clement street (part II)

For lunch one fine thursday afternoon, it occured to us to have some DIM SUM. We bus-ed it al the way out to clement street where my lovely friends jenna 
(who deserves a photo because she was our wonderful photographer -->), 
and hana (who is here right outside this <-- wonderful eating establishment)took me to Good Luck Dim Sum. Which was lucky for me (see the pun there?) becasue it was DELISH. This was definatley the kind of place the locals eat at and it was just absolutley wonderful. 

Now I am not a huge fan of pork or of shrimp, which i should really get over because here jenna-the-expert ordered us the best selection of dim sum, including pork and shrimp filled things.I dont REALLy remember what everything was called but i know there was siu mai and cha siu bao--MY FAVORITES. 
Siu mai is this pork meatball type thing in some sort of yummy wrapped and cha siu bao is STEAMED PORK BUNS, aka heavan on earth. We had a giganitic plate of dim sum, and then we ate it. ALL OF IT, it was amazing.
And to top it all off, the meal of dim sum-y awesomeness was completed by, what else, dessert. We had this little hollow rolls of mochi like stuff all covered in sesame seeds and filled with red bean paste, SO GOOD. Why haven't I been here before?

clement street adventure

After a luxurious half day at school, my chemistry partners in crime Jenna and Hana took me to their wonderful neighborhood-- CLEMENT STREET.
woot woot.

It was here that we had food adventures. Great food adventures, the first of which is bubble tea (milk tea with tapioca) and honey dew slush. These wondertastic beverages were purchased at the coolest store ever. 
There were rows and rows of candy--asian specialty candy right along side your basics, so delish.

yes, those are lychee, durian, red bean and taro flavored ice cream

And then right across from this plethora of candy...there was even more variety, with tropical ice cream flavors and a bilingual menu, this place had it all.

 This menu right here was actually really overwhelmingly delicious and made it extremely difficult to decide on our beverages, Jenna was set on tapioca...but that didnt narrow it down at all because tapioca could be added to EVERY BEVERAGE.
After about five minutes of looking at ever option, we finally setteled for one PIÑA COLADA bubble tea and one HONEY DEW SLUSH. The slush was icy and cold and tasted JUST like honey dew and we got to watch the lady make it, shaving down the ice and mixing it up. The pina colada one was just as refreshing, and although tapioca's not my thing, it was delicious and tropical and really it the spot. These yummy beverages were just really, really, reaaaaally good.

★ more clement street food adventuring to come...