in general, i’m not a fan of chain restaurants…there are too many delicious options in this city to settle on some mediocre, cookie-cutter cuisine. 

however, there is an exception.

i adore P.F. Chang’s. i just do. crunchy, sweet, salty, coated chicken and shrimp. tasty noooooooodles and veggies and flavourful fried rices. but nothing…and i mean nothing…beats their infamous lettuce wraps. i’ve tried countless times to replicate it, researching copycat recipes, to no avail. nothing even comes close. 

when i was there a few weeks ago, i grilled our waiter on the ingredients in the lettuce wraps and he told me that 90% of their customers order them. he then started rattling off ingredients, but the only thing i remember is “vegetarian oyster sauce”, which i’ve never seen in any copy cat recipe.

anyways toronto, apparently the tasty, americanized chinese food chain is heading our way sometime later in 2012. 

click here for a very popular lettuce wrap recipe (although it won’t taste AS good as the real thing).