Posted on 12/10/2014 4:48:01 AM PST by marktwain
My favorite restaurant in Yuma is the Yummy Yummy at 2241 Avenue A. It is in the corner of the strip mall and easy to miss. It isn't a fancy place, rather utilitarian, with ridiculously low prices and excellent food. The service is good, but as the place is litterally a mom and pop (the mother speaks English, Spanish, and Chinese fluently), do not expect to have her hovering over your table. For the cost of a drink at most bars, you can get a complete meal, if you drink water. They have $5 specials that are always available, even on Sunday after church.
That is where I was when I noticed the open carrier above. Not unexpectedly, he was a former student. I cannot remember them all, but for 15 years about half the CCW permits in Yuma were through the course that I ran. We had a pleasant chat and I gave him a copy of my card to keep in touch. The restaurant has gotten mixed reviews on Yelp. I find that eating off a horizontal surface, with real silverware, cold drinks, hot food, and *air conditioning* to be a marvelous luxury, so such things as lack of linen or expensive artwork does not bother me. YMMV.
It reminded me of a differnent day after church, when I had invited freinds to the Yummy Yummy for a bit of dress-up:
Dressup with a friend after church one day at the Yummy Yummy.
Eggplant in Oyster Sauce.
Tiny baby bok choi in light sauce of ginger slices and chunks of garlic.
They know they’ll never be robbed!
Bok Choi quickly sauted in olive oil with a dash of sea salt and pepper is awesome!
Alton Brown's SE Asian Peanut Butter recipe is great in classic Peanut Sauce: 2 tbl soy sauce, tbl ea p/butter, hoisin, grated gingerroot, minced gar/cl.
Mix Peanut Sauce into steamed Japanese eggplant strips, julienned bell pepper, carrot, bok choy, onion----serve on a bed of hot basmati rice.
If I’m ever in Yuma I will go there!
Kinda reminds Me of a Chinese Family Grocery Store in Houston back in the ‘70’s.
Except the Open Carry part- if somebody walked into that store with a gun the Owners knew it was not good.
They were ready just in case.
2 Mac10’s and 2 .44 Mag Revolvers plus more I’m sure...
sweet and sour chicken with a hint of gunpowder
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