Has your family tried one of the Mongolian grill concepts? We visited our local Crazy Fire (no website—how strange!) restaurant today for lunch, and it was perfect.

If you're not familiar with the Mongolian grill thang, you grab a bowl and fill it with your choice of raw ingredients, everything from meats and tofu and veggies to noodles, eggs, ground peanuts, and cilantro. Next, you add a couple of ladles of sauce—I like a mix of ginger-lime and soy, along with a few shakes of dried red peppers.

Then you walk to the open kitchen and hand your bowl to cook who stir-fries your custom meal on a big, hot stone and hands it back to you on a plate with sticky rice. Yummmmy, and healthy.

Baby A liked making her own choices and watching her creation get cooked. I liked that she ate grilled chicken, broccoli, and steamed rice for lunch. And my own stir-fry was delicious.

Give one of these places a try at lunch or dinner. They're reasonably priced, too—our lunch was $10 for two adults and Baby A. Other similar concepts are Genghis Grill and Mongolian Grillle.

On a related note, how cute and kid-appealing are these clothespin chopsticks (above right) from CB2? You can buy them here.

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