Xmas Buffet, Chink Santa, and a Christmas Donkey

My grandma wants to know if y'all are ready to EAT...



To celebrate Christmas we headed over to the American Club buffet for what is, I guess, a family tradition...face-stuffing.





Every kind of meat you could possibly imagine. Prime ribs, seafoods, salads, sushis, pastas, indian curries, chinese randomness, racks of lamb, crabcakes made of all crab and minimal batter, lobster thermidor, turkey, hams....I could go on.








Eating makes us all very happy.





And our pseudo-cousin-in-law Adela just had a baby.

Chinese Santa was on hand to terrify the children.




(Chink Santa is a tiny Santa.)



Oh and the dessert buffet was to die for.




My favorite was the Creme Brulee.



Stuffed, we headed home for a 3-hour napbreak between meals.



Then around 6pm it was off to the Jockey Club for Christmas dinner.

The eatparty seriously never ends here.




Best dish ever was the lobster with noodles.

I wish I hadn't been on the verge of vomiting so that I could have enjoyed more of it.



Oh and of course then came the Christmas Donkey.



Grandma was all like "Xmas Donkey in the HIZZZZOUSE!!!!"
(but in Chinese.)



She is such a cool lady.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Xmas 2008: Part 2 - Carnivore Fest

From delicious Chinese lunch, we went up to Concord/Carlisle to hang with Uncle Dick, Auntie Alice, and Alena Zoe.

First thing we did was swap presents.



Zoe knitted me a beauuuutiful "scarf"...



And Zoe, being the youngest Kwan, was showered with millions of gifts from her millions of uncles, aunties, and cousins.

From us she received...



Jenga...?



And...



An aero-bed?



Little Zoe was a bit confused at first...



but as she kept opening...



she found a bag.



And inside the bag she found NEMO!



....................

After gifting, it was time for delicious dinner.



There were shrimps and lamb chops and bacon-wrapped scallops and turkeys and yams and mmmmm it was delicious.




And then we topped that off with two cakes from Pastiche - seriously the greatest dessert place in the whole wide world.





I quickly slipped into a food coma and Zoe stacked her animals on me.



Mischievous mischievous demon-child...

I woke up and put her in her place.





Merry Xmas!

Xmas 2008: Part 1 - China Food

Felix and Kathryn and Sandra and her friend Christy were all in Providence/Boston for Christmas.

We met up for Christmas lunch at Chef Chang's in Boston.




Copious amounts of dumpy dump dumprings and peking duck (not pictured) were eaten.



Kathryn got a funny fortune.



Sandra got a better one.



Hopefully this is the end to a somewhat awful year and next year will be so much better.

Now we're off to Uncle Dick and Auntie Alice's for more face-stuffing.