Oh So Boring…

So MLK Day was a Day of Eating for ol’ Matt as I met up with the fine people of DonRockwell.com at New Kam Fong in Wheaton, MD.  What transpired was a feast of Cantonese food partaken by 17 adults and 8 kids in all.

I apologize that there aren’t any pictures, but, well, FOOOOOOD. However, I hope to below list the order of food with my impressions of it. The “names” of the dishes are what I can either glean from the menu or remember from my head. There is also a chance I’ve missed a dish, but I think I got them all. Now, the food:

1. Three BBQ Meats/Marinated Delight/Platter: A platter of mystery meats. Our guesses were roast pork, roast chicken, and intestine/stomach/something. All quite good and yummy.
2. Watercress with Clam Soup: A soup chock full of clams and watercress. The broth was very good as was the watercress. The clams? Well, I’m not the biggest fan, but I was told these were good.
3. ByBa Duck (aka Pipa Duck): Perhaps the best roasted duck I’ve ever had. So good.
4. Fried Sliced Fish, Salt and Pepper Style: Slices of a white fish, coated with a crispy breading and fried. The breading itself had salty, spicy kick to it. In fact, it was probably the hottest dish of the day, spice-wise. Served with some preserved anchovies and jalapenos.
5. Oyster with Ginger & Scallion Roast Pig in Casserole: The first casserole of the day. Again, not the biggest shellfish fan, but the oysters I tried were yummy. The best part of this dish were the onions at the bottom. They had absorbed all the sauce and flavor…mmm.
6. Sauteed Abalone with Chinese Vegetables and Chinese Mushrooms: I really liked the veggies (mustard greens?) and mushrooms. The abalone? Eh. Still not a fan of its weird texture.
7. Braised Eel with Roast Pig Garlic Sauce: This too was very good. One issue I had was that the eel was not boneless or bone-cut, but rather just chopped. The eel had great flavor, but the picking the meat from the bones (the many, many bones) was annoying. However, see that “garlic” up there? In this dish were the most flavorful garlic cloves ever. I kept picking them out, perhaps to the consternation of my tablemates.
8. Salted Fish, Diced Chicken, and Eggplant Casserole: A classic of Cantonese casseroles. I’m a big fan of all the ingredients, add them together and you get a happy Matt.
9. Sauteed Kingdom Mushroom, Braised Tofu, and Snow Pea Shoots: The final dish of the day was a “on the board” special. It’s about what it sounds like, except the mushrooms were…odd. I have *no* idea what species they are, but the whole mushroom must be enormous. The slices of mushrooms were bigger than an Ike dollar. Still, a very good dish.

All in all, an amazing feast. The cost, while not cheap, was still a great bargain for the variety of dishes. In fact, the whole meal per person was probably about the same cost as one order of that abalone dish. And the kids held their own, let me tell you. They had their own table with, while not all this food, not exactly just a few dishes.

Now? Now I’m going to sit like a bump on a log and try and digest the feast.

The People have spoken and the Word is Calvin Klein it appears:

My next question for you, the friendly masses, is what color to get? The frames above are the black version, but, I believe, they also come in gunmetal gray, blue, and satin brown.  If you’d like to see views of these colors, if I’m right, this is a link to the frames in question. If you select the colors down below the main picture changes to reflect your choice, so you get a good look.

I’m pretty sure I can’t pull off the blue ones, so those aren’t really on my radar. I suppose then the focus is on the brown frames.  Now, it’s hard to see in the pics I presented earlier, but the Guess frames are actually a brown/bronze/copper color, and Lady Optician of The Infinite Patience who helped me this morn seemed to think that the color suited my color better, and I think I agreed…but that could just be me agreeing with an expert.

Thus, I open the floor to the rest of my pool of experts. What say you?

Went to the eye doctor this morn, and that means it’s time to consider new frames.  As I’m hopeless at this, I thought I’d present some options I tried on today.  I apologize for the crappy photos but, well, it’s an iPhone in an optician’s mirror and fluorescent filled space.  The pics are after the cut!

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