After a quick workout we braved the freezing 40mph winds and made our way to the Viet store, having decided — based on this Very Cold & Windy Weather to NOT go out after dark, in the colder, even windier evening to chow down on XLB in Chinatown.
Instead, we picked up baby bok choy, and pork & crab roe XLB to have at home along with har gow that have been waiting in our freezer forevah to be steamed. I didn’t want to purchase an entire new bottle of black vinegar (I have plenty back home in the boonz), so made do with the dumpling sauce I made for the har gow.
Pretty happy about that decision. It’s 13˚F with windchill. No thanks 
Kellerbier to go with that was so inappropriately hoppy I immediately switched with my PIC’s Reissdorf. GTFOWT!
PS: For anyone curious, this is the soup dumpling brand we had. Really quite good!
