New favorite restaurant!

To celebrate completing our new back patio, James wanted to go out for dinner. He was in the mood for fajitas, so we headed up to the BWI airport area to Los Portales. (Un)fortunately, Los Portales had a waiting line of 20 groups before we could get in.

Rather than waiting somewhere close to an hour, we decided to try the Asian restaurant next door, Nini's.

This is a FIND! All of the food is prepared fresh. They prepare food from a variety of Asian traditions-a bit of Chinese, sushi, Thai, Vietnamese, Filipino, etc. Portion sizes are generous-even Samuel needed a to go box. James was the only one who didn't, and he'd spent hours building the patio since he'd last eaten.

The first thing that caught our eyes was the variety of offerings we could eat. It is the only non-vegetarian restaurant we've ever visited that gives us more than a dozen vegan options. I ordered General Tso's Tofu! James chose Kung Pao Tofu, and Liza had Vegetable Lo Mein. And they said they could make anything else vegetarian by leaving out the meat.

The next delight was the presentation. Food is served in large shallow bowls. My bowl was edged with orange slices, diagonally-sliced cucumbers, sliced tomatoes and shredded carrots. Sitting atop my entree was a swan carved from an apple. James's and Samuel's bowls "only" had fancy cut orange bowls. Liza had a rose from a tomato, and Tori had a toasted turnip rose. The highlight was probably Miriam's-a goldfish cut from a lemon, with an orange-peel dorsal fin, a cucumber slice tail, and cloves for eyes.

The food was fabulous! I eagerly recommend it to anyone in the area!

Nini's Asian Restaurant-Cromwell Center-just off I-97 near Cromwell Business Park. The actual address is on MD-176. 7-11 is next door to the strip mall where Nini's is located.