Dinner with Jun and Jialin

My Chinese friend Jun invited us over for dinner with her husband Jailin and another couple/classmates for authentic Chinese food. Now this was one elaborate dinner. In China, you start with cold dishes:

Jellyfish (Raw! I tried it...very chewy...)

Bamboo Chutes (A little spicy. I liked it.)

And then we had an appetizer:

Mini Buns with Pork (NOT the same as dumplings or wontons because they have liquid in them. You have to bite a little hole in it and suck out the juice first.)

Then Jailin made 6 hot dishes for us. The way it works apparently is that he stays in the kitchen alone and brings em out when they're ready. He doesn't eat until the end. He made a spicy beef dish, Tokyo bomb (seafood over a rice cake), coddle fish, spicy catfish, cooked vegetables, amd tofu noodle thing. Those aren't necessarily what they called the dishes, but I really didn't know what some of it was.

And then we had a rice bun dessert. They were these little rice dumpling-ish ball things that had sweet paste in the middle.

Me & Jun

Chef Jailin

The Rest of the Group

Chinese Beer

Tea

And a little action:

It's your birthday...Linz

Doggie Jay Care

We have a house guest this weekend:


My parents were going to take Oscar to Doggie Day Care this weekend while they're gone, but I thought he should come to Doggie Jay Care instead since Jay and Oscar love each other so.

For those who don't know Oscar, he's four pounds of attitude. But I think we're having fun. We go outside:

We gave him a bath:

He's been relatively polite to the neighbors. He sleeps with us under the covers. He sits on my lap pretty much regardless of what I'm doing. But he'll go home tomorrow, and I think he'll be glad to see his person (ie the Giga).

I should add that Oscar might be the dumbest dog ever (you know it's true mother). For example, Jay moved a chair right by the bed so he could get in himself and tried to train him to jump onto it first...disaster.

Sweets

So after looking at pictures I've realized I need to get back on my eating routine. I definitely took a break for a while. Linz and I are horrible accountability partners. Especially Linz's weakness for ice-cream, chocolate, starbucks, baileys, pretty much anything sweet.

So last week before we left for the Panhandle - I was on the treadmill 4 days straight and I'm back on my eating schedule too.

J