Food Parc

This new food court brings to mind an updated automat. It's a fun setup. There are four food vendors (Asian, Italian, burgers, coffee shop), you make your choices on touch-screen menus, swipe your card, get a receipt with an order number, track the order's progress on monitors, and pick up your bagged lunch at a counter.

It's a good fast lunch place, nice for mixed groups: those of us who like to mix and match and those who always order burgers.

The Red Farm Stand offers soup, dumplings and dim sum, all quite good for fast food. The mushroom spring rolls are very crispy, not at all greasy. The tasty fresh-veg stuffing has great color and texture. The shrimp wonton soup with watercress arrived too hot to eat, topped with fresh watercress, spinach, onions and ginger. The stock tasted bland at first sip, but as the veg steeped the broth became much more flavorful. The soup's four plump and tasty shrimp-stuffed wontons in translucent wrappers made for a surprisingly hearty meal.

At $9, the spring roll and soup may have been more expensive than a couple of items at a Chinese greasy spoon takeout joint, but the food was orders of magnitude better. Food Parc offers fine-dining-ish food in a fast-food setting.