Sourdough and Dim Sum, but not at the same meal...

[Jennifer Piersol]

--- In HP4GU-California at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince
Winston)" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> --- In HP4GU-California at yahoogroups.com, SHENmagic at a... wrote:
> > 
> > On the other hand, Long Beach and LA are just a few hours from San 
> > Diego....and I know some great Dim Sum here in San Diego.
> > Ayleyaell
> 
> I know some great Dim Sum in Los Angeles's Chinatown (not far from my
> job). Empress Pavilion may be the best, Ocean Seafood is very good and
> my sentimental favorite, and some people like ABC Seafood better than
> Ocean Seafood ... They're *very* crowded on weekends, but not so
> crowded on weekdays ... Lee and Barry no longer drive all the way
> Downtown and endure the crowd, now that there is an adequate dim sum
> restaurant in their neighborhood ... but they *do* drive to San Pedro
> for this Moroccan restaurant they discovered, which seems to be better
> than Das Maghreb ...

That is so weird.  Okay, not all of it, but the "ABC Seafood".  My dim
sum experience is in Monterey Park at "NBC Seafood" (at least, that's
what my hubby remembers as the name...).  Very good... VERY crowded. 
Long long wait, but definitely worth it.  However, patronage is almost
exclusively Chinese (by that, I mean Cantonese - we went with 2
Cantonese-Americans, 1 Cantonese guy, and 1 Mandarin girl, who was at
an almost total loss when it came to ordering, so we had the Cantonese
guy order for us), so I spent the entire meal trying to look
inconspicuous, which is very hard when you're 1 of only 3 white people
(and all of them were at our table) in the whole restaurant.  Took us
3 hours to finish that meal.  What a great time!

My hubby's family is over for the weekend, so I'm using the
pre-decent-weekend-awakening-time to send this off.  Gonna have a busy
day.  Hope everyone has a great first weekend of fall!  Me?  It's
gonna be 98 degrees here today (average for today is 89), so I'm
pretty bummed.  It's fall, dammit!  When are those darn temperatures
going to FALL?!?

-cranky Jen