Saturday, November 8th, 2008
Last night I had dinner with some former coworkers at a Cantonese restaurant that I had never been to in the International District. Even though there were 5 of us (all of whom were Asian) they only gave the menus to the two Chinese women in our party. Since they were taking me out to dinner to in celebration of my last day at work, I let them choose the place and order the food. Plus, I always find that I get infinitely better service when someone who is Chinese orders anyways (rather me pointing or ordering by number).
Well, they ordered a feast. Dungeness crab, stir-fried pea vines, salt and pepper squid, steamed sea bass with green onion and ginger, some dish that ended with the word “delight” and squab. Yup, squab. They tried to pawn it off as Cornish Game hens or quail but when that baby hit the table I immediately knew what it was by the cranial structure of the birds head. That ain’t no quail. (more…)
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