Word of the Day: Succulent

I love to simply read about food. I could spend hours poring over recipe books, especially ones with amazing pictures of food! I was standing in Costco the other day (shopping with my mom) exclaiming over the Williams-Sonoma: Essentials of Baking. I want this book!

Reading descriptions of food is quite therapeutic! I was browsing through baby back rib recipes, and I just got hungrier and hungrier! I’m caught by words like “ZESTY”, “marinated”, “pUnGent”, “falling-off-the-bone TENDER”, “slow-cooked”, “siMMered”, “sLATHERED with bbq sauce”- I can keep going on and on. Food words are a hobby .

I’m suppose to continue the series on reviewing restaurants we’ve been to, and next is Jade Garden. We bussed downtown Chinatown for dim sum on Naader’s birthday! It was a lot of fun. Dim sum is not just about the food, it’s an experience! (Though the food is quite good too!) With such a large group, we were able to try a lot of different dishes. The most popular, as usual, are the shrimp dumplings, bbq buns, shumai, and, my personal favorite, chicken feet! And of course, dim sum isn’t dim sum without tea. We had the chrysanthemum tea, and it was quite good, though some still preferred the regular jasmine tea. I had lots of fun ordering dishes for everyone to try! (I’m kinda bossy like that )

All in all, I didn’t consider Jade Garden to be an extraordinary dim sum place. It had the usual dishes, and service was fast. However, the restaurant was VERY crowded during lunch on Saturday, so I would advise making reservations, unless you want to wait 30 minutes for a table! The prices were reasonable, and for a group of 8, we each ended up pitching in 6 or 7 bucks. Since I don’t know any other dim sum restaurants in Seattle, I’ll probably end up going to Jade Garden again when I’m craving dim sum!

Restaurant Score (based on the purely subjective Shu-and-Lydia scale!): 7.5

Coming up next: Mama Melina’s: a quaint retreat to Italy!