NBC Seafood plus Fiorelli Pizza

NBC Seafood

plus Fiorelli Pizza

Found out later this was a big (80 people?) birthday party.

Wu gok (deep fried taro ball).

Pork jook. I prefer the pei dan version. This at least had long strips of pork meat.

Carts making it to the veeeerrrryyy back room we were sitting in.

Pork blood FTW.

More carts. Tea.

Tea.

Carts, part 3.

The spread arrived quickly.

Ngau paak yip (steamed ginger beef tripe).

Gai lan. Touch overcooked.

Pai gut was ugly but tasty.

Har cheug fun - skin too thick, poor presentation, but tasty enough.

Sue, Ophelia, and Christine chatting away.

Char siu bao were a bit plain.

Gow chow gow were plump but not the most flavorful.

Deep fried shrimp ball could have been served hotter. Otherwise they looked the part.

Deep fried fish tasted weird.

Main dining room was packed at 12:30pm.

Pokemon Oreos.

Ophelia just beat Sue in Dune: Imperium.

Kale and sausage from Fiorelli Pizza. Not good.

Pepperoni was excellent, a tad spicy.

Someone hamming it up for the camera.

And now up past her bedtime.

Solid round of dim sum at NBC Seafood with Sue, Ophelia, Christine, and Nick. Nothing spectacular, but as befits one of the most consistently popular dim sum restaurants around, almost everything was solid, from the pork blood to the har gow to the wu gok to the lo bac guo to the ngau paak yip. Not everything is great of course, with the har cheung fun and the deep fried shrimp ball being particularly middling, but that's okay. I would definitely skip the deep fried sardines, tho.

Board games after, with a round of Dune: Imperium taking up most of the afternoon before 4M came over. Had a close finish in Dune: Imperium (Ophelia juuust pulled off the win), then had Fiorelli Pizza delivered for dinner. The kale and sausage was a serious meh, but the pepperoni was solid (even a tad spicy, thankfully the kids did not complain) with a nice thin-but-not-too-thin crust. Sizing, they are 12 inch pizzas, so a bit big for one person of average appetite, yet a bit too small to share. Three plus an ample amount of leftover dim sum fed five adults and two kids with just a few leftovers. The spicy cucumber/yogurt thing was kind of weird, would skip that in the future. And of course, a Happy Belated Birthday to Matt!