note to self: do not look at your new obsession of food blogs while anxiously waiting for your father to get to your office so you can make him pay for your lunch. oh good god. i am going to die:

my dad is in dupont for some sort of conference today, so i'm deciding where we should go eat lunch. i have taken on the new daughter role of "vinyl broker". remember when i posted about my dad selling lots of his 1,000 LP collection to help me raise money for my lombardi fundraiser? well, i've spent the past couple of days hiking around d.c. to drop off albums and arranging meetings between my parents and vinyl lovers so they can comb through his collection out in their house in vienna. last friday they had some guy come over who spent three hours looking at every last record. he also mentioned that he owns a $1000 record cleaning machine. madness. fortunately, he also bought almost $250 worth of records, and i've had several other nice people pick up some here and there. so the "LPs for cancer research" thing played out pretty nicely.

in other nonvinyl foodie news (my segues are becoming more and more...well, they're not becoming anything. they're just nonexistent), tommy and i have a reservation at yanyu's tomorrow night, because it is restaurant week and we can actually afford a meal out in the city! apparently during restaurant week a lot of the uber-snooty restaurants get frustrated with the swarms of the common people, so they serve a very reduced, unspecial menu. but not yanyu. check it out:

1st Course - Lily Bulb Dumpling (Delicate egg white wrapped with minced chicken & Asian vegetables)

2nd Course - Big Duck (yanyu signature item. Peking roast duck served with pancakes, scallions, cucumber and homemade plum sauce)

3rd course - Crab Cucumber Sunomono (Tossed with chef special sauce)

4th course - Honey roasted Seabass (Roasted with bed of scallions, Shanghai style).

5th course - Crispy Garlic Shrimp (Jumbo shrimp flavored with garlic, spicy salt & pepper)

oh god. am going to die of hunger.