For some reason, a really bad night’s sleep. I finally get up at 7:30 to pack and update this blog. Steve and Lauren will be by at 9:30 in a cab, which will carry us to Jade Seafood, reputedly one of, if not the best, dim sum palaces. I saved this one for the last day because I know I can’t take two meals like this! We take the cab out and head past the airport and Steve wonders aloud if we’ll ever make it out again. Our driver tells us that this area is 65% Hong Kong and Chinese inhabitants. It seems strange that they still call the southeast downtown area Chinatown when it’s obviously moved further south. Who knows.
We arrive in the restaurant and luckily do not have to wait for a table. It does take me a bit to get over my shock when I realize there are no rolling carts. I have to say that again: no rolling carts! I don’t think I’ve ever had dim sum when I couldn’t point and ask and scrunch up my nose or light up my face to indicate whether I want some or not. So, we order quite a selection and I still ask what various dishes are going past. Only have to add one thing that seems pretty popular.
The food arrives in short order and we enjoy every bit of it. The highlights for me were:
Mushroom-filled steamed dumplings (back, left), the stuffed eggplant (lower right) and the spicy sautéed green beans with bits of pork and onion mixed in and a very strange fibery-looking item on top (I asked a Chinese woman waiting in line for a table and she said it’s like pork jerky that’s been dried and shredded):
Wouldn’t cha know that the best things are the veggies! We have a fun meal:
and even get Lauren to eat some Asian cuisine (she normally eats no Chinese food). What a sport!
What a way to go….I get a box for the leftovers (will they even make it to the plane?) and we head to the airport immediately after that and home again, home again, jiggity jig.
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