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Double Date + Duck = Fun!

Friday night J and I went on a double date with a couple of our favorite people. We met up at Foster's Homewares first because we both had gift cards we'd been carrying around. Conveniently for me, NJ Transit drops me at 6th and Market, just two blocks from Foster's. I was actually first to arrive! While walking around near the door I found the Pick Your Nose Party Cups:

They are paper cups that let you choose your nose for the evening. I was in love. However, I didn't pick them up. Maybe I'm waiting for the right event. Maybe I am feeling guilty about expensive things that are not reusable. We perused and perused, I picked up a book as a gift and snagged the display (as it was the last one) of these:
A ceramic barrel tea light holder! As it was the last one, it came with the display LED tea light (which needed a new battery), which solves my issue of our parties often outlasting our tea lights in the bathroom. I loved the fact that this looks like a trash can fire, but done in the white ceramic, it went very modern. It's sitting in the window ledge in our bathroom and is amazing. I'd love a pair, so if anyone spots another one in town, let me know!

As were all starving from circling housewares, we walked through the cold to Sang Kee at 9th and Vine. This is a place I've been hearing about via chowhound and egullet for years and never quite made it. Now that I pass it every day on the bus, I've been looking for a reason to check it out. I was suprised that there was already a wait when we arrived around 7:15, but we noticed that they also deliver! Hmmm.... I'll definitely keep that in mind for the future...

I'd heard good things about the wonton soup and the peking duck, so the "Peking Duck Dinner for Four" was a perfect choice. I could have stopped after the first course of warm wonton soup and the second course of duck, scallions, pancakes, and hoisin sauce, but there was more! Honey walnut shrimp, fried rice, chicken with eggplant, and a duck and string bean dish... thankfully we had a bit of a walk home to get rid of the too-full feeling!

Labels: cool stuff, food, foster's

posted by marthadotcom @ 8:51 PM