One of the lunch specials at Fortune House on Signal Mountain is Tai Chin Chicken. It is shown served with hot-and-sour soup.IF YOU GO
¦ Where: Fortune House, 1238 Taft Highway(Suite 178), Signal Mountain.¦ Phone: 423-517-8999.¦ Hours: 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday,11 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-9:30p.m. Sunday.¦ Price range (entrees): $3.95 (vegetable friedrice)-$14.75 (Seven Stars Around the Moon).
Chinese lunch buffets are an attractive and inexpensive option for many a Chattanooga diner, but the various entrees usually lack spiciness and often taste the same in order to please the client with the average palate.
So, for a recent lunch, I chose, instead, to order off the menu at Fortune House, a small diner in a midtown Signal Mountain strip mall.
The menu was extensive, so I felt safe in ordering a dish marked “hot and spicy,” convinced the dish would be individually prepared to my specification.
My mouth watered as I drove up the mountain, having planned to pick up my lunch to go and visit with my mother at her home.