What is in Irish champ?
Green onions, mostly, added to traditional mashed potatoes. Good stuff!
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That looks similar to the one I bake, except I saute finely diced onions, garlic, carrots and celery, and I use a panade instead of dry bread crumbs.
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I made two 5 x 7 loaves and one and a half went into the freezer. Sometimes I keep the half out for sandwiches but I don’t usually eat lunch.
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We had chicken saagwala. A favourite in our home though I do wish I had more spinach to purée but such is life. Served with garlic and coriander naan bread.
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HBD to your Spring Onion!
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Disappointing Chinese takeout last night. The shrimp tasted off as in too old. On my way over, the employee called to say my mushroom tofu skin rolls were unavailable and he suggested I try something pumpkin strings. Low and behold. About 2 pounds of deep fried battered fried pumpkin.
I had been trying to avoid a big meal by ordering shrimp and chive dumplings, mushroom tofu skin rolls and stir fried veg. I tried one pumpkin string because I had paid money for it (this was to substitute for a $10.88 tofu skin rolls). Didn’t like it but tried another one to see if I changed my mind. Nope. I left it outside for a hungry person, along with the mixed vegetables (I picked out the broccoli and mushrooms) since I see people looking for food lately.
I walked to the store to get some milk .
My dinner was toasted challah from the freezer and some cereal.
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We’re going out for sushi tonight! And I currently have some lamb breast thawing in the fridge for a birria for Sunday. Yay!
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Fried pumpkin and off shrimp? 
I’d have been livid at the waste of money and food. And probably ordered pizza.
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My chef cyber friend who recommended the restaurant, when I let him know it has slipped, was defensive on behalf of the restaurant 
. My chef cyber friend thought me getting some dim sum takeout at night was the issue. I’m deleting anything favourable that I wrote on HO. Its a tough business. That restaurant is newish, in a spot that turns over so I’m not surprised they are letting things slip in a bad economy. I’m not going back. I have other things to make me livid
The take-out meal does win the prize for most disgusting resto meal of 2023 for me. 
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I always want more spinach too! (Started doubling my mom’s proportion at some point.)
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There might be something to that, as dim sum is usually a day food. Many restaurants don’t even serve it after lunchtime.
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I agree.
That said, these were steamed to order. Even if they were made for Friday lunch dim sum, the ammonia at 5 or 6 pm shouldn’t have been getting to the gross out level.
This spot isn’t a dim sum -only place. It has a fairly limited menu for a downtown Cantonese spot. Around 24 dim sum items and 24 dinner items. About 2/3 of the dim sum items are available during the day and in the evening. They are slightly more upscale than a standard Chinatown restaurant, and some dim sum items are not available in the evening on their online site. The ones I ordered were showing as available in the evening.
Really? Aside from the bakeries in Chinatown I’ve not found that the case. There are specialty items that may only be available in the morning or on weekends, but run of the mill dumplings tend to be an anytime order at most restaurants around me.
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Yes, there’s always at least a few things. But take at look at the Wu’s menu, for instance. Most of the dim sum is available only at lunch. And some of the old school rice roll places aren’t even open for dinner.
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But that’s IN Chinatown. Elsewhere, not the case.
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Your heart swells with giving!
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Toronto’s Dundas & Spadina Chinatown also has some dim sum available all the time, especially now that Fan Tuan and other Asian food apps deliver to the Asian community. The dim sum specialists in Toronto’s Dundas Spadina Chinatown that are a little better tend to limit the variety of dim sum available after 3 pm, but the har gow / siu mai / char siu bao available in the evening is usually at the same standard as the daytime stuff.
Har gow are available all the time at most of the Congee places with big menus in Toronto and LondonOnt. I happen to like the shrimp and chive dumplings a lot more than plain har gow, and 3 shrimp dumplings is the perfect amount of protein for my girl supper, hence my order
I miss Manhattan’s Chinatown with all its nooks and crannies.
Toronto’s Dundas Spadina Chinatown is much smaller, but overall, very well set-up for take-out.
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