Sao Lao

Last Sunday I was still too sick to be walking around Rotterdam. I wanted to send money to Laos so Johan took me to the Money Gram agent at Rotterdam Centraal station. This is the second time that I used the service of Money Gram because it is easier than going to Western Union. I normally use the service of Western Union at the post office but the worker there has to enter all the information each time. Western Union has a new policy in place for several months now that you can only pick up the money in Laos in Lao currency. You can’t sent money online either, not from the Netherlands anyway to Laos.

With Money Gram, you can take out the money in either Kip or Dollar. They would charge you one dollar to have the money in US currency. This time Aunt Kian went half and half, taking half in Kip and half in Dollar amount. Some Money Gram agents in Vientiane even open till 23:00 hour on Sunday. That is 11:00 PM.

Since I had a few minutes before the Chinese grocery store closed I decided to make a quick stop and bought ingredients for making Lao bamboo shoots soup. Having post a picture at Laovoices.com of bamboo soup, I was having a craving for it. Afterward I took Johan to my favorite Dim Sum and Noodle restaurant for dinner.

I shared the 8 pices dim sum with Johan. For the individual dim sum, he ordered something with meat and mushroom while I went for squid in spicy sauce.

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I thought it was kind of funny when Johan took me out to dinner and forgot what time he has reserved a table. We thought we had an hour left to spare so we walked to Dudok for a slice of apple pie. Dudok is located in Rotterdam and is famous for the best apple pie in NL. I’m not an apple pie fan but I ate a slice with a cup of green tea. Afterward we went for our favorite Chinese restaurant for Dim Sum Menu.

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My date surprised me with one dozen roses on Friday night when he picked me up for dinner at my favorite Chinese restaurant. He also gave me a card but I am not going to tell you what was written on it. I don’t kiss and tell you know.

What does red rose mean? Hmm….

Sample pics of the Dim Sum Menu

A walk after dinner. Bad idea to take pictures after a full meal.

A more natural happy me.

It was about two years ago when I tried Dim Sum. Now I can say I enjoy going to a Chinese restaurant and order a dim sum menu. After all those years of tasting different type of Chinese dishes, I can say I prefer various dim sum treats, especially the sea food ones.

The menu starts with this:

Follows with this delicious sea food treats:

Then continues with springrolls and something else:

More of sea food treats:

If you’re not full yet, then this fried noodles will help you to the finish line:

Still hungry? How about these?

I think I’m full now but how can I say no to delicious ice-cream?