Saturday, March 7, 2009

Cleveland Dim Sum Brunch Club

So, there are these bunch of us who hang out to have brunch at Li Wah Restaurant (one of the big Chinese Restaurant in Cleveland) during the weekends. We call ourselves the "Dim Sum Brunch Club". We went there so often that the waitresses know us very well and would talk to us as if we were old friends. Sometimes, we sort of get complimentary stuffs from them.
After the dim sum, we will stop at Koko Bakery for bubble tea and buy some buns for the following morning.

The following are photos taken in the past for our dim sum brunches:

The same people appearing almost the same time at the same place almost every weekend. 2nd pic:The 5 musketeers (only remaining surviving Malaysians in Cleveland...) from left: Sharmeel, Nick, Khee Thai, Chen, me.

So, it started of with just me, Khee Thai, and Chen going for dimsum during the weekends. I met Nick in the elevator in my building one day when a girl was trying to know me. Eventually, I got to know Nick instead of her (long story... not relevant here). So, Nick joined the club later, followed by Sharmeel. I met Sharmeel when we did a rotation together.

1st pic:Nick was sipping his tea thinking about last meeting's poker game. He is planning some new strategies for the 2nd round of "Cleveland DSBC Dai-di Tournament" in my house...
2nd: The friendly waitress that has a crush on one of our fellow members.

Food was good. Waitress talking... Someone listening... Mitsu-ru, a friend's brother joined us for Dimsum. He speaks english, portugese, spanish, french, and japanese, but unfortunately, not Madarin or Cantonese... or else, he could have joined the conversation with the waitress too.

Koko Bakery: The nice lady at the counter always gives us cakes and stuffs when we go to buy bubble tea...

Member's Profile:
Chen Hoe a.k.a. Chen: Currently a Congestive Heart Failure fellow at University Hospital. Finished Residency in Internal Medicine at CCF. Originally from KL. Speaks cantonese. Into party scenes. Likes Canton Dishes.
Kee Thai: Finished residency in General Pediatrics in Rainbow Babies. Originally from Kuantan. Currently doing an Infectious Disease and Neonatal Intensive care fellowship there.

Nichalos a.k.a. Nick/NC: Originally from KL. Studied Robotics in UK. Currently working in a company in Cleveland. Stays in the same apartment. The only sane member that did not go into medicine. Gamble King.

Sharmeel: Originally from Johor but moved to KL. Studied medicine in India, came to US to do residency in pediatrics at Metrohealth Hospital.

2 comments:

fufu said...

點心? 大好きやで!! でもさあ香港と広州のは一番ええんねん

wow... bubble tea, you know what? i drank it everyday during my 10days in taiwan =) and toufufa also :D
  
我也有想過去鄉下作義工 但是我又不是醫生護士 所以就....

Live2Think said...

@ふーちゃん:そうだね!本物の極品を試したいね。(関西弁バリバリだべ!広島弁やんけ?)
haha.. I guess we do it almost every weekend to compensate for the feeling of missing home. I miss the taiwanese 小吃!!
做义工,不一定只有医生护士才能做。我还是比较喜欢东南亚。不如我们找些“空头”来做?

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