After work today, we went out for dinner in Chinatown again. The restaurant was just starting to get busy at 6pm, so my son-in-law ordered quickly. We started with a pound of boiled, head-on shrimp (a bargain at $4 a pound -- it was the last day of the promotional price), "crispy cream" seafood rolls, and steamed oysters with minced garlic. Then we had lobster Cantonese in a dry style, honey pork chops with onions served on a sizzling platter and steamed shrimp-stuffed tofu which we ate with a special fried rice. The restaurant's name for it translates to "gold/silver egg fried rice" -- because it has tidbits of salted fish, dried scallops, tiny dried shrimp, egg, scallions and yellow raisins. It is so good, my daughter would rather eat that instead of dessert.

Kew Garden, 1-3 Elizabeth Street (corner of Bayard Street), NY, NY 10013 (212) 219-3686