Brain squeezin's from the trip and other stuff

[deebeecee]

Gasoline has gone effing insane here. I saw prices for regular at $4.29 to $4.69 on my way home Sunday night. I filled up this morning for $3.79, but the station had only regular to offer, they were out of mid-grade and premium, WTF? 10 miles down the highway it was $3.99. A station down the road from the office was at $5.39, that's five dollars

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[enidjane]

/Are you on Facebook yet?

I'll put in my plug for Toronto as a great food destination. It's the most multicultural city in the world - there's a Koreatown, Chinatown, Greektown, Little India, Little Italy, etc. etc.

Of course, you'll need to come in the summer... and in fact, I think there is a food festival one weekend. And me and my son would love to show you around!

[deebeecee]

I'll give it one more shot, but I still don't "get" facebook. I just seem to find myself really irritated that it doesn't seem to do anything in particular without installing a bunch of stuff on my page thing.

[soopahviv]

There was shrimp, hamachi, salmon roe (the bigger squishy ones are salmon, the little crunchy ones which we didn't try are called tobiko, a.k.a. flying fish roe), unagi (freshwater eel), maaaybe another nigiri item, and a few slices of salmon sashimi.

I think I just registered what you meant by "shrimp roe spaghetti". Noodles with black dots? I grew up on that stuff!

The dim sum place was kind of a north/south hybrid. You had steamed BBQ pork buns ("tsah siu bao"), chicken feet ("foong tsao"), sticky rice (and other tastiness) in lotus leaf, shanghai dumplings ("siu loong bao"), green onion pancake (the Chinese name escapes me), and sesame balls with red bean filling (I can't figure out how to spell the Chinese name for this). All translations are from Cantonese! :)

[deebeecee]

It was actually noodles with orange dots that were crunchy when you bit them (very tiny little things). I ordered shrimp roe, but maybe got flying fish?

The dim sum was excellent. I even liked the chicken feet flavor. The texture took a bit to get used to, though. I did a quick search today and Charlotte boasts a total of two dim sum places (Dragon House and Dim Sum House), one of which allegedly has push carts on weekends!

Thanks a bunch for the recap, I was so over-saturated by Saturday I couldn't remember exactly what we had eaten. *edit* And those lotus leaf things rocked! They were really, really good.