Chicago Day Trip

We went to Chicago for a day trip on Sat... Met some new friends that day too... Its actually my 2nd time to Chicago, the 1st being on the day I arrived in the US. Did not see much that day as it was late when we reached Chicago Chinatown.

Stopover at Starbucks...

Well, we arrived at Chicago Chinatown rather late. While waiting for the others to arrive we took some photos and walked around the shops. We bought some stuff there - dried chinese mushrooms, american ginseng and some other herbs...

We then headed over to Happy Chef Dim Sum House for lunch. It was a rather late lunch (think it was ard 3pm). The 点心 (Dim Sum) tasted quite OK and it was my first time eating 点心 in USA. I really miss 点心, especially siew mais... =(

After lunch, we walk around the shops again as others needed to get some stuff from the shops. Since we had already bought most of the stuff we need, we took more photos of the place...

Then we went to 万事达饼家 to stock up on big 叉烧包 (Char Siew Pau). =p We also ordered 豆奶 (Soya Bean Milk), 豆花 (Soya Beancurd), 菠罗包 (Bo Luo Bao) and Egg Tart to have in the restaurant while we sat and chatted with the others...

Some photos taken on the streets of Chinatown... It had started to snow...

We sat and chat in the restaurant till dinner time. Someone suggested having Korean BBQ and so we moved off to a Korean restaurant - San Soo Gab San. The restaurant was crowded when we arrived so we had to wait for quite a while before getting seats...

Here's what we had... There's chicken/pork/beef/pork belly to BBQ, a big soup dish and lots of small side dishes...

The food here is nice! But the place was rather smoky as its BBQ and you smell of the food after leaving the restaurant. As we had 9 people, I felt that things were a little messy as there did not seem to be enough place to put the things on the table. Hence, things were placed everywhere. I would like to visit this restaurant again but with lesser people.