So, on my second anniversary of being gluten free, I thought I'd start yet another blog. Maybe I can actually keep up with this one!

After finding out that my department was going to be getting Chinese food for our 'grad student lunch with visiting speaker,' I ran over to the restaurant this afternoon to see if there was anything I could eat. Chinese food is one of the hardest things for a person who is gluten free to find something safe to eat at. Between the flour coating, the soy sauce (which has wheat in it), MSG, and a myriad of other issues, it's usually next to impossible to find something to eat besides steamed veggies and white rice.
This restaurant, Chang's Garden, across the street from the UCONN Storr's campus, literally made me tear up. The woman at the front knew exactly what I couldn't have when I said I was gluten free. She explained all of the items I could have on the menu including to my unbelievable surprise (and major skepticism), Sesame Chicken. They use cornstarch to coat the chicken and use no soy sauce or MSG in it. Many other items on the menu, such as General Tso's can be made with the "white sauce" instead of the regular sauce and while the taste is a bit different, it's safe. Their egg drop soup is thickened with corn starch and safe. They also offer mei fun noodles (thin rice noodles) on request to sub into other noodle dishes. We're getting takeout next Tuesday so I'll post afterwards to let you know how it goes!

Tonight I'm going to try a pizza restaurant in Norwich, Engine No 6, that I've been wanting to try for some time. They have gluten free pizza, breadsticks, and calzone that they make themselves daily so it's not frozen! I'll report on that as soon as I eat it.