2005 January

http://mavinfoundation.org

After logging into Evite to answer and invitation I decided to cruise the site and see what other events were happening locally. I stumbled upon a dinner the Mavin Foundation is hosting Feb. 10th – count me in. I'd love to meet some locals (Seattle, WA) that are interracially mixed or in a mixed relationship. Too bad Chris won't be in town to go with me. I'll just have to send him some pics – hopefully from a new HP iPAQ h6315 – I'm so close to getting it. We need new phones and this one has all the right bells and whistles in one piece of hardware. Our friend Allie has one and she loves hers. Hmmmmmmm, I think I just might have to drink some of the kool-aid. (as Chris would say)

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Chris and I had lunch with my Aunt Punon and Uncle Chai. Top Gun was the name of the restaurant, Dim Sum is the name of their game. Wow, it was wonderful – it was in Bellevue, WA near the Factoria square area. Not a fancy place at all but the food was exceptional. If you've never had dim sum let me describe it. It's kind of like lots of little plates of food to sample. A waitress rolls a cart from table to table and each cart has several items – so there are constantly carts coming by your table from the kitchen. Usually each plate has a serving of 3-4 pieces-which is perfect for two couples to sample. Here are a few of the items we had.

Steamed shrimp dumplings, b.b.q pork stuffed “bisquits, almond shrimp, clams with onion and green pepper, taro root and pork dumplings. Chinese broccoli came around on cart of exclusively veggies. My only suggestion is to stay away from the deep fried stuff – per my Aunt. The steamed items were awesome. If you can't eat all of it you may,of course, take it home for later. Yum, yum – dim sum!