Good Eats?

Food. Its one of my favorite things, I love Food!!!! However, since I've been back to school I have yet to really enjoy a meal. I when I say enjoy a meal I mean the actual food on the plate. I've gone out to eat with my friends around campus, off campus, even at the dorms and enjoyed the meal due to the people I was with. HOWEVER, I haven't had a really awesome meal yet. Nothing is satisfying to me, I keep thinking if I was at home this would be ten times better. Maybe that's it! I'm homesick? But I'm a senior in college, and I was just home last weekend. Where, by the way, I had some amazing chinese from my favorite and also the best chinese restaurant ever: Moon Garden. Their chinese is authentic and oh so wonderful!!!! I'm dying for it right now. Their fried rice is brown, not light brown, not peach, not orangey...its brown brown, milk chocolate brown, b/c its fried rice!! Also they use eggs in their fried rice, which I love. The make the best food in the world!!! I've been begging my mom to either bring me some Moon Garden when she comes to visit for Homecoming or to FedEx me an order. She's currently refused all of my frequent requests. If I could find a really awesome chinese place down here in Champaign, that would really make my day...no life. I mean all these years and not one good chinese place? IF ANYONE KNOWS OF A GOOD CHINESE PLACE LET ME KNOW!!!! I'm dying for some good chinese. Also some really good all-american cooking. Not burgers, fries, or any fast food crap. I want homecooking!! Like pan-seared herb chicken, and sauteed greens with garlic and caramelized onions. Food like that, and red roasted mashed potatoes with peas. I know I've been watching way too much Food Network you think. No, that is how my mother actually cooks!!! Her citrus herb roasted chicken is so amazing, and so is her lime-cilantro marinated flank steaks. Then of course her grilled salmon, and homemade apple crisp, there is so much stuff she makes!!! I need to eat NOW!!! OH and her spaghetti with marinara and italian sausage, her formaggio sauce is amazing too. I hate Champaign! There is nothing truly wonderful here. Atleast I have yet to satisfy my food cravings. I can cook too. I just live in a dorm so that is so impossible for me to make a great meal. Besides I don't have the tools either, my dorm does have a kitchen, but I have no pots and pans. Also the stove downstairs is electric...I prefer gas to get a really good flavor in the food, and it does make a difference. So anyway I guess I'll just have to continue my efforts in getting my mother to bring me some of her food or atleast to pick up an order of Moon Garden for me.