Thanksgiving 2015 Long Weekend Report: Thanksgiving Lobster and Oreo Crepe Cake.

Lunch Friday -> Rideau Restaurant.
Went to Rideau Restaurant for lunch with some of the CMC boyz. Only 5 of us went, but we ordered 6 dishes: Schezwan beef, General Tao Chicken, Cantonese chow mein, sizzling black pepper steak, salt & pepper pork chop, and fried green beans with black bean and dried shrimp.

Rideau Food.

We destroyed all the plates :)

Destroyed Rideau Food.

Snack Friday -> Birthday Cake.
Gavin was in town this weekend.  We met up Friday night.  We celebrated Emi's birthday early by surprising her with a cake and gifts.

Surprise Emi.

Ben bought the cake from the French Bakery in Kanata, La Provence.  It was a Lemon Cheese Mousse cake.  Very good and lite.

Lemon Cheese Mousse.

We played games afterwards.  We started with Istanbul.  Unique work management game and fun.  It's hard to stop someone once they get ahead.  I think the game needs a way for players to steal of lose resources randomly.  Not a game for Brian.  He would give up after a few turns.

3-Player Istanbul.

Next we played Tiny Epic Galaxies.  Good game, but I think it would have been better with more than 3 players.  A worker placement and roll-your-luck dice game.

Tiny Epic Galaxies.

Finished the night with a bunch of game of Magic.  It's been awhile since I played Magic and nothing beats this game.

3-Player Magic.

Happy Birthday Uncle Chin!!!
Saturday we went to Montreal for my Uncle's birthday.  I ate soooo much food!
When we got there, we had a late lunch/appetizer.  There was BBQ pork, chicken, duck, different meat buns, tempura shrimp.  I was semi-stuffed with this meal.

Appetizers.

Then we went to Chinatown for dinner.
Started with a good fish maw soup.  For some reason they didn't give us any white pepper.

Fish Maw Soup.

Next was some really good seafood roll.  It was shrimp paste with chunks of shrimp and scallop made into a roll and then deep fried.  Very good topped with a bit of mayo and sriracha.

Seafood Roll.

Next was chicken.  It was very good too, but we all had just eaten good chicken for lunch.

Chicken.

Noodles was next.  A rich seafood, chicken, and veggie chow mein.  Lots of toppings on the huge bowl of crispy egg noodles.

Seafood Chow Mein.

A whole fish followed.  This was the weakest dish.  The fish was over cooked and lacked flavour.  Lots of tiny bones too.

Steamed Fish.

A shrimp-loaf was next.  A simple filler dish, but very good.

Shrimp-Loaf.

Next was a beef shank bowl with tofu.  Some tasty marrow filled bones in this bowl.

Beef Shank and Tofu.

Jumbo shrimp on spinach greens (I think).  I was getting full, so I didn't get much of this.

Jumbo Shrimp on Greens.

The highlight of the night: 2 lobsters stir fried with ginger and green onions.  This dish was so good. I ended up finishing most of the lobster as everyone at our table was full or didn't want to eat the hard to eat piece.  It got messy, but I didn't care.  As I was finishing. the other table brought over their lobster plate and polished off most of that plate too.

Lobsters

Fried rice came at the end, but it was just fried rice with pea, carrots, bbq pork, and shrimp.  No pic.
After the feast, we went back to my uncle's place for dessert.  There was 2 cakes and some squares from Totally Squared.  The cakes were fruity short cake and an awesome Oreo Crepe cake.

Cakes.

The Oreo Crepe Cake was extremely good, almost beats the Nutella Crepe Cake.  Almost.  The weak point is the creme between the layers is thicker and made the cake more heavy than the light nutella crepe cake.  The cakes were from Les Delices Lafrenaie.