On new year’s eve Sam invited me to go with her to dinner and join her friends and friends of theirs.  There were eleven of us eating at the Dragon Restaurant in Koreatown.  Dragon brands itself as “Chinese Restaurant,” but it is known for its fusion of Korean and Chinese cuisine.  They have eight different banquet deals to pick from for large parties (ten or more).  Much like Korean karaoke, our party was given its own private room with a TV that I’ll assume is used for karaoke, but we never turned on, with a giant round table and massive lazy Susan.

I think there were  ten different pieces to the banquet.  I don’t remember all of them, but a few things were offered that I’d never tried before. Two of them were shark fins (in a soup) and jellyfish (in some kind of cold salad).  I wasn’t really partial to either of them (the only food I like cold is ice cream) as they both had a rubbery texture and not much flavor.  I still have to try shark steak and rattlesnake.  We probably could have found rattlesnake somewhere in Tucson, but I didn’t think of it.

Maybe next this year.