Sightseeing around Silicon Valley

Today I took Eva, Nancy, and their mother sightseeing around the bay area. We first went to Napa and visited Robert Mondavi Winery for wine tasting.

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Afterwards, we stopped by at Beringer Vineyards and the CIA. On the way back south we had lunch at Mustards Grill. It was my second time at the restaurant. I wasn't very hungry and ordered the soup and crab cakes. The soup was a tomato soup with 4 lamb and pork meatballs. The crab cakes were small but completely filled with crab. I also tried a piece of duck and a pork rib.

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After Napa we went to SCU and then Santana Row. We ended our day walking around Stanford.

Fortune Garden

I had lunch with Oscar at his friend's new restaurant. It's called Fortune Garden (雙燕樓) and located on Steven's Creek in Cupertino.

We tried a few dishes:





The shrimp and beef dishes were sweet although they were supposed to be spicy. The flavours were similar and I would describe both as 'orange shrimp' and 'orange beef' but I think the menu named them differently. The waiter that took our order should have mentioned that both dishes were similar. The restaurant was almost full while we dined there and remained that way for most of our meal. Unfortunately this was because service was slow and there was not a lot of turnover. Most of the customers were in large groups of 6+ people. It took us about an hour and a half to finish and I think only one table had to be cleared for new customers by the time we left.

Their specialty is Roast Peking Duck and it has to be ordered an hour in advance. I think we'll try that the next time we go there.