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Tromped down to Yum Cha Restaurant in Chinatown today for a languid dim sum high tea.

Yummers. Had my favorite black bean pork ribs, as well as absolutely delish fried bean curd rolls with prawns. Oh and prawn and mango rolls, and lovely goose liver xiao long bao, and ‘Three Treasure Bundle’, and double-boiled lotus root and wintermelon soup. Et cetera et cetera munch munch burrrp.

The fried bean curd rolls were to die for. I do recall posting an entry about the ones my mother made awhile back.

The har gow weren’t that fantastic, the skin was a bit too thick for my liking. But the chee cheong fun with char siew was quite good and I loved the mango pudding. I’m just a sucker for mangoes and mango pudding.

Not bad for $16.80++ high tea buffet.

Got back in time to watch cheerleading! I love the annual cheerleading competition. It’s the only competitive hall event that gets better every year because the standard just goes up and up. Costumes this year also reached a new level of creativity. We had bunny waitress outfits, S&M outfits, disco queens and arrrr, thar be pirates.

The best hall, I thought, was Hall 7 (above) whom I think were defending champions and who also performed last. They were the ones in the pirate costumes - white ruffled shirts, red cummerbunds for the guys, and piratey wenchey tops with ruffled skirts for the girls. I’d thought the skirts were rather strange at first but lo! They could be unravelled to make long skirts! which they did a Latin dance in. And then! it detached! And the guys used the long wraparound skirts as matador capes! The brilliance! The innovation! Plus I think they had the best choreography and stunts. Still, they only finished third. Shrug.

Pictures out!