I ventured into the new Pan Asia take-out restaurant on Clark Road with hopes of real Chinese—not Florida Chinese, which I do not have time to go into! Although it’s a bit unusual to serve Asian fare and gelato in the same location, the menu seemed quite promising, with Vietnamese, Chinese and Korean barbecue specialties. The menu is beautifully printed on the wall, and the place had been open a week, so I had high hopes that the order taker would actually know the menu. After a longggggggggg process of explaining what I wanted, I sat at one of the two tables to wait for my order, which consisted of four different dishes. In less than 15 minutes (quite efficient for cooked to order) I received one bag. I questioned the order taker who told me everything was in there. Of course, the better judgment came at a red light a few miles up the road when I opened the bag to find only the spare ribs and beef fried rice; the lettuce wraps and ginger broccoli (which was a struggle for the order taker to understand) were noticeably absent.
Pan Asia’s menu looked promising…
