I Suck At China Pearl

my friend (aimee) had organized a little get together for today. the theme for the get together was apparently... middle school. it has been twenty years since all of my friends and i graduated from middle school. yes... i am old.

apparently, aimee had recently been in contact with someone we had went to middle school with whom she had lost touch with. i assuming from there, aimee then thought it would be nice to reconnect with some of these fellow middle school alums. thus, she organized a little dim sum for today... the restaurant: china pearl.

now, i suck at china pearl. for anyone who knows me, i'm not a big fan of chinese food as it is. i'm also not a big fan of the china pearl in quincy because i think the food tastes worse than the chinese food that i normally don't like. so you can imagine how much i don't particularly like the china pearl. (there will be no "cue rachael ray's 'yum-o' sound" in this post.)

add to that... the fact that there's probably a good reason why my current friends and i lost touch with some of the middle school alums... and well, you can see... i wasn't really looking forward to this outing.

as it turns out, i actually had a decent time at dim sum. don't get me wrong, the quality of the food was still somewhat palatable at best. in fact, my friend's (garv) wife (leeann) apparently became sick after dim sum. coincidence? i think not. but i think one of the things that made dim sum fun today was the fact that none of the middle school alums who none of us keep in touch with that said they were going... came. not one of them... nada... zip... zippo.

there's probably a term for saying you're going to go somewhere you're invited to... and then not showing and not calling to notify the organizer that you are not going to be there. i can't think of the word at the moment, but the word could perhaps sound like "dumbass"... and i should know, because i have done it many times.

so... dim sum today was basically my normal circle of friends: aimee (and her family), garv, leeann, cass, ellen, marc, amy (the czar), and myself. incidentally, we ran into my friend (nhut/andy) as we were going in to dim sum. it was very funny. nhut (aka andy) was with his two young nephews. as nhut said hi to all of us, one of his nephews pointed at him with amazement and exclaimed "you do have a secret life, uncle andy!" it was cute.

(pictured below is cass and marc.)


interesting tidbit that i learned today: the china pearl was actually requested to be the reception area for garv and leeann's wedding. apparently, garv's parents are big fans of the place. who knew? thankfully, garv and leeann went with some other venue for the reception.

anyway, (all things considered) i had a good time at dim sum today. as usual... it was fun to simply hang out with my friends.