Birthday Supper at the Imperial

Happy Birthday to Joon!!! We celebrated Joon's birthday tonight with supper at a chinese restaurant called the Imperial Palace in Richmond, British Columbia. We eat at this restaurant very often, as the food is delicious, the service is good, and we like to go there. We also had our wedding reception at this restaurant back at Christmas in 2008.

Anyways, back to Joon's birthday. We went for supper at 7:30 and we were begining to be hungry. We had lunch at 12pm, and it held me over pretty much right up until supper, but when the food began to arrive, I realized how hungry we both were!

Since we were at the Imperial for such a special occasion we went all out... Lobster, steamed Rock Cod, Peking Pork Chop - Joon's favorite, crab and egg fried rice, and leafy greens (can't remember the chinese name)

Pic of Joon and I... Mr. Birthday himself!

Lobster, peking pork chop, and the leafy greens (from top right)

Crab and egg white rice

The four pound lobster that we ate... I missed the picture of the lobster when it was alive, but it is custom to view the lobster and agree upon the one that is about to be consumed. Same with crab. Nothing like viewing supper in its living form!!!

Steamed rock cod. The whole fish is steamed with the bones in, head on, and tail still attached. Then, the head, tail and spine are cut out by the servers. This looks disgusting, I will admit, but the fish is delicious. It has taken a lot of years on my part to eat this without feeling a little bit queasy!

Close up of the peking pork chop - Joon's favorite!

Mr. Birthday enjoying a bit of dessert. Mango pudding in the shape of Hello Kitty.

Ma and Ba... Thank you for raising such a great husband, son and man...

Leafy greens

Mango pudding dessert in the shape of hello kitty...

The always present red bean dessert. I actually like red bean dessert, but Joon HATES this dish... I have to admit, this is definitely an aquired taste. Since it is usually the only thing offered for dessert, I learned to like this dish a long time ago...

Red bean pan fried pancake... not a good dessert. This was the first time I had ever had this dessert, and I did not like it. It was extremely doughy with a red bean paste in the inside...

All in all a pretty good meal / birthday supper. We had a very chill day... a few errands this morning, lunch at Hon's noodle house, coffee's at Starbucks, and naps all afternoon. All in all, not bad. We are off to Montreal tomorrow for the last leg of our holiday before heading on to Washington, DC.

Have a great evening and HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOON!!!