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James Felder.
Craig, Ricky and Lisa study their menus:
Lisa and Owen eat soup:
Scallion pancakes:
Soup dumplings:
Diana eats a soup dumpling:
Sauteed eggplant:
General Tso's Chicken (I know, how American: but it was actually one of the best dishes of the night!):
Whole fish in brown sauce:
Chicken and cashews:
Scallops and asparagus:
Whole braised pork shoulder (highly recommended!):
Jimmy and Jim pay their portion of dinner (it was $18 a person for ALL THAT FOOD):
Lauren and Patty have ice cream at the Chinatown Ice Cream factory:
I had black sesame:
Thanks to everyone who came--and special thanks to Anil and Alaina for helping us with the menu. And James for taking the pictures. It was a great birthday.
Comments (20)
happy birthday, AG!!! wishing you many more happy eats!
cheers!
Posted by iamchanelle | February 19, 2007 10:42 AM
Happy birthday! I hope this year brings only more wonderful thing for you.
Posted by E | February 19, 2007 10:55 AM
General Tso's rules... I don't care how "Americanized" it is or whatnot - that stuff is just plain awesome when it's prepared well.
Happy Birthday AG, here's to many more...
Cheers!
Posted by zeep | February 19, 2007 11:46 AM
Nice pics!
Posted by Duane | February 19, 2007 11:58 AM
Happy birthday! Glad we got a chance to hang out.
Posted by Anil Dash | February 19, 2007 12:07 PM
Happy Birthday Adam!!
The birthday dinner food looked awesome. I hope your "wish" comes true.
Thank you for such an entertaining blog. I'm so glad that I stumbled apon your jewel of a page! :o)
Posted by Erin | February 19, 2007 4:59 PM
Happy birthday, Adam! Looks like a good time was had by all. Way to go! Best wishes for the upcoming year.
Posted by AdamH | February 19, 2007 5:44 PM
HB to you Adam. What a lucky, lucky man getting to feast at New Green Bo...the soup dumplings are the absolute best, most sublime dumpling ever. Thanks for the photos as the last time I was there I didn't get any pictures because we were too busy eating.
My Holy Grail is to replicate them here in Wisconsin.
Posted by vanessa | February 19, 2007 5:54 PM
OMG...you also had the CTICF Black Sesame ice cream...okay that does it, now I'm really jealous.
Posted by Vanessa | February 19, 2007 8:23 PM
hooray! happy birthday to you! on a very cold night.
Posted by Jessica | February 19, 2007 8:29 PM
Happy Birthday, Adam! I love the photos.
Posted by Tina | February 19, 2007 10:17 PM
Happy Birthday AG! How appropriate that you celebrated your birthday in Chinatown on the eve of Chinese New Year too. I love the photos almost as much as I love soup dumplings and black sesame ice cream ;)
Posted by Vincci | February 20, 2007 12:26 AM
Happy Birthday! Prosperity and abundance to you.
Posted by Kathleen | February 20, 2007 10:03 AM
Nice lens baby on that camera.
Happy birthday!
Posted by Rebecca | February 20, 2007 11:16 AM
Dinner per person: $18.
Capturing lingering pork shoulder right in front of Lisa's face: priceless.
Happy Birthday, Dear!
Posted by Jenni Loves Adam | February 20, 2007 2:29 PM
As Rebecca pointed out... I love the affect of that lens. Can you find out what it is? I total adore the "Scallops and asparagus" shot. Oh ya, and I wish you the best of years ahead.
Posted by Jason Sholar | February 20, 2007 2:39 PM
Birthday in Chinatown... now that's my kind of party! Happy B'day!
Posted by Zach@MidtownLunch | February 20, 2007 2:54 PM
Hey Jason,
The lens I shot that with is a wonderful little (and relatively inexpensive lens) called a lensbaby (http://www.lensbabies.com/). I'm using a wide-angle adaptor for it that further distorts the image a bit. If you use a digital or film SLR, you'll have a lot of fun playing with one! Glad you liked the photo!
Posted by James Felder | February 20, 2007 4:33 PM
Happy Birthday Adam! Looks like a great dinner and I love the thought of black seasame ice cream - I need to hunt that one down!
Posted by WendyB | February 20, 2007 4:50 PM
That's a really excellent picture of Diana eating the dumpling.
Posted by christina | February 20, 2007 8:23 PM