Yum. As you might know I grew up in Hawaii. I was exposed to every ethnic food known to man, and I loved just about all of it. But my parents were from Canada and my dad was an Irish meat and potatoes guy. He didn’t even like rice. Oh the humanity.

But when I went to school we always had rice served in the cafeterias along with the whatever they made meals. My mom would sometimes take me to a Chinese restaurant on the way home when she picked me to take me home from school. Around 7th grade she introduced me to a dish she had eaten in Vancouver Canada while growing up there. Crispy Gau Gee Mien. Hmmmm good. Yes! It consists of a bed of noodles topped with a mix of stir fried selected veggies and slivers of meat and topped with pillows of gau gee. The noodles float in a delicious thin gravy surrounded with the rest of the goodies.

Gau gee are something like won ton only better. Little deep fried pillows of shredded meat/veggies surrounded in a won ton pastry crust. You dip them in a bowl of mixed mustard and shoyu (soy sauce) and chow them down while eating the rest of the delicious concoction. It is the best one dish meal you can possibly eat, except of course—perhaps—for the dreaded Phaded Thai’s.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.