Sea Garden's 7-course dinner

I had to work late on a Friday night, managing a voice workshop for some wonderful Seattle writers, while my buddies (Joel, Jeff, Jeremy and Grace) went to see the horrendously bad movie 300.

Needless to say, performing poets and bad Greek epics work up quite an appetite. Now I've been going to Sea Garden since I can remember, which is about 5 years old. And it's a pretty reliable place for Cantonese style Chinese food. But this is the first time I've opted for the set course dinner - which I think has been updated.

Now 7 courses for five hungry ultimate players is just about right, which means that for any other group you should have six or seven people eating. Here's what we ate:

Sauteed Choy sum with oyster sauce
Clams and black bean sauce hot pot
Half a roast duck
Seafood and mixed vegetable stir fry
Seafood and tofu soup
Walnut Prawns
Fried Taro with condensed milk

For $68 it was a lot of food. Comfort food really. It's not the fine dining experience that most food blogs will praise, but you know what? I love salty, sweet, spicy, savory cheap Chinese food!