Surf City Half Marathon + The Dim Sum Co. and ComeBuyTEA

Surf City Half Marathon

plus post-race fooding

Post-Surf City Half Marathon selfie.

The Dim Sum Co., located at My Thuan Market.

They are to-go only.

The spread, so gloriously displayed in the parking lot.

Shu mai are not bad.

Skins on har cheung fun way too thick and fragile.

Har gow, like the shu mai, pretty good.

Pai gut kind of missing the flavor..

Ngau paak yip (beef tripe) was good.

Lo bac guo were massive yet poorly seasoned.

The Dim Sum Co., located at My Thuan Market.

ComeBuyTEA at Bella Terra in Huntington Beach.

No seating at all inside, but otherwise quite stylish. Menu.

Menu.

Fresh tea grinders and powered steepers?

Their fancy machines.

Jasmine green tea with brown sugar boba, 50% sweet.

Surf City Half Marathon + Longboard Legacy + Beach Cities Challenge swag.

Surf City Half Marathon legacy club.

Surf City Half Marathon t-shirt and bib.

Surf City Half Marathon finisher's medal.

2025 Beach Cities Challenge medal.

Close-up.

Surf City Half Marathon completed, always nice to race with the Lee family. Nice and slow for me given I was getting over a cold (2:44:12 GPS at 12:27/mile, 2:45:53 chip at 12:39/mile) which actually dovetailed nicely with Mike and Allison's plans. Their kids as usual smoked the adults, but that's not news. *grins*

Made it over to The Dim Sum Co. in Westminster afterwards for lunch; co-located inside My Thuan Market, they are take-out only now and a tad cheaper than a proper restaurant. Two-thirds of the dishes were average to pretty good, with the ngau paak yiip (ginger scallion beef tripe) being particularly good, the other one-third were a definite miss. Lo bac guo (pan fried turnip cake) were too thick and decidedly lacking in flavor, the pai gut (pork spareribs) were also mostly lacking in seasoning.

ComeBuyTEA at Bella Terra in Huntington Beach was the last stop of the day; this location has more style than their Seattle (Capitol Hill) location but also less (as in zero) seats. The jasmine green milk tea with brown sugar boba also lacked the artificial flavor of the drink I had in Seattle, and at 50% sweet, was actually pretty good.