For those of you who know me, you know how much I love to eat. (It shows in my waistline ;-). I’ve been on the road for two days and done absolutely no knitting. But, I have done a significant amount of eating.

As you know, I live on the coast of Maine, about two hours north of Portland. There are many restaurants here, many of which are good, but not much good ethnic food. For a person raised in California, who spent a great deal of her adult life in Los Angeles and Berkeley, the lack of ethnic food is difficult to live with.

In Boston we went to eat dim sum at China Pearl, in Providence, RI we ate Indian food at Not Just Snacks, had heavenly bread and pastries at Seven Stars Bakery and Mongolian-BBQ style food at Fire + Ice.

I’m home now and still stuffed to the gills. In addition to dark chocolate and hazelnut biscotti and pecan sticky buns at Seven Stars, I brought spinach and gruyere chese calzones for dinner. There were also two sourdough batards and some kalamata olive buns hidden the bag. I’m having French toast for breakfast tomorrow!

So the kids wouldn’t feel left out I brought home two dozen baked char sui bao and a dozen steamed bao. These are what my mom used to call Chinese hamburgers. They are wonderful buns filled with Chinese BBQ pork (sweet and salty). Some are baked and some are steamed. My children like both.

In chocolate news, I bought this, this, and this. I might share if certain people are nice to me. I obviously have an addiction to dark chocolate!