Chinese New Years in Paris

Saturday night we went out to celebrate one of our friend's Birthday. She actually celebrates for an entire month, but that's for another post. We all met at a Chinese restaurant hidden away over in the 12th. It was our first time to have Chinese food since we left Austin last summer.

It also happened to be Chinese New Years, and the placed was packed.

There were 12 of us, and I can't believe how much I ate (and drank ). Plates of food slowly trickled out of the kitchen, giving us plenty of time to enjoy them. The mostly Asian crowd was getting wilder and wilder as the evening progressed. And the guest of honor is an Aussie, which of course means that we were also gettting wilder and wilder.

We ate and drank for 4 hours:

• celery and calimari salad
• beef and pepper salad
• pancakes filled with porc and vegtables with a yummy sauce
• steamed dumplings
• shrimp stir fried with peas
• lamb with whole cumin seeds
• sweet and sour chicken
• a really spicey soup/stew thing

I think the waiter developed carpal tunnel syndrome from opening so many bottles of wine.

Dinner was really good, we will definitely go back there. And true to their form, our friends had everyone over to their apartment after dinner, where we polished off plenty of champagne.

All in all, a very nice night. We even met some new people, which is good for us. It can be a little isolating here away from all our Austin friends, so meeting fun people definitely helps that.