In which I eat even more
I'm trying to keep myself up so I can catch my flight, which is at an ungodly hour of the morning.
Um, someone please tell me if everyone is already really sick of all the fooding already? I can talk about food and obsess about food nearly non-stop, so... uh, yes.
Also, as I'm sure everyone has noticed, LJ's email comments function still isn't working that great. I'm trying to keep track, but since most of my brain power has been dedicated to books and food the past few days, my replying to comments batting average is currently really bad.
Anyway... I ate more today! What a surprise ;). Me and my sister and a whole bunch of my sister's friends went to have dim sum in Chinatown. Technically it was more of a ... 2:00 pm thing, but the restaurant was still really crowded, so everyone else must have gotten up late as well ^_^.
coffeeandink, I totally forgot to give you the business card tonight! I think your Incredible Wall of Books hypnotized me. Anyhow, the place is called Ping Seafood Restaurant, and it is on 22 Mott St.
We had some pretty typical dim sum: BBQ pork buns, turnip cake, shrimp wrapped with some noodle-y thing in these long tubes with soy sauce on top (I have got to learn the English name for these things), taro dumpling things with crispy outsides and some meat on the inside, etc. The dim sum was serviceable but not spectacular; I think there were too many people post-Thanksgiving, so all our stuff was slightly cold. On the other hand, I had some things that I either wasn't able to get at other places before, or just was but didn't know I should ask for it. This is why I love eating with people who are not my family. I mean, I love eating with people who are my family, because there are some standard dishes that are absolute musts, and sharing is a good thing. But eating with new people means new things that I haven't had before!
In this case, it was the shrimp-noodle-y thing, except with fried strips of dough instead of shrimp on the inside (you tiao). The you tiao are really deep fried, but they aren't thick at all. Instead, they're long but mostly hollow and honey-combed with bubbles, really crispy and usually eating with shao bing, these denser, more floury, scallion pancake like things sans the scallion and plus sesame seeds on the outside for late night snacks or breakfast. Anyway, it was good and crunchy, especially with the white floppy noodle-y skin. Yum. Also, one of Ning's friends got this shrimp mixture on a hot chili pepper, and it totally works.
I have also lost total Asian foodie cred, because I thought it was super spicy and everyone else did not. Woe. Hey, this means I should have more Korean ^_^.
And the special on the window outside was salt and pepper soft shell crab, which I got because it sounded good. It was good. It was deep-fried, so the outside was wonderfully crunchy, and there was enough salt and pepper on the outside for spice and flavor, and the inside was melty, rich crab, with all the guts and legs still attached, which meant extra sea flavor and extra crunchiness. It probably would have been better if it had come to us directly from the deep fryer, but oh well. Such are the hazards of busy restaurants.
Anyway, I sadly have no idea if the place's seafood was any good, despite the many good reviews pasted on the window outside (I tend to distrust reviews of Chinese restaurants unless they come from people who have had non-American Chinese food, because I inevitably end up comparing the place to Taiwan, which is entirely unfair). But there were giant tanks with live fish and crabs and shrimp right by the entrance, which is always a good sign.
I walked off most of the fooding via window shopping in SoHo with my sister and one of her friends (found this really cute white leather motorcycle jacket, and I've been dying to get one because my sister has one and I covet it, but it wasn't in great condition. Want to go to mall tomorrow).
I also got a really cute pink hat! It is felted! It has a sort of floppy brim! I wear it crooked and pretend it's a fedora so I can be a cool femme fatale or detective or something, although generally that impression is spoiled by the fact that it is pink and has little flowers on the side. Plus, seven dollars, down from 35 ^_^. And... pink! With flowers! Brim! Really cute! (fannishly, you can yell at me when I get home, seeing how I keep buying hats for the cute factor and not wearing them.) And I stole my sister's new pink houndstooth scarf, along with her pink shirt, and I was totally girly. Yay. And I had striped socks, which made me happy.
Ooo, and then I dragged my sister and her friend to Macy's and ogled at their floor o' Christmas decorations. I got one for me, since I seem to be collecting Christmas ornaments from different places. It is also pink and beaded.
Anyway, the car is here now and I have to go. More on dinner at coffeeandink's later!
Um, someone please tell me if everyone is already really sick of all the fooding already? I can talk about food and obsess about food nearly non-stop, so... uh, yes.
Also, as I'm sure everyone has noticed, LJ's email comments function still isn't working that great. I'm trying to keep track, but since most of my brain power has been dedicated to books and food the past few days, my replying to comments batting average is currently really bad.
Anyway... I ate more today! What a surprise ;). Me and my sister and a whole bunch of my sister's friends went to have dim sum in Chinatown. Technically it was more of a ... 2:00 pm thing, but the restaurant was still really crowded, so everyone else must have gotten up late as well ^_^.
coffeeandink, I totally forgot to give you the business card tonight! I think your Incredible Wall of Books hypnotized me. Anyhow, the place is called Ping Seafood Restaurant, and it is on 22 Mott St.
We had some pretty typical dim sum: BBQ pork buns, turnip cake, shrimp wrapped with some noodle-y thing in these long tubes with soy sauce on top (I have got to learn the English name for these things), taro dumpling things with crispy outsides and some meat on the inside, etc. The dim sum was serviceable but not spectacular; I think there were too many people post-Thanksgiving, so all our stuff was slightly cold. On the other hand, I had some things that I either wasn't able to get at other places before, or just was but didn't know I should ask for it. This is why I love eating with people who are not my family. I mean, I love eating with people who are my family, because there are some standard dishes that are absolute musts, and sharing is a good thing. But eating with new people means new things that I haven't had before!
In this case, it was the shrimp-noodle-y thing, except with fried strips of dough instead of shrimp on the inside (you tiao). The you tiao are really deep fried, but they aren't thick at all. Instead, they're long but mostly hollow and honey-combed with bubbles, really crispy and usually eating with shao bing, these denser, more floury, scallion pancake like things sans the scallion and plus sesame seeds on the outside for late night snacks or breakfast. Anyway, it was good and crunchy, especially with the white floppy noodle-y skin. Yum. Also, one of Ning's friends got this shrimp mixture on a hot chili pepper, and it totally works.
I have also lost total Asian foodie cred, because I thought it was super spicy and everyone else did not. Woe. Hey, this means I should have more Korean ^_^.
And the special on the window outside was salt and pepper soft shell crab, which I got because it sounded good. It was good. It was deep-fried, so the outside was wonderfully crunchy, and there was enough salt and pepper on the outside for spice and flavor, and the inside was melty, rich crab, with all the guts and legs still attached, which meant extra sea flavor and extra crunchiness. It probably would have been better if it had come to us directly from the deep fryer, but oh well. Such are the hazards of busy restaurants.
Anyway, I sadly have no idea if the place's seafood was any good, despite the many good reviews pasted on the window outside (I tend to distrust reviews of Chinese restaurants unless they come from people who have had non-American Chinese food, because I inevitably end up comparing the place to Taiwan, which is entirely unfair). But there were giant tanks with live fish and crabs and shrimp right by the entrance, which is always a good sign.
I walked off most of the fooding via window shopping in SoHo with my sister and one of her friends (found this really cute white leather motorcycle jacket, and I've been dying to get one because my sister has one and I covet it, but it wasn't in great condition. Want to go to mall tomorrow).
I also got a really cute pink hat! It is felted! It has a sort of floppy brim! I wear it crooked and pretend it's a fedora so I can be a cool femme fatale or detective or something, although generally that impression is spoiled by the fact that it is pink and has little flowers on the side. Plus, seven dollars, down from 35 ^_^. And... pink! With flowers! Brim! Really cute! (fannishly, you can yell at me when I get home, seeing how I keep buying hats for the cute factor and not wearing them.) And I stole my sister's new pink houndstooth scarf, along with her pink shirt, and I was totally girly. Yay. And I had striped socks, which made me happy.
Ooo, and then I dragged my sister and her friend to Macy's and ogled at their floor o' Christmas decorations. I got one for me, since I seem to be collecting Christmas ornaments from different places. It is also pink and beaded.
Anyway, the car is here now and I have to go. More on dinner at coffeeandink's later!