shanghainese food, museums and picnics

twas a wonderful weekend. started out with meeting auntie linda with the whole family and the SO's. we all went for shanghainese food at Jade Dragon in Daly City (2368 Junipero Serra Blvd, Daly City, CA 94015) for some real authentic shanghainese food. they had things which are really hard to find elsewhere. being that my mom is shanghainese, i can appreciate authentic shanghainese stuff. we're talking pork shoulder, special types of vegetables which i don't even know an english name to. jon's best friend christine and hunny were also invited. we also met auntie linda's god son who will be starting bschool at stanford in the fall. right now he is an ibanker in NYC for UBS.

pork shoulder

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special fish head soup - sounds gross but it's really good!
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special shanghainese veggies
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hunny and i also went to the Stanford Cantor arts center to check out the artwork. they had Rodin sculptures (reminded hunny and i of our european trip wehre we saw the real sculptures) and various oil paintings from impressionist to contemporary artists. did you know that there were quite a few European major artists who were huge collectors of eastern art? i saw a few paintings with asian influence...quite interesting to see the resulting hybrids.

after the museum we had a picnic at the stanford oval. it was a gorgeous day watching all the volleyball players and just eating and napping in the grass under the sun. we could feel the warmth of the sun and the slight cool breeze...kids were scooting around on their razors all around us on the paved areas towards the center of the oval. all types of languages were being spoken by all the different people there...french, chinese and german were the ones i picked out. we also had a lot of fun spying on a couple that was studying there. there was a really really geeky looking guy who was studying with this cute girl. later we saw him put is arm around her so we assumed they were a couple. go geek boy! hahaha

later that day we went gymming and watched ucla beat indiana for the finals as we were on the cardio machines. go bruins!


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