Spent the better part of the day in the hospital tending to my PIC, whose catheterization revealed the need for another stent that they put in right away. This required him to stay for another 6 hours of observation afterwards.
He was released just in time for us to make it back to the awesome dumpling place I discovered while out for a super-late lunch just 4 hours prior 
We split excellent pork & shrimp siu mai as our app
& a cucumber salad that was pleasant enough, but I’ve had and made much better versions, plus mapo tofu & crispy duck my PIC had a hankering for. The mapo tofu wasn’t great TBH, with peas & carrots (no leeks no garlic no Sichuan peppercorns) 
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but the duck was meaty and crispy, with a dipping sauce that veered sweet, which needed the addition of the very good chile oil at at the table.
I’d picked up a bottle of rosé to celebrate the ‘good’ news, too, and it promptly fell out of the hotel fridge door when I opened it to get some water (that bottle had frozen, exploded & broken the bottle in two — grrrrreat fridges at the Hilton! 
). So off I went back to the wine store for another bottle — a lovely Greek rosé from the Peloponnese (Zoe) this time.
I am so very relieved everything went well, and we’re both looking forward to being home again with our boys tomorrow.
