Dim Sum and Chinatown In the Pouring Rain

Today my Chinese and Expos class went on a field trip to Boston's Chinatown for a tour and Dim Sum lunch.  For those who don't know what Dim Sum is, it is traditional Chinese food eaten mostly in HongKong; the food is all steamed.  So we get to the Dim Sum restaurant and it didn't look like your typical Chinese restaurant it was actually nice.  We sat at this big round table and then the servers started coming with the bamboo steamers, and we began to pick which ones we wanted.  We got a lot of seafood, pork and beef dumplings, but the most extreme thing we got and 4 girls (my class is all girls) tried chicken feet.  Yes that's right a foot of the chicken it was gross watching them eat it, but hey they were braver than the rest of us!  I really like the sweet stuff haha it was the only ones that smelled good and didn't make me want to gag; OH I also liked the rice! My favorites dishes were Chilled Coconut and Watermelon soup, this pumpkin pancake thing, and sesame balls.  The chilled soup was served out of a hollowed watermelon; they put coconut milk, the balled watermelon and tapioca beads in it and it tasted like PURE sugar! So yummy I had two bowls full! It wasn't filling since it was mostly watery! Then I had the orange circle thing but it was made from pumpkin, and if it had a bit more cinnamon in it they would have tasted exactly like pumpkin pie! The sesame balls tasted like a sesame seed bagel with peanut butter on it.  The "peanut butter" was actually in the inside and it was a red bean paste.  It tasted pretty good.  I didn't have the savory dumplings because I didn't want to take the chance of getting sick; since a lot of other countries don't always cook their meat like we do.  I know in France they serve their meat almost raw unless you ask for it cooked more thoroughly, and their eggs are hardly cooked.  They are able to stomach it, but we can't really unless you're used to that stuff.  After our interesting lunch we went on a tour of Chinatown, in the POURING rain!  It was an hour long tour, and we could barely hear the guy because of Boston traffic; we weren't really paying attention because we were all soaking wet and FREEZING!  We couldn't wait until we got back onto the bus!  So that was my day hahah!  If you want a better explanation of Dim Sum if you google it and go to wikipedia it will tell you more! haha!  Now I'm going to watch food network challenge before the Real World