Excellent dim sum at Ping Pang Pong and luckily we came quite early: around 11am the restaurant was almost full and carts started to reach us half empty. Memorable dishes were cheung fun, shrimp pearl balls and steamed thin skinned dumplings filled with vegetables and something like lotus seeds (or maybe those were just peanuts?)
Brunch at Lindo Michoacan was mighty good – guacamole made tableside, chiles toreados con queso - deep fried jalapenos with melted cheese (it was a mild mexican cheese and not quite usual but overwhelming jack so the dish was perfectly balanced), and taquitos dorados – corn tortillas filled with minced beef, rolled and though deep fried not greasy at all
Dinner at Burger Bar, Hubert Keller’s built your own burger place, with a very impressive draft beer list. I had an american kobe burger; SO got black jack burger (black angus). Very good sweet potato skinny fries.
Dinner at Michael Mina’s Stripsteak. Wow that was a real fun: stunning modern décor and excellent food.
Amuse of trio of spiced fries with matching sauces – romesco, truffle aioli and homemade ketchup.
For appetizers we shared roasted butternut squash soup with lobster, crab cakes with tabasco vinaigrette, and roasted beets with burrata and arugula.
Mains were slow poached colorado lamb with tapenade for me, and american kobe burger with fennel slaw and watercress for SO – we shared a side of shallot potato cakes with scallion crème fraiche.
A bottle of nice rioja – Sierra Cantabria Privada;
We even got a dessert – jasmine pearl tea although i’m completely blanking on what we had it with …
I’m getting Mina’s book asap.
Dinner at rm was yet another successful dinner at Mandalay Bay. SO declared his lobster bisque to be just perfect, and i liked my turbot very much.
