Christmas Eve Dinner Party

We were invited to join Dean Harold Jiang and Zoe and the foreign teachers at a Christmas Eve dinner to celebrate Christmas. We went with Dr. Robert, his wife Jean, and Tom to the restaurant. We were told the restaurant was the AI Lai which seemed to be the same that we had celebrated Thanksgiving. Rober, however, got a little lost so we were about half an hour or so late to the restaurant.

Unfortunately, Sunee and I were also invited to the English Corner organization Christmas Eve party as well. I wrote a poem for that party and now it looked like we would probably miss that party. This party with Dean Jiang was obviously our priority.

This turned out to be the same restaurant that we had celebrated November and Thanksgiving. It is a nice restaurant.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Sunee.

Also Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Tom as well.

Tom here takes the opportunity to wish the greeter a Merry Christmas as well. it is Christmas Eve!

Dean Jiang and Zoe (she actually met us on the street to show us where the place was) greeted us in our own private dining room. The room was nice as it was before.


We started the meal with appetizers such as this hot peanut Sichuan style. The peanuts were great.

Hot noodles that were Sichuan hot. Very good.

Jean and Zoe having a wonderful time early on during the dinner.

Appetizer of pickled radishes.

Specially prepared fish sticks. These were absolutely marvelous. So good that we ordered another round.

We also got some Chinese spare ribs that were really good.

This was one of the hottest dishes of the lot. These are big noodles in Sichuan hot sauce. For Sunee and I it was almost too hot to eat.

This turned out to be one of the best dishes we have eaten in Emei City. This is shrimp on cellophane noodles in a wonderfully complex sauce. It did not last long.

Here Tom continues to celebrate Christmas Eve.