Leeann Chin — Restaurant in Ferndale

As a Minnesota expat, I find myself longing for the savory sweet flavor of LeeAnn Chin’s bourbon chicken and the crunchy creamy goodness of their cream cheese puffs. Recently, I intentionally took American Airlines on a trip so I would be in the correct side of the terminal to get LeeAnn Chin on my way out and back in. I also made sure my flights would be me back around lunch time.

My first grab of LeeAnn Chins delicious Bourbon chicken unfortunately was lacking. The chicken was dry instead of the normal juicy I got used to when I lived in Minnesota and would get it weekly. It’s literally a craving at this point even just typing about it. But I digress, maybe it spent too much time under the heat lamp despite it only being just after 1pm. Went on my trip and came back.

My regular at LeeAnn Chin is 2-Bourbon/1-white rice and 3 cream cheese puffs.

So I got the same thing again but this time I was also grabbing some orange chicken and egg rolls for my daughter who was also anxiously waiting with bated breath for her LeeAnn Chin she grew up on in MN.

Sadly, the chicken was just as dry and had me coughing from it. The airport location does NOT do LeeAnn Chin proper justice. Do not be deterred. Please try this properly in MN.

I also want to add that the staff at the BWI airport location seemed very impatient to get me gone and seemed borderline rude (to preface I was the only one in line both time). I literally bee line to LeeAnn Chin if I’m ever in the airport as this is the only place I can get it unless I go back to MN. Which is hard right now.

But regardless if dryness. The bourbon chicken is still delicious and their cream cheese puffs (wontons) only being plain cream cheese makes this amazing as I can’t do crab or the other stuff Chinese places do in...

I came. I saw. I ordered. I paid. I ate. I cried.

Unreal food and service. Like, holy smoking toledos ladies and gentlemen. Next time you have an open weekend, I implore you to go over to the Baltimore airport food court and check out this absolute HEATER of a restaurant called Leeann Chin. The Orange & Bourbon chicken had a tenderness and flavor only rivaled by Grandmama Fuentes’s Thanksgiving dinner. And the service, oh my goodness, don’t even get me STARTED on how AMAZING it was. Penelope lit up my day like a sunrise off the coast of Tunisia. Penelope at the front desk was a paragon of the service industry and everyone working in it should replicate her. There’s so many praises I could sing about her. Her wisdom. Her tenderness. Her laugh. But that didn’t mean that she wasn’t serious and a go getter. She had absolute QUEEN energy and I was damn near close to bowing for her and singing her praises.

Absolutely unreal experience. I laughed. I cried. And I lived. 10/5 stars for Leeann Chen and I want to let y’all’s know this will be an experience I’m never...

I was overserved last night. I saw darkness this morning. I saw Penelope at leean chin, and alas, I saw light. I was taken on a culinary safari, one that exhibited exotic flavors and aromas that made me feel young again. The way I think im supposed to feel. The food made me feel as if I left the stratosphere. But truly, the service of a gentle soul, Penelope, runs on repeat in my mind, as if my thoughts were on a treadmill. She pulls us wary travelers in, the way the moon moves the tides, the way gravity pulls meteors towards earth, the way I keep my feet on the ground and somehow walk across through this crazy world. She is a beacon of hope, in a world ever so void of hope, a lighthouse for sailors who have not stepped foot on land in a while. She is light. Thank you, thank you with all the blood my heart pumps through my veins. It...