Yesterday, Ryan, Edward, and I went off for a day's activity, starting in Chinatown, where we met for lunch. Neither of them had had dim sum before, so we opted to go to Lei Gardens, which is always a dependable place for good dim sum in D.C.'s Chinatown. Lei Garden has a "normal" Chinese restaurant on the ground level, but upstairs they serve dim sum—sort of the Chinese version of tapas—every day during lunchtime.
As with most dim sum restaurants, a couple of carts circulate around the dining room with stacks of little round, covered, aluminum dishes filled with every imaginable type of dumpling or appetizer.
Neither Ryan nor Edward use chopsticks and didn't seem particularly interested in learning to use them, so I didn't push the issue.....it was nice just getting them both to try something different!
They wouldn't let me get chicken feet, so I kept things tame. We had mostly dumplings—round balls of meat wrapped in an outer casing of pasta or won ton wrapper type stuff. Some were beef, some were seafood, some were pork, and Edward's favorite kosher dumpling was a mix of pork and shrimp. He also had the special round dumplings filled with frog eyes. We all tried some kind of beef thing that was flat, square, and between two big sheets of pasta like stuff. In addition, we had fried and baked taro root, sesame balls, and little custard pies.
We were all shocked and appalled at Edward's table manners. You'd think his mother never taught him how to use a fork and a napkin! Since he couldn't do chopsticks, he just ate with his fingers, cramming that food in as fast as he could eat it!
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