In a bigger city, you have more options for food.
This trip to Lansing, we tried different style of dinner. A fun story is that we were planning to have a buffet of Chinese food. But we didn't make it for two times.
The first time, we wanted to have Chinese food is when we arrived in hotel. It's a good time for dinner at 6 pm. The only disadvantage is the restaurant location is a little far and more closer to MSU, which is the other day's visiting destination. Therefore, we changed our mind and wanted to try something new. By googling, we found a nearby restaurant providing Mediterranean cuisine with high rated comments, name Zaytoon. We went there, and found lots of people there enjoy the food. We didn't know what to eat. To be safe, we, four, selected a family feast, which including almost all kinds of Mediterranean food.
We would never image how much food we will have for this option. The appetizers are wraps and some sour flavor sauce. I think only have appetizers would some kind of enough for the dinner. But later, it came with the family feast. It includes lamb grape leaves, falafel, fried kibbie, chicken shawarma, chicken kabobs, beef kabobs, and shish kafta served with rice. Judged from the picture, you will know how much food it is. From my understanding, the lamb grape leaves and shish kafta were good. The chicken kabobs and beef kabobs were a little of over cooked, tasted with bitter flavor. Anyway, it is quite dinner with high cost-performance ratio. Because it is $ 14.99/person. This price you can only eat limited delicious food at Houghton.
The second time, we were planing to have Chinese food after visiting MSU. But professor K recommended another place - Mitchell's Fish Market. The restaurant is well decorated. The food there looks good.
I order an Chef's recommendation, Seasame Crusted Tuna, as shown from the feature picture of this post. It includes seared Hawaiian Ahi, red quinoa with peas, and spring pea puree. I would say the Hawaiian ahi is very impressive. Raw meat inside, sesame covered surface. In addition, the peas are delicious. But, but, but the food is to limited. I still feel hungry after finishing.
Because I was so hungry and I still want to have something to eat. After send our professor back to the hotel, we drove 10 mile, just for a night snack. We don't have this snack in Houghton, but I was planning to eat for quite a long time. You may guess what is it now. Yep, it is the fried chicken. Even it was almost 9 pm after I buy the fried chickens. But it is worth to finish the half small bucket!! I left few pieces of potato wedges. Even they were tasted good, I was so full that can not finish all of them.
Just as I said, you have more food options in a bigger city. Cheers! :smile: :smile:
Hopefully, you don't read this post at night. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes: