FOOD EXPRESS II CHINESE RESTAURANT in Palace Station

The words “great food” and “Palace Station” usually don’t collide in the same sentence. But when the folks who run Food Express Chinese Restaurant (yes, that’s the official name) on south Decatur decided to lease space in O.J.’s favorite casino, ELV was all in, as they say.

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LEMONGRASS CAFE

Case in point (see preceding post): The Lemongrass Cafe. Everyone said we “had” to try it. Even a palate as sophisticated as Dr. Pat Moreo’s (major domo/Dean at the Hospitality School at UNLV) said it was a find. And it was…somewhat tough to find tucked away in a defunct Five and Diner at that shopping center on the Northeast corner of Eastern and the I-215.

But find it we did, first for a feast with the good Doc, wife Rosalie and friends, then twice more in rapid succession to see what all the shoutin’s about.

And it was good. Very good. And in taste…exactly like the last fifteen Vietnamese restaurants we’ve been to.

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