Five Stars Chinese Restaurant

Our adventure took us to a Chinese restaurant today. We first checked out the reviews of Chinese restaurants in Karlsruhe and decided to go to Fünf Sterne (Five Stars) China Restaurant 五星飯店 at Mendelssonhnplatz, which is only several tram stops away, for lunch.

We were offered the lunch buffet. Glenda checked out the buffet offerings and thought ordering à la carte was probably a better option. Then came a menu in simplified Chinese characters after the waiter decided that Alan knew enough Chinese to understand it.

We ordered several dishes, mostly northern Chinese dishes:

• Dumplings 鍋貼
• Drunk chicken 醉鳼
• Shrimp dumpling 蝦蛟
• New year cake 上海炒年糕
• Fried rice 楊州炒飯

Prices were higher than those in the Bay Area, particularly the water we ordered for the kids. One thing we learned about dining in Germany is that water is not free. But we did not expect to pay a premium for two glasses of water. In any case, the dishes were not too bad and we enjoyed them (although we have had better...well...we spent three weeks in Hong Kong this summer). Here are a few pictures of the dishes.

There is a huge supermarket (Edeka Markt) in the mall Scheck-In Center next to the restaurant. It is by far the largest supermarket we have found in Karlsruhe. There we found clementines, our kids' favorite fruit, and brought a few home.