Bountiful harvest

I met Jean for lunch yesterday; I should have brought my book to read. We met in Chinatown at XO Kitchen. Every time I've gone I've ordered congee, and so decided I would branch out. As we ordered, uncertain of the size of things, we didn't realize how much food would actually appear.

We started with a seafood congee and pork wrapped in sticky rice. The congee is always good; the sticky rice was dry and lacking. Then a bowl of broad noodles with shrimp dumplings appeared, twice as big as I thought it might be. A plate of scallion pancakes appeared with a curry sauce. Then steamed watercress dumplings. Then steamed snow pea leaf dumplings. Then pan fried sticky rice cakes. Our table was covered.

When we received the bill it was almost thirty dollars; we had enough food for a second meal. We bagged it up and walked out into the cold rain, which was reason enough to stuff ourselves with starch.
Posted by eku at December 10, 2004 10:12 AM