A Leslie Wong Blog

The first day of summer is a little less than a month away, (June 21, 2009) but at my locale, Pacific Grove, California, the summer weather pattern seems to be here.

The current conditions in Pacific Grove.

I saw Tony Bourdain’s show where he was chowing down on soup dumplings at the Nanxiang Xiaolong Mantou Dian, a restaurant in Shanghai.

It made me hungry and reminded me of the time when my mom and I went to Shanghai.

My mom and my two aunts (her two sisters) made dumplings one night for twelve of us. It was a labor intensive process because there weren’t any dumpling wrappers from the store nor a Cuisinart to make the dough in 5 seconds. They kneaded the dough and then rolled it out into wrappers. The dumplings were perfect.

That’s what I thought of when I was walking by a freezer case at 99 Ranch and saw these Pork and Leek Mini Buns. My brain connected back to an event I could grasp. I also hoped these wouldn’t be dried out inside like the other ones I bought once. These were about one third the size of the ones my family made but they were juicy. I’d buy them again and not just for the memories.

The Onion reports, “Star Trek fans are decrying the latest film in the long running series, as a fun and watchable, action packed, thrill-ride.

‘Yes, it was exciting. But where was the heavy-handed message about tolerance, where was the stiff acting?’ ”

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