Another Sichuan jour fixe this evening. I’d given my chile heads a choice between 2 spots, as well as between today & tomorrow. Both my PIC and I would have preferred tomorrow, when it’s his long day on campus, plus a snowstorm started descending on our lil town late this afternoon…
No matter: the 12 votes favored today and — unlike some governments — I happen to respect majority wishes.
Unfortunately, we had several late notice cancellations for any number of reasons.
The remaining 7 of us gathered at one of our favorite Sichuan restaurants & ordered a wonderful variety of dishes: garlic cukes,
pork dumplings in chili oil,
Chongqing chicken,
cumin lamb,
fish with soft tofu & ground pork,
eggplant casserole with ground pork,
and dry-fried green beans.
Since our vegan couple was one of the cancellations, we could go full carnivore this time around. Everything was really excellent, and we took some leftovers home.
After today’s experience, future Sichuan group dinners will have a decidedly more dictatorial approach in that I will choose the weekday & place for which people can sign up. Kind of over the voting system at this point 
