Monday and It's Dim Sum With The Boys

Monday, April 25, 2016

Another Monday off work so it is Dim Sum again at the Seafood palace in Westminister. www.seafoodpalacerestaurant.com,. Five of us today. Glad to see Terry for the second Dim Sum in a row. 

We started out with a few items off the carts. White Fish Sui Mai which was different and quite good along with the Seaweed Wrapped Minced Shrimp.

Then came our complimentary bowl of  spicy sour soup. Today the soup had a real bite to it. Henry says the cooks used a lot of white pepper. Also a small plate of deep fried baby octopus. Crunchy and small taste of jalapeno. 

A dish with very large tender shrimp, bean sprouts and fat noodles. This had been dry stir fried. Excellent flavor. No leftovers here.

Since we have had the lobster the last few rimes we opted for crab today.  Cantonese style whole crab with ginger and chives. Crab was very sweet. Messy eating but worth the effort.

A shredded pork with garlic sauce was next. Very good flavor. Lots going for it today. No leftovers on the dish either.

Last dish before dessert was sauteed scallops with the house special sauce. Which means whatever the chefs threw together that day. Did not care it was excellent.

Dessert today was an egg, coconut, sugar, milk  concoction baked in pastry bun. Quite good and different from our usual egg tarts.

The wines today were exceptional. I brought a 2011 Clos Pepe HTC Chardonnay and a 2009 Sea Smoke Southing, Pinot Noir.  Both showing quite well. Chardonnay was perfect with all the seafood.

2008 Saxum,  Broken Stones, GSM,  can never go wrong with this wine. Excellent.

 2010 McKeon-Phillips BPR, Cabernet Sauvignon,. Good structure, well balanced.

2006 Denner, The Dirt Worshiper". Very "dirt" at the beginning but then really opened up and was an outstanding wine.

2007 P2, Brosseau Vineyards, Pinot Noir. I think we are all getting down to our last P2's. I had my last one a few weeks ago. Sorry to see Padrick close down but we have enjoyed his wines for the past years.

An exceptionaly good day today. Great wines, excellent food and very good company .

Mai the waitress gave all of us a a candy from Viet Nam. A cashew crunch type bar. No English on the label. It was very good. I will look for it when I am in one of the markets.