Dim Sum

I love the "pillar" on the right corner of this house.

But this post is not about that pillar. But I don't have any pictures of Mr. Sayers' birthday brunch, so it will have to do. For Mr. Sayers' birthday, we went out for Dim Sum, which is, as far as I understand it, a Chinese lunch or brunch that's like tapas. The servers bring out carts full of little plates of food and you choose what you want to eat and you (in our case, 14 of us!) share it, by spinning a gigantic lazy susan. Mr. Sayers' brother said that Dim Sum is all about drinking loads of tea and trying little bites of everything. That's something that I can get behind.

What interesting food! And delicious food. Those were sometimes two separate categories: There were chicken feet and jellyfish and tripe; I tried them all! (The jellyfish were far crunchier than I expected.) And there were wide rice noodles that were amazing and rich egg custard quiches and loads of pastries stuffed with beets and beans and other sweet things.

When we were ordering little plates, they would stamp the table's card. We had no idea what the stamps meant, nor how much this was all going to cost. It was slightly scary (one of the other diners was so concerned that she came over and asked us what was going on). Upon receiving our bill at the end, we discovered that the price of the meal was so cheap that none of us believed it--we were all stuffed and couldn't eat another bit for something like $8.44  each.