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: