Houston Remembers

[hazardnc]

Magic Pan is ringing a bell but I can't place it. Anyone remember what they served? Why the pan was magic?

The Magic Pan was in the Galleria Mall. The pan was magic because they made crepes. It wasn't particularly good - I remember some awful chicken crepes.

Back in my day, it was a real treat for my mom to drop me off at the Galleria so I could go ice skating. Was there a Swenson's Ice Cream parlor there? In addition to the ice cream and shopping at Spencer's Gifts for junk, we would go to what I guess was a Mikimoto Pearl store and you could pay a $1 to have them open an oyster to see if you got a pearl. That was right up there with the mini loaves of Mrs. Baird's bread I would buy at Astroworld!

[jscarbor]

I miss swensons. One of my memories is after winning a big ballgame my family all went to swenson's to celebrate. I wasn't feeling good and managed to throw up all over the place. I still feel sorry for whoever cleaned that up.

[LDLee]

After having some awful dumplings for lunch, I had to post to this topic.

I miss Ta Hua's steamed vegetable and steamed pork dumplings. Cheap, filling, tasty.

[franktex]

You got that right! Ta Hua was THE best dumpings in town! The steamed vegetable dumplings were awesome.In case you missed it, R. Walsh recently had a good story on dumplings:

http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2004-10...ining/cafe.html