brain fuzz

friday night was having dinner at the burmese restaurant on e7th between 2nd and 3rd ave with nels, aub, and baabs. baabs is getting ready to move to florida for her husband's work. she was talking about all the great, diverse ethnic foods that she would be missing once she moved to gainesville.

when she mentioned dim sum, i suggested that we all go on sunday. so i offered to organize a group to go on sunday. dim sum is best enjoyed with chinese friends and adventurous eaters. so i sent a quick email out inviting Q2, tchan, R, debs, cantongirl, george, nels, k, baabs, and her hubby for dim sum on sunday. tchan had suggested dim sum go go and while their food is tasty, i feel like without the carts being pushed around, loud chinese eaters, and rude waiters, it's just not dim sum.

so sunday a little after noon, nels and i arrive at golden bridge. we were running a bit late and were suprised to see that we were the first to arrive there. i called R and asked him where he was. he said the second floor but he was no where to be seen. nels called baabs and went downstairs to look for them. right about then, R and i realized we had mixed up restaurants.

i had emailed everyone to meet at golden unicorn!!! while i like the food at golden bridge much better, everyone was already planning to meet at golden unicorn. of course, i was horribly embarrassed but nels reassured me it was fine and we hustled to get to golden unicorn. . luckily they are only 3 or 4 blocks away from one another.

R called and said he was there and on the 2nd floor and would ask for a table. when nels and i arrived at golden unicorn, baabs and her hubby were waiting in the lobby. we took the elevator to the 2nd floor and since i didn't see R i went ahead and got a table.

i called R back and told him we already got a table on the 2nd floor and to look for us. when he didn't come, i called him again and realized that he had gone to golden bridge to meet us!!! i felt terrible and after apologizing profusely asked him to come back to golden unicorn. we started to order some food and when R finally came, i put a few items on his dish. . .i could tell he was a bit peeved but by the time he got a few pieces of shumai and dumplings in, he was his usual happy go lucky self.

Q2 and tchan arrived shortly after R. we stayed for an hour and a half, enjoying a relaxing dim sum and chatting. i still think golden bridge is the best dim sum place i've been to in c-town. . think i'll have to start exploring flushing's chinatown.

after dim sum, R, nels and i walked to union square, stopping at a shoe store and beard papa on the way there. nels headed to campus to do some lab work and R and i went to whole foods and trader joes. spent the rest of the afternoon doing some work, catching up on phone calls and cooking sweet & sour soup.