A terribly late lunch, even for my standards. Spent the better part of the day in the hospital with my boo until he was all clear & told me to get. some. food!!!
Which proved more difficult than expected. The cute Farmhouse cafe on campus wouldn’t let me order the desired Cubano ahead online, and all I could see in the vicinity of our hotel was pretty much every single North American FF / fast casual chain under the sun 
NO THANK YOU.
As luck would have it, the nearby mall is home to a spiffy new dumpling place with 3 different kinds of XLB, so dumplings it was. I was told the XLB would take about 20 min, so I had MOAR DUMPLINGS as an app — i.e. wontons in spicy peanut sauce with chile oil, to which I added… more chile oil.
XLB were quite lovely as well: delicate skins, of which only one tore while being maneuvered onto the spoon, and a juicy, flavorful filling.
We’re going back for dinner once I pick my dude up from the recovery unit. BYOB, too! 
