Since I was so excited about
what I did on Monday (i.e., purchased an iPhone), I already posted that news.
So here’s the other interesting part of the day . . . food!
Dinner Monday evening was at
Crystal Jade, a restaurant I found online that happened to be in the same area
as Din Tai Fung (see previous post). This place seemed to attract more locals
than foreigners, which was nice. I had a pot of green tea and dined on braised
bamboo shoots and vegetables with rice noodles.
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| The ambience. :) |
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| My dinner. The tan-colored bits are the bamboo shoots. The black shriveled bits are wooden ear mushrooms. The orange bits are carrots. Pretty good stuff. |
For dessert, I ordered three
glutinous rice balls with sesame paste filling. I know that probably does
not sound very appetizing, but don’t knock it until you’ve tried it. The
combination of flavors and textures (especially the textures!) was something I
had never experienced. The outer part, the glutinous rice, had a nutty taste
and was very soft. The texture was like biting into ball of finely processed
and slightly sticky flour. The sesame paste had a different nutty flavor and
added the texture of an oily natural peanut butter—viscous with some grit, and
not too sweet. I would go back again just to get that dessert.
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| Glutinous rice dessert. |
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| Can't you just taste the sesame paste? |
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| More ambience--the lamp over my table. |
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