Once a very good Chinese restaurant, Ming’s Bistro has had an ownership change and the quality has flagged. It is not currently recommended.

There’s a little more emphasis on the cocktails than the food, but the food is good. (The drinks are better.)

Ingredient selection is high tech, effectuated via ordering kiosks at the quick-serve restaurant. So in that sense, the Mongolorian is an assemblage concept – choose your starch, choose your protein, your vegetables and sauces and anything else you can think of that might make your dish ultimately inedible.

An “Italianish” restaurant from the owner of Pig Floyd’s Barbacoa. There are some barbecue and Italian fusion items but fewer than you’d expect.

A plant-based burger concept that doesn’t try hard enough. It is not currently recommended.

Poke Hana is one of the more recent entries among the the local poke providers. It occupies a rather spartan but colorful spot in a storefront on East Colonial Drive in the Mills 50 district. One supposes the decor is meant to approximate a beachside shack somewhere in Hawaii. There are long narrow tables (too narrow, really, for two people to sit across from one another) with yellow and white metal chairs that no one would ever look at and think, “Boy, those sure look comfortable.” Touches of neon, ceiling fans with a rattan look, and a projector splashing a video of surfers on one of the walls completes the Maui-like mien.

It’s a full service restaurant with a spartan but tasteful decor and exceptionally friendly service. I stopped in for a quick lunch just to check the place out and ordered the Mussaman Curry with chicken. Although the dish’s listing on the menu has a chili pepper next to it, this mussaman was mild, which is actually the way it should be. It has as its base a creamy coconut milk that’s fried with a paste filled with myriad spices, including cardamom, peppers, dried chili powder and cilantro.

There are several restaurants in the area that specialize in Asian street fare, but Sticky Rice sticks to the foods of Laos. The title dish comes in a plastic bag instead of a bamboo steamer as it might on the streets of Vientiane, but you eat it the same, by pulling off a bit with your fingers and dipping it into one of the provided sauces.

Token Ramen, which shares the address with Kung Fu Tea, is a quick-serve concept out of Largo. The Orlando store is its 10th, with all others within the Sunshine State. Another Orlando location is planned for Lake Nona.

The back of a staffer’s t-shirt at Toojay’s – the only t-shirt that didn’t have “Oy Vey” on it – read, “Is this where Harry met Sally?” The short answer is no, it isn’t. That’s also the long answer.