I recently had another Dim Sum party which turned out to be a total hoot!  First of all, Dim Sum is a Chinese tradition where you get together and order little appetizers off various carts that they roll around the dining room.  The words Dim Sum literally mean "of the heart."  Dim Sum options can be either steamed sauteed or deep fried.  The portion sizes are small and the waiter pushing the cart marks a card at your table.  At the end of the meal you bring your card up to the register and they tally up how many little appetizers you had.  Ours version isn't exactly traditional in that we will serve some Thai dishes or even Phillipino dishes, but we always have a good time.  I was telling everyone how my dumplings look so much prettier since I watched a you tube video on how to fold them correctly!

This picture makes me laugh because it looks like it should be on a coupon offering a discount at Nancy's Dim Sum Palace or something!

After dinner we went down stairs into my Retro Room to listen to Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass and drink cocktails!  This is a room I am always working on and one of my ongoing projects.  I have been filling it with memorabilia from the 60's so that you can hang out there, read magazines from the era, play with games from the era and listen to music from the era.  My friend Hannah took all these great photos and they are great!  Thanks, Hannah!!

 Yes, it is a disco ball, I love those things!!

 Hey!  What'll ya have?

Here I am with my Shirley Temple, yeah, I know that's lame. LOL!

 Here's a close up of the bar stools!

 Here's bartender John making some Margaritas!

It was a great time!  We looked at old vacation slides! HA!  Looked at View Master reels and read some old Life magazines!  I will post some brighter pictures of the Retro room a little later!