The Adventures of Stuart
Before I tell you all who Stuart is, I’d just like to say that the one downside to the holiday season is having to navigate shopping malls 8 days before Christmas.
Also, Jude Law is soooo nice on the eyes, oh my gooooodness.
Okay.
So this morning, Olivia’s father took us out to a brunch of dim sum at Mark’s Duck House in Arlington! However, being a vegetarian, that limited me to a grand total of two selections, so I did something that I feel slightly guilty about/slightly devious about: I made an exception for seafood.
We ordered too many dishes to count (I want to say, around 15 for three people) and I sort of forgot to take pictures after a while, so I duly apologize. I’m a bad blogger.
I didn’t pay too much attention to the meaty dishes, but I want to say from L to R, that’s some pork dish, fried chicken feet, gelatinous balls with shredded bamboo shoots, something I don’t know, and steamed shrimp and scallion dumplings.
And then we brought out some Chinese broccoli covered in brown sauce.
Some of the unpictured dishes included:
- Chinese broccoli in gelatinous wrapping
- crab meat steamed dumplings
- baby mussels
- fried sesame balls
and more dumplings and other goodies galore, but my brain has seriously fizzled out since the semester ended so the amount of thinking I’ve done comes to close to nada.
Afterwards, since Olivia’s dad is a big thrift store shopper, we went through a few thrift shops and hit the jackpot with this baby:
Everyone, meet Stuart the Eastern Turkish wiseman.
He’s super cute and cracks me up every time I see him, and I simply couldn’t leave the store without buying him…
So 53 cents later,
We walked out with this cutie-patootie and promptly named him Stuart.
Stuart enjoying his first evergreen
Stuart chilling at Home Depot
Stuart being welcomed home
Olivia then went to the mall for some shopping (helloooo sweaters!) and bravely elbowed our way through the masses of late holiday shoppers, and ended up seeing Sherlock Holmes: 2.
I think like the first movie, it started out really slowly and uninterestingly, but then picked up accordingly.
Plus, Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law definitely don’t hurt on the eyes. *whistles* They make any movie worth it, am I right?
And Stuart joining us for dinner!
My godmother made a homecooked meal with counterclockwise from the top: steamed white fish with chili sauce and napa cabbage, marinated yuba with lima beans and celery, and then the leftover bhel puri from Thursday.
No matter what anyone tells you, nothing beats a homecooked meal.
And now Stuart wishes you all a pleasant evening and a good night!
