We're a happy family

Happy Family is a vegetarian Chinese restaurant named after a Ramones song. Don't believe me? What band was famous for bowl haircuts? Played a song called "Chinese Rocks"? Recorded a couple albums at the Chungking House of Metal?

Okay, maybe not. But whenever J Church is in town, we usually wind up eating there. Today was no different. After the group paid respect to the resting place of D. Boon in San Pedro, I met them at the Monterey Park restaurant. It has moved from its original location on Atlantic just south of the 10 to the intersection of Atlantic and Garvey. The band was glad that there's still an all-you-can-eat deal and that the House Special chicken (mushrooms) is still great. Other dishes included sweet and sour pork (taro) ribs, veggie (soy) fish, and mustard greens with bean curd sheets (just that). It wasn't as cheap as other vegetarian Chinese joints, but it was totally good, and should really count as two meals. Why not? Their next meal will be in Las Cruces.



Pictured here are Lance (guitar and vocals), Stacy (merch), Chris (drums), and Ben (bass).



In this photo, I'm holding something that was given to Lance from a fan in Olympia to hand to me. Cool, but what is it? A Shrinky Dink?