The Tally-ho clan celebrated the visit of some very entertaining in-laws with an excellent dinner at King's Island, the Chinese restaurant in the Shoppes at Longwood Village.
I was fighting off a cold and had just run some extra laps at the Kennett Y to give the Occupy Tilda germs their eviction notice. I was looking forward to spending the snowy evening wrapped up on the sofa watching a DVD, but then someone proposed Chinese for dinner and -- well, that was all I needed to hear.
I hadn't been to the King's Island for dinner since they reopened after a kitchen fire in 2010, and I'm delighted to report that the food is just as good as ever. We ordered moo goo gai pan, General Tso's Chicken, Chicken with Ginger, Scallions and Black Beans, Mongolian Beef and a giant combo platter called Seven Stars that came topped with a yellow cocktail umbrella. The chef prepared a custom seafood dish for the youngest member of our family and he was very pleased with it.
Service was good and cheerful and the organized waitress kept us well supplied with rice, tea, water and, at dinner's end, takeout boxes. When my brother received a fortune cookie without a fortune inside, she brought him a replacement.
The ritual fight over the check was swift and was won by the visitors rather than the home team this time.
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