Entries Tagged as 'clam'

Just Another Day At The Beach

July 8th, 2008 · No Comments


Lobster Roll, Chowder, Fries from The Skipper, South Yarmouth, Cape Cod

Yesterday I walked two miles to and from the post office. It was hot and sunny and felt good to get some exercise. After that I met up with Jessica and Julie at the beach. We stayed there all afternoon and evening. It was gorgeous outside. Partly sunny and with a nice breeze. Great beach weather.

For dinner Julie went to our house and got a bunch of beer for us to drink with our take out order from The Skipper, which we enjoyed while sitting on towels on the beach while the sun went down. We all got clam chowder and confirmed that it is the best chowder we’ve had so far. Delicious flavor, rich and thick. Jess had the clam strip roll and Julie and I had a lobster roll. What about Steph? She had to go home this morning. Sucks, but at least she got to hit up some outlet malls on the way!

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Fourth of July at the Beach

July 5th, 2008 · No Comments


The Skipper, Yarmouth, Cape Cod


Town of Yarmouth Park, Yarmouth, Cape Cod

Fourth of July at Cape Cod was not that warm and overcast, but it didn’t stop us from hitting the beach. For lunch we ate at The Skipper, which is across the street from the beach were were relaxing on. We all had the “award winning” clam chowder. It was good, but could have been served hotter. Julie and Stephanie had the lobster roll and said it was great. Jess and Jen had the clam strip roll and I had the scallop roll. It was good, but the clam strips and the scallops were both fried and I think that when you fry seafood like that it all kind of tastes the same. After lunch we went back to the beach, of course.

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Get in my Belly!

January 23rd, 2004 · 6 Comments

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year
Vivian & Yvan Trying to Order, Oriental Garden, Chinatown, Manhattan

A trip to the aquarium? No! These were just a few of the lovely creatures waiting in the tanks at Oriental Garden to become our dinner. Yvan, Jeannette, Sarah, Tien, Michael, Vivian, Yim and I were out celebrating the Chinese New Year yesterday. $198 may seem like a lot of money for dinner but not when you’re getting almost 10 courses of seafood for 8 people. We had:

- Full-bodied, freshly steamed shrimp (gnarly too look at, but very tasty)
- Seafood soup (didn’t care for this one too much – Tien ate mine!)
- Sauteed clams
- Mixed seafood platter (really good scallops & conch on here)
- A whole fish in a brown sauce (very tender and yummy)
- Lobster (delish but hard to eat with chop sticks!)
- Sauteed mussels
- Sauteed oysters (may be the first time I ate an oyster – I didn’t really like it)
- Seafood fried rice (big chunks of scallops, very tasty)
- Lo Mein (I was told it’s tradition to order this for longevity)
- Sauteed Pea Pods (I think that’s what it was – really sweet and tender)
- Oranges for dessert, of course

After adding Tsing Tao and 3 bottles of sake, the bill wasn’t all that reasonable any more, but still the dinner was so delicious and so much fun it was well worth the price.

Note: In a restaurant like this, with a menu where the prices are the only thing not in Chinese, it helps to have someone there who speaks Chinese. After 20 minutes of back & forth with the waiters, Yim finally arrived and within seconds took over the situation and ordered our drinks and food. Thank God for Yim or we’d still be there bickering with the waiter!

More Information:
- Chinese New Year, Take II, by Tien

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