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Today was a day that will go down in history.
Not all because me and Zhu visited a David Milne Water Colours exhibition as well as a Frank Gehry Architecture exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario. ( They were both great by the way. Though I must say I was more fascinated and impressed with Frank Gehry's work. He's the architect who brought architectural wonders such as the Guganheim Museum in New York City and the Disney Concert Hall in whereever. Very fascinating. For an old guy his brain is sure tick ticking away damn well).
The miracle of the day took place over lunch.
We went down to Asian Legend, this chinese restaurant in chinatown which is just round the corner from the art gallery, for a lunch break after having viewed the David Milne collection. We were there to accomplish the mission of having shi zi tou (@ lion's head @ GIANT MEATBALLS)
So being the gluttons and poor estimators that we are we decided to order, one shi zi tou, a combo set each ( consists of one bowl of rice, one bowl of soup, one main dish and one cold drink) and siew mai ( 6 pieces).
The race began at a relatively easy and relaxed pace with soup and drink arriving first. Then came the main dishes for the combo lunch. Mind you, we're not talking miniscule portions here, we're talking actual main dish sizes, so it's no joke finishing that off. so we started eating that which was really nice and delicious (hey, ur talkin to someone who hasn't had an authentic chinese meal for the mast 6 months or so ) Then the waiter advanced towards as with this large black claypot complete with its own little bunsen burner thingy and placed it in the center of our already overflowing table for 2.
This was the legendary shi zi tou.
We opened it gingerly and there stewing merrily and mocking us with their brown braised skins were 3 humongous meatballs. I mean it. I've had shi zi tou before and I've never seen ones as huge as these. They were the size of a 12 year old's fist. We closed the cover and stared at each other and the still festering combo lunch remains in front of us.
Before we had time to plan a strategy, the waiter came with our ratten box of siew mai....
Man...it was like the day of reckoning.
Don't get me wrong. It was all good stuff. Nice, excellently cooked and tasted great. It's just the sheer amount of food on the table. Pple were walking past our table staring at our avalanche of food and the two of us. And definitely at the mysterious black pot in the center of all the mayhem.
yup, so we went all out!
First to clear the finishin line for the combo lunch was Zhu, impressively finishing 3 quarters of her chi ding (diced chicken in spicy sauce) and began hacking away at her alloted ball of meat. I was tailing behind on my shredded pork with garlic and chili, trying to juggle my resources between siew mai, pork, and meat ball. After a while, I was done with my pork, and that was when zhu decided to throw in the white flag on her alloted siew mai. So I had the additional burden of completing another 2 siew mai in addition to the three i had just squeezed through my long suffering gullet.
Man...but those shi zi tou were fantastic. Very nice gravy to go with it. Not too fattty and not too oily, nice and succulent and not dry. It was als fun drenching them in gravy as we had 5 minute time out breaks in between.
Well...all that I have to say is that....the fact that i'm sitting here typin this is that my gullet didn't perforate, my stomach didn't burst and that my intestine are more or less still working after having to put up with the assault they were under this afternooon.
WElll...that's my exciting 4th day here...
I'm off now.
U guys could have heard more from me but Zhu has just put on gibberish to play on the comp. Yes...need I spell it clearer ? Garnet crow...............
Arrrgh..................I can feel the creativity being sucked dry by the senseless noise that is pervading the room.....
Somebody save me.....
I'd rather wolf down 2 bowls of shi zi tou....
oyasumi~!