Gelato and Dumplings
Sunday, September 02, 2007
Today was one of those busy days where I was out all day. It was tiring but fun. After church, we met up with some old Pathfinder friends (and their significant others) at Angelato’s Cafe at Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica. The cafe boasted 100 flavors of gelato, though there were some dubious variations that sounded like duplicates of each other. For example, hazelnut and nutella, and mint chocolate chip and “after eight.”
Then Jordan, Batman, Dave and I drove to Arcadia where we ate at Din Tai Fung, a restaurant that specializes in making juicy pork dumplings.
Here is a worker preparing the dough for the dumpling wrappers, noodles, etc. I shot the video using my new toy “ You can see the workers behind him wrapping dumplings and steaming them. I cut off the video when our table, number “002” for four, was called –
Dumpling Maker from Chanlee Sutoyo and Vimeo.
The dumplings were excellent, though I would not recommend some of the other dishes we tried (the beef noodle soup had no flavor, the rice and pork shumai likewise, the traditional glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaves likewise). In fact, you need to add vinegar to practically everything. But the dumplings were still yummy (for a more detailed review, see my Yelp page):
Then Dave and I went to Pasadena City Hall where we took advantage of the failing light to try to take dramatic photos. Here are some of my attempts:
I like how the American flag is unfurling in the breeze –
The main tower of Pasadena City Hall –
I think this is sorta creepy-looking –
I love the color of the sky here –
Nice to see Carrie and Shelley. They both look exactly the same. What were their s.o.‘s like?
Nice pics; nice camera!
Thanks! I love the simplicity of my new camera. I thought long and hard over whether I should get one of the Canon Powershot A series, which unlike the SD (Elph) series I got has more manual options, such as aperture priority. But then I’d be going down the slippery slope of wanting more and more manual options to the point that I might as well get an <span class="caps">SLR</span>, which we already have. So my new camera is a good complement to our digital <span class="caps">SLR</span>, which Dave has gleefully claimed as his own.
Carrie’s boyfriend is from Texas and sounds like it. He has a good sense of humor and seems pretty techie (he works as an IT guy for a hedge fund company). He loves the weather in Seattle so far but he’s only been there for 2 months, so it remains to be seen what he makes of constant overcast.
Shelley’s boyfriend who she met through her boyfriend’s dental hygienist (random, huh?) is an accountant for <span class="caps">MTV</span>. He has a quirkier sense of humor and asked us to relate interesting or embarrassing stories about Shelley. He was also very curious about Pathfinder. His last name is Kwan, same as Jordan, and it turns out they lived in the same all-Christian apartment building one summer at <span class="caps">UCLA</span> and he was Jordan’s camp counselor at Chinese Bible Mission church in the Bay Area. It was really surreal. Jordan made the comment later that Chinese American Christians have 2 degrees of separation. Their families are from the same part of China too, though Jordan’s came one generation earlier. So they’re related.
Anyway! It was kind of a big group, 8 people total, so it was hard to talk to everyone in depth, but still interesting to meet their boyfriends.
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