Friday, October 09, 2015

The Day Before the Big Day

Guests are arriving from all over the world, and while that's happening, we are going around the city running last minute errands.  Picked up our tuxs, went out for family dinner, and then to hotel to 'up head'.

The dinner @ Ming's China Bistro - 明家私房菜 was way below par :(.  Even though it was not a canton place, was expecting a good place for Chinese food.  Having tried the restaurant a few times prior to today for lunch and dinner, they were decent.  The owner was also super responsive throughout while we were setting this up.

But on the day of, the staff was slow and could not serve properly.  We had to pour the wine we brought ourselves (not to mention go in the back and open it ourselves and bring it out), food was just not getting served - the servers just seemed like they didn't know what they were doing nor understood what this dinner was about.  Though in hindsight, probably shouldn't have expectations that a restaurant in Seattle can do 'normal' Chinese dinner service.

Other than that, it was pretty fun times at dinner.  We cleaned out quite a few bottles of wine, there were a few dishes that were pretty good, and everybody was in good spirits!



After the festivities, went home and spent a couple hours on last minute preparations.  It's go time tomorrow!!!

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