Yum Cha
On Sunday, I went with a bunch of friends for Yum Cha. Yum Cha is a Chinese breakfast/brunch. The servers come around with carts of food, and you select what you want. It works a bit like Lamberts, except you don’t order your main course.
It was really good stuff, but I couldn’t tell you what most of it was. There were lots of minced meats in dumplings or rolled rice noodles. The most extravagent thing that I ate was chicken feet. They deep fried some chicken feet and then put some barbecue sauce on them. It was actually pretty good. You had to seperate out the bones in your mouth though, and it felt a little weird sticking a claw in your mouth.
The whole thing was a good experience though. It’s nice to see some other cultures. I don’t think I’m going to be able to eat regular American Chinese food again without thinking about that experience.
That’s not the only new thing I’ve tried though. Monday night, I had a Malaysian fruit called Durein(sp? pronounced dew-rain). It wasn’t bad at all. I doubt that I would eat it every day though. Today, I had Lebonese for lunch. It wasn’t all that exotic, so I the restaraunt I was in was probably quite westernized. It was pretty good though.