Fun with Food. . . in Chinatown!

On Sunday night, I met up with Marjorie and her friend M (who used to live in Shanghai and speaks Chinese) to go to a place that M heard was the best hot pot restaurant in NYC. The restaurant was a little hard to find, since it's right across from the Manhattan Bridge, on a stretch of Canal Street (125 Canal at Christie) that my cab couldn't get to -- I had to get out and walk across a pedestrian bridge to get there!

Here are Marjorie and M at the restaurant, with our hot pot spread in front of them!

I've never had hot pot before, and I was REALLY wondering just how this was going to go down. We ordered the pot with half spicy broth and half chicken broth (not spicy), and then put in our food so that it could cook. Fortunately, the meats were sliced very thin and everything cooked up to be relatively soft, so I was able to try everything without getting stuck at all!

Here is a close-up of our hot pot!

Another view of the meats, veggies and tofu

we cooked in the hot pot:

And, here is a blurry photo of me. .
The food was delicious, went down well, and it was very cheap by Manhattan standards -- not to mention that the company was very good. All in all, a successful dinner!

And, as of this morning, I'm down another .8 . . yay!!! I'm trying to get to (or past. . ) the 40 lb down point by April 31st, which I think is pretty realistic, though my weight has been stalling a lot lately. I started working out with my old trainer again last Monday, though with pay cuts at work, I don't think I'm going to be able to keep that up. Still, it was great to get a jump start on the exercise front, and I'm feeling motivated about getting to the gym in earnest now.