Chinatown Dimsum Adventure: Third in a Series

The monkey's middle game was in shape. Use the texture of the jellyfish as a base to replace rice. Rice is beautiful, but eating too much of it will cause diabetes in later life. Use a dab of red chili sauce to increase the spiciness of the jellyfish. Then, use the Chinese broccoli as a second base to wash out the taste of the food. Here is the monkey's strategy:

Jellyfish with red chili. A morsel of lechon. Some broccoli. Sip tea or diet coke to cleanse the pallet.

Jellyfish with red chili. A bite from some shrimp balls with red chili. Skip the broccoli because of the burning sensation. Sip tea to put out the fire in the mouth.

Jellyfish with sligtly less red chili paste. An inch of fried eggplants. Exquisite texture in the mouth. A little taste of the "taoshubao" or porkbun. A sip of diet coke.

The monkey ate with consistency as the tiger splurged. The tiger's eyes could not concentrate on the food because there was so much. Tigers being tigers, pretty soon, the mouth could not keep up with the eye. The tiger tried to pace herself, but the monkey was more experienced and had more meals. The tiger soon became sleepy. But the tiger still had not eaten the desserts! That situation was quickly rectified however. Pretty soon, the tiger was lapping up taho from the porcelain-like spoons. Next to fall was the doughy dessert. Black bean squirted out from the ball as the tiger's jaws clamped onto the ball of dough. Dribbles of black bean came out from the ball.

As the tiger slowed down, more foodservers came to the table. Apparently the foodservers must have been talking about the monkey and tiger.

"Do you want a quick sale? Go to table number 43. A monkey and a tiger are eating their hearts out. They will buy anything!"

Fortunately, the monkey and tiger had ordered enough food in the first fifteen minutes so that their table was filled to the brim. The other families eating usually ordered one dish at a time. Probably to savor the flavor. But the tiger and monkey were not bound by cultural norms. Hahahha. The monkey and tiger scoff at cultural norms! We order and eat dessert first! Who wants banana? Who wants jelly doughnut Third Kingdom style!?

The end game was left to the monkey. The jellyfish was finished and so was the shrimp balls. The porkbuns had to go too, but too much bread means too much carbohydrates. The eggplant and the roasted pork will be to go. The brocolli too. Two of the jelly doughnuts Third Kingdom style will also be to go. But the rest of the food went into the monkey's belly.

BURP!!!

Please excuse the monkey and the tiger.