Chinese Dinner

Saturday, October 27, 2007

After a long hiatus, due to Henry's wife Evan having back surgery, we returned to our favorite Chinese restaurant "Duong Son" in the Little Saigon area of Westminister. There were 8 of us tonight and two were newcomers to the scene. This dinner was bittersweet. Cora who finally started to get her taste buds back after her neck surgery and enjoy what life has to offer will have to go through another round of chemo & treatment. They found another mass in the area where she had her mastectomy a few years ago. But on top of that, treatment cannot begin until after she has surgery on her shoulder which has a large tear that needs to be repaired. It makes you wonder about the luck of the draw. Time to get out the offerings to the gods.

Henry always does the ordering. I kept a list of the wines but did not write down all the dishes that we had. We had salt & pepper calamari, lettuce wraps, garlic green beans with white sea bass, shrimp with chinese broccoli, crab with soft noodles, barbecued pork ribs, and for the life of me I cannot remember the other dishes. Senility is starting to rear its ugly head I think.

The wines tonight were all outstanding except for some mango wine which we all agreed needed ice cubes and vodka to enhance it.

The wines we had were as follows and there was very little left at the end of the evening.

2001 Poggio Le Coste Barbaresco
2006 Oyster Bay Chardonnay
2002 McKeon-Phillips Nebiollo Reserve
2002 Sanford, Sanford & Benedict Vineyard, Pinot Noir
2000 BV, Rutherford Cabernet
2006 Pine Ridge, Clarksburg, Chenin Blanc/Viognier
2004 Nickel & Nickel, Branding Iron, Cabernet
2005 Alma Rosa, Chardonnay
2004 Chateauneuf de Pape
NV Pierrer Joulet , Champagne
Procesco Inloudo

I think there was another wine but I was writing the list on a napkin and I cannot read what I wrote. (senility again) And the napkin is falling apart.

Hope we can get another dinner together before the end of the year. We try to do these every two months. With the holidays it gets very busy and I will be away for 10 days in December. Taking a trip to the wine country around Sonoma. That I will take copious notes on.