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| - First of all, there really is a Flo. It's her face on the website, and you will see her at Flo's Chinese Restaurant often, walking the tables, checking on her guests, a strong quiet presence. Here is what I think you need to know: Flo gets it. She understands what people want, how much, how fast, and she get's that while things are better, they can still be tight.
Iv'e been to dinner at Flo's with a party as big as 17. Finding a restaurant that will please the 17 distinct and neurotic personalities of food-mates, (Settle down, I keep you anonymous) is no small task.
There are roughly 15 Appetizers to choose from, and Flo's sweet and sour sauce is the mortar we use to hold them all together. It is great on everything, and I've poured it straight from the saucer into my mouth. It's so good I've devoted a whole paragraph to it. Back to the Appetizers. My daughter Olivia will lie right to your face to get an extra Flo's spring roll. She will fake a limp, put her arm in a sling, ask you if you've lost weight. Whatever it takes. Our Wing-nut, we'll call him Cluck Norris, calls Flo's Salt and Pepper Chicken Wings one of his favorites. I'm happy enough with the little bowl of wontons and sweet and sour sauce, Flo's version of chips and salsa, that come to the table gratis.
Flo's offers a green dinner salad. The lettuce is fresh, topped with some orange slices, pretty standard stuff. It's the dressing, this magnificent, green, sweet, horseradishey (look it up, it's an actual culinary term) nectar that is absolutely fabulous. We've tried to coax a few of the ingredients out of Flo's savvy and tight-lipped crew, telling them we have allergies and that it's a safety concern, but no dice. They smile knowingly and give nothing away.
The main courses are solid, and we can't budge our kids from their favorites. My son, 19 and 6'7" has two favorites, the Cinnamon Shrimp and the Sweet and Sour Chicken. The shrimp are plump and sautéed with peas and carrots in a sweet-spicy sauce with a hint of cinnamon. It is served, as several of Flo's dishes are, over shredded lettuce. Yeah, shredded lettuce. My favorite dish, the Lemon Pepper Shrimp and Chicken, comes over shredded lettuce and it hits all the gustatory pleasure zones. The shrimp pops in your mouth, the chicken is sliced thin and together with the lemon and pepper, the oils and scallions, is savory and spicy, crunchy and rich. I have to tell you, I've tried to speak while eating it and drooled right in front of a loan officer I'd taken to lunch. It's just the price of doing business at Flo's.
A Chinese restaurant is only as good as it's Sweet and Sour Sauce. I know an authentic sweet and sour sauce is supposed to be browner than it is red. The sweet is supposed to come from the sugars in fruit or honey, the sour from vinegar. So, in terms of authenticity, where's all the ubiquitous bright red sauce come from? I don't care. I want my Sweet and Sour sauce really sweet, and slut lipstick red. Flo's delivers. It is soo good. I could eat a bowl of white rice, drenched in Flo's Sweet and Sour, every day for the next 9 months and not get bored. When I'm alone, I like to take a big table spoon of it and smash it into my face then pull the spoon away and let it fall down my shirt, then I spend the next 3 minutes licking my lips. Yeah, I have a problem.
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