Today I had the pretty great experience of bringing a totally new restaurant into existence through sher force of will. We were driving around Wilmington, looking through Jaimee's parents' Coastal NC Coupon book for someplace to eat. I knew that where I really wanted to eat was BD's Mongolian Barbeque in Cleveland, OH, the second-greatest restaurant in all the world. Failing that I'd settle for any Mongolian-style restaurant.

The place also had to be very close, because we were starving.

It was a hopeless effort. But as I flipped through the pages--hungry, desperate, but never losing faith--suddenly, there it was: BDobo Mongolian Grill, 419 S. College Rd., not five minutes from where we were.

And it was good.