights!

overall, we decided to stick with eastern light, _but_ daniel *did* warn us that they were often hit or miss ... so i will give china express the benefit of the doubt - i will return someday to partake in more food!