Dinner at Wu Jin's Place

Last night, we were invited to Wu Jin's for dinner along with some other people from the office. Wu Jin is one of Eric's co-workers and they now share an office space. She lives in Pudong with her husband and daughter. Penny came by and we took the metro together to Wu Jin's.



Eric decided to bring along our Wii game console, which was a brilliant idea. We set it up and put in Wii Sports, which was an immediate hit with everyone. Penny was playing tennis so energetically, I thought she would surely end up embedded in the television, the coffee table, or a wall. She even hit Eric on the head (not hard) with one of her enthusiastic serves. Here, QQ (Wu Jin's 8-year old daughter) and Wu Jin's father are bowling. The best was when we started the boxing and got people to box each other. QQ fought the computer. I fought Penny. Eric fought me. Wu Jin fought her husband. Grandfather fought Grandmother. I have some video of the boxing, which everyone found to be hilarious. You don't realize how silly you look. I know I look absolutely ridiculous and I make weird noises to boot.




In between bouts, QQ played a song on the guqin. Wu Jin has two guqins. One is the more traditional instrument and has a 5-note scale (do, re, me, fa, so) and the other has the more modern 7-note scale (do, re, me, fa, so, la, ti).

Dinner was excellent. There were 6 different dishes and then tons of dumplings. I peeked in the kitchen earlier and took a picture of the army of dumplings on the counter top.



I swear that this must have been only a third of the total number of dumplings. The rest must have been stashed in another part of the kitchen. We were served bowl after bowl of dumplings, vegetable ones and meat ones. Then, when you couldn't possibly eat more, the meal was concluded with sweet soup. We rolled ourselves back into the living room and sang some karaoke.

We headed home at around 9:30p. I'm surprised the metro didn't measurably slow down with all the dumplings in our bellies.