188: Dim Sum, Dat Sum

This morning started out like any other Saturday, and then we got invited to eat Dim Sum with our Neighbors, who go nearly every week and are regulars. It was a high honor to be invited, and so we accepted, even though I knew that aside from the volume of food, there would be another challenge: Dim Sum=Carbs. However, as I am committed to a way of life, I knew that it was wrong not to go. Instead the right answer is to go and eat what you can, and maybe even a little of what you should not, for life is too short to add stress thinking about one little sesame ball filled with bean paste (which was, for the record, delicious).

Breakfast
Yoplait Blueberry Yogurt (Lite)
1 cup Blueberries/Strawberries
Tea

Snack
1/4 cup Almonds/Cashews
2.4 oz 50% Jalapeno Lite Cheddar

Lunch @ Dim Sum
Eggplant stuffed with shrimp
Bean Curd stuffed with shrimp
Pork (eaten out of the Pork Bun)
3 Spicy Wontons (Steamed rice noodle outside) and mung beans
Meat of 1 Peking Ravioli
Meat of 1 thing that didn't have a name but was essentially a rice-noodle burrito
1 Tarot Rice-Noodle Pod (defying description, it was purple on the inside, which gave the rice noodle outside, which was nearly transparent a purple glow).
Edamame
1 Sesame Rice Ball (that I was trying to get Ruby to eat)
2 pieces of beef from a sesame beef/scallion pancake
1 deep-fried rice noodle ball with something inside it that I didn't know what it was but tasted good
4 pieces Sashimi (Salmon, White Tuna, Yellow Tail, Unagi)

Dinner
Catfish, Leeks & Scallions a la Emily

Sure, when you look at the list you're thinking "Wow, that's quite a meal," but the truth is these are all very small items and I think that lunch lasted about 90 minutes. I don't know about you, but that's a long time to be sitting at a table. At traditional Dim Sum presentations, they come around with a cart and you get to pick what you want (not unlike a Fenway game) but at this restaurant, you have to order from a two-sided, picture-less, description-less menu of items. Because there are no descriptions it is nearly impossible to determine how one thing differs from another, what things are made of, or whether they are served cold or hot, or come in multiples or singles. Luckily, our neighbors were very helpful in that regard, but we still had so much food that the lazy susan was overwhelmed with items. I did eat a lot though, and Emily and knew we had to be on the 'spa dinner'. Luckily, she made an amazing Catfish and that was it.