You better like seafood ...

[rootbeer1]

A lazy weekend all around, with qbear mostly recovering from a brief illness last week. We did attend a wedding of one of Jack's co-workers Saturday,a big Chinese-American wedding in Oakland with a fancy wedding banquet afterwards:

Course 1: appetizers: slices of roasted pork, roasted baby squid, seaweed salad, jellyfish, barbecued pork
Course 2: shark's fin soup
Course 3: scallops, shrimp and calamari in a fried noodle nest
Course 4: crab cakes with crab claw
Course 5: pigeon
Course 6: mushrooms and broccoli in a dry scallop sauce
Course 7: lobster
Course 8: black bass
Course 9: fried rice with shrimp and pork
Course 10: wedding cake

All in all, the best food I have ever had at a wedding!* Although the beverages were limited to apple cider soda, green tea, Budweiser, and on each table, a big bottle of cognac.

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* OK, I would never order shark's fin soup in a restaurant. It's revolting, the way sharks are hunted for their fins and the rest just thrown back into the ocean.**

** OK, the way most seafood is caught is disgustingly wasteful. Knowing this, I still enjoyed the dinner.

Comments

[bookish-cub.livejournal.com]

sounds delicious!

[dacubsf.livejournal.com]

you'd think being born and raised in SF i'd like seafood. At that wedding I would have been loading up on Pork and budweiser.

[beeftenderloin.livejournal.com]

I would have been pretty full right after the crab cakes. The appetizers sounded really good, but I'm a little scared by the shark fin soup. Did each bowl have a big fin sticking out of it like Jaws? HeeHee!

[go-wade-in.livejournal.com]

if you didn't know it was sharks fin in the soup, you would never recognize it. the fins are cut into thin strips that have a firm, slightly rubbery texture. think very al dente angel hair pasta.

[abearius.livejournal.com]

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It does sound like a good banquet! Nice picture of you, too, Rock-o. :-)