P.F. Chang, Tulsa, OK

My 79 year old mother and one of her friends drove up to Tulsa this morning in her friend's big black Lincoln land yacht, and I've been out shopping with them since 11 a.m., serving as navigator, tour guide, and chaperone. :-) They have interesting shopping tastes. We ended up at Utica Square, so we happened upon P.F. Chang, and wandered in there for dinner. We each had different hot teas....me with my usual organic green....and then shared spring rolls and crab wontons for appetizers. Our entrees were sweet and sour pork, orange peel chicken, and lemon scallops, accompanied by brown rice. The scallops were especially good tonight, being large and meaty, and the lemon sauce added just the right amount of tart sweetness. For dessert, we all shared a banana spring roll with coconut-pineapple ice cream. As you know, Chang is a national chain, and while they are sort of high end for Chinese food and I always enjoy my food, I still find them to be appallingly expensive. With tax and tip, the three of us spent $72, and we didn't have any alcohol or multiple multiple courses or any extravagant foods like lobster. A $24 Chinese dinner just seems a little excessive to me. After all, it's *just* Chinese! ;-)