Dinner with family

Spending time with baba and sister eatting dinner! So far the duck has arrived but auntie is no where to be found. Sister is reading the menu looking for food to eat!

Eventually auntie arrives and we can eat! :-)

Surprise Yankee's Game

Mid day maggie's sister rings my phone, I'm thinking she wants my wife for some girl talk - when all of a sudden I hear the words "Yankee's tickets" in broken english!

I thought - okay I had plans for the beach, but Yankee tickets are sooo much better! As I was thinking about how to ask my boss for an early exit from work - thunder, lightning and dark rain clowds poured endlessly. Would we be rained out? As I waited for the end of the workday the clowds parted as I ran out of long island zipping to the train station to meet my wife and family!

Here we are sitting in our Yankee seats enjoying the beginning of what I hope will be a glorious Yankee victory!

Weekend strawberry picking

We went to the church strawberry festival which had glorified store bought berries. Soooo, we went to "garden of Eden" which is an organic farm near river head. ;-)

Weekend at moms

Just got to moms with my cute wife for fathers day. My brother joe is smoking brisket and my step dad is really happy with his fathers day gift of grey goose vodka. Its going to be a good weekend!

A Taste of Shanghai Restaurant : 6/5/2012


My co-worker jason is a part owner of this restaurant in Flushing. Every week my father-in-law decides which restaurant to go visit and this week was my friends. 


The woman next to me is My wife's sister, (Not by blood, but by close family friendship) She treats my wife like family - shopping, spending time together and partaking in family gatherings like this one.


 the man with his head down eating is my father-in-law. He jokes often, smiles frequently and always looks at people with half his eyes closed. 


I call him " BaBa " which means father in Chinese. He loves stinky tofu and it seems fish.


The woman opposite me is my wife's aunt, they are all very sweet to me and accepting that I am a foreigner. (to them, to me THEY are the foreigner :)  ) 


As for the food - the tiny shrimp were good, the string beans were amazing, the noodles were very good and the plate of shrimp was completely unflavored. The cold chcicken was so-so and the shrimp fried rice was also so-so.


Lets see where we end up next week!




-Rich