So today I went with some of my co-workers to LA's Chinatown and had Dim Sum for the first time. For those of you that haven't been to Dim Sum, it is quite an different dinning experience. A hostess shows you to your table and as you sit down you are pounced upon, by the servers/food pushers. Before I was even seated we had a vegetable dish, and some kind of deep fried shrimp creation on the table. Durning the first round of attacks by the food pushers there was no less then four carts of steaming hot food, that had everything from pastries with pork and shrimp to things that I could barely be identifed with my untrained eyes. The food pushers were sticking the plays of entrees in your face fast and furiously, while telling you you'd like it. Fortunately Yvonne and Eggman knew was to eat and what to let walk away. If you are a first timer to Dim Sum I highly recommend going with a pro, otherwise you'll have 800 dollars worth of food on your table before you know what hit you.

I decided that I'd start off this culinary adventure with a simple plan. I'd start with the foods I recognized and progress to dishes I couldn't quite identify and or would make my coworkers laugh. First round was a little bock choy and seaweed salad. Both of course were very good. I had a little bbq pork and short ribs, and then Eggman dropped the food bomb. He ordered the chicken feet. Well, when in rome right? So I tried me some chicken feet. I'm going to have to say not my favorite thing on the menu. The flavor was surprisingly good, but I just couldn't hang with the texture or having to contiunely tell myself that I wasn't eating chickens feet, when in fact I was. But hey I tried it right! However I did try something called porage, its a soup that is made from rice pork and green onions, it was absolutely delicious. Ed man stole the show when he ate the shrimp with spicy salt whole, in two bites, head, tail and everything inbetween. The man likes his shrimp, that is for sure, not to be out done the Left Handed Texan, followed suite.

So we got through most of our meal and it was time to get some desert, again Eggman was up to bat for ordering, and he choice sweet tofu. Its appearance left a little be desired. Mike said, "when something looks like that in the frige, I was taught, its time to throw it away." But I tried it anyway, It was good, I actually finished off the huge bowl that Eggman served me up. All in all a nice adventure in food.