When your friend’s parents are visiting from Guatemala, why not take them out for an absurd amount of American Chinese food? Spending $450+ on dim sum is normal for a Wednesday night…right?
For expectation management, we were a group of fourteen, so it wasn’t totally ridiculous. Just normal ridiculous.
I’m not typically a fan of venturing to Aksarben Village, mainly because I have become a snob about business development since moving here and I don’t like all these modern areas popping up. I’m all about the renovation and restoration projects; it’s become one of my favorite topics to debate.
Anyways, so we went to Gold Mountain in Aksarben (Nebraska spelled backwards) and had the back room reserved for our large group. It was a little cramped and a little awkward for those sitting next to the door, but overall, it was nice to be separated from the main dining area.
We decided to dine family style (aww shucks) and delegated two of our friends to place the dim sum order. If you’re not familiar with dim sum, it essentially means ordering a bunch of small plates of food to be shared by the group. In our case, “a bunch” translated to nearly 100 plates. I wish I was kidding, but I’m not…
Unfortunately, for my friend Nick and I, we ended up seated near the door and since the waitress couldn’t get around the table, she would pass everything to us to be handed out. That got old fast, but was pretty comical too. It was a lot to keep up with! We were dishing out plates left and right while trying not to knock over pots of hot tea. THE STRESS WAS REAL.
There were crab rangoon, egg rolls, lemon pancit, beef noodles, steamed buns, shrimp balls, bbq pork in rice wraps, white/fried rice, turnip cakes, and the list goes on. The plates kept on coming! We actually got so full that we asked them to cancel the rest of the order, but it was too late, it was already being prepared.
Oh darn, you mean more delicious food is on the way and we can’t stop it?
The amount of to-go boxes we had was almost as embarrassing as watching us trying to get in formation for a group photo. “Get the box of fortune cookies out of the way…Leah, you stained your shirt so stand like this to hide it…now we can’t see this guy on the left…what the heck is on the TV behind us, turn that off!”
This dysfunction is what I love most about this group – never a dull moment! If you’re feeling hungry for some dim sum, check out Gold Mountain!
-Leah
PS – my fortune cookie said, “don’t worry about the stock market, you have already made a great investment.” This got deep REAL quick, but I don’t hate it!