NBC Seafood, Half and Half, Lonzo's Peruvian

Fooding

plus board games

Jian dui - black sesame filled glutinous rice balls.

Wu gok - deep fried taro balls. Who needs arteries?

NBC Seafood if you want carts.

The deep-fried cart.

Deep fried shrimp balls.

The spread, round two.

Ngao yuk, steamed beef ball.

Ngau paak yip, steamed ginger beef tripe. This one was tastier than it looked.

Har gow. Skins nice and thin, taste was good.

Pineapple buns in the USA are weird, they're almost all filled inside with a sugarly sweet center as opposed to being just dough.

Contemplating their food.

Half and Half afterwards for more sugar.

I cannot remember what game this is for the life of me. It was pretty fun but lightweight.

Quacks of Quedlinburg.

Yay for a winning pot.

Project L was a little like Tetris but also not. Seemed lightweight but had an unexpected amount of strategy near the end.

Menu at Lonzo's Peruvian.

Fisherman ceviche is always good here.

Beef heart was delicious.

Lomo saltado was okay, everything about it but the sauce was good-- sauce was too salty.

Close-up.

Picante di mariscos, I think?

Branzino was meh.

Arroz con mariscos was mushy. Overall entrees here were a miss.

The har gow at NBC Seafood were unusually well crafted today, with translucent skins and about the right number of folds. Filling was only okay but hard to complain too much. Rest of the food was solid at best, no complaints aside from the won-ton-skin-style deep fried shrimp ball, which were distinctly inferior to the better shrimp ball that comes on a sugarcane stick.

Usual stop at Half and Half for milk tea, which is always good-- and their summer promotion, a free upsize to large, is still going (woohoo!). Played some board games after, Project L was Tetris-inspired and seemingly light, but had an unexpected bit of strategy and focus near the end. Quacks of Quedlinburg is always fun, and then we had a third game whose name I can't remember for the life of me that wasn't bad.

Dinner at Lonzo's Restaurant and Bakery. Peruvian food here is uneven, the appetizers, including fisherman's ceviche and the beef heart, are all excellent. The entrees were all varying levels of disappointing, with an overly salty sauce in the lomo saltado to the so-so arroz con mariscos. The branzino was just not very interesting. Great start but disappointing ending.