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@ mumrthigal- I agree! I'm chinese and all of the parties I went to growing up and that my family hosted were all 'potluck' - the hosting family made a bunch of dishes, but each family also brought some wine, dessert, and or a dish or two.

However, after coming to college and seeing the parties here, as well as my half jewish boyfriend's family parties and such, apparently parties not specified potluck are just the hosts' responsibilities...0.o

chocolare pudding!!

WIth a great french baguette!

I have this old knife my mother brought from china that she gave to me to take to college...

on a great french baguette!

Chocolate pudding =)

With a lot of milk -either skim or whole, and with a sweet and low - not very gourmet but I love it and it keep me awake!

Post-dinner Review:

So we ended up going to Matyson for their Crab tasting menu, and we loved it! There was such a strong undercurrent of crab flavor all throughout the savory plates, and 4 of the 5 courses were great (the other one had a veal sweetbread and we didn't like the inner texture, but really enjoyed the crab and asparagus fritatta underneath).

We started with a softshell crab on some mango-jicama slaw. The crab was so full of crab juice and meat on the inside yet still crispy and perfectly salted on the outside. The slaw was very tasty but an unique accompaniment in my opinion. Next was the jumbo lump crab dumplings in a curry sauce. Again, a lot of crab and was tasty! I told my mother these reminded me of the Chinese xiao long bao and wished all xiao long bao were full of crab. The third course was our absolute favorite - a rather simple risotto with dungeness crab, blueberries, and 'hen of the woods'. SO DELICIOUS!! The best way to describe it is...'lipsmackingly savory'. I wanted more!! The fourth plate was the one with the veal sweetbread - again, the crab/asparagus fritatta underneath was savory and delicious, but we weren't used to the sweetbread texture on the inside (although the seared crust was pretty tasty). Last, we had a lemon souffle dessert with a scoop of sorbet, passionfruit perhaps (I don't remember the sorbet flavor).

For $45 dollars each, we were both very pleased with this tasting menu and loved the flavors and getting multiple plates of delicious food. This week is escargot!!

@ kcijones: Lol not sure, I'm at school up in Cambridge, MA, so apparently somebody knew it from before....maybe they were from south jersey =P

Really 12 characters? And here I was always limiting myself to 8!!

breadncheese
baguette
fujitime

So many possibilities =P

Awesome!

I just saw the 'newer' Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (it's named differently - Willy Wonka and his Chocolate Factory?) and wish that food-to-tv-to-consumer thing is real.

Beijing duck!