It looks like a smiling green dolphin.
It has been smiling at me, so I ate it.
It was delicious.

In Florida there are plenty of mango trees and mangos during summer (summer is all rear round). Mango season is late May, June, July. Each year in July there is an Annual International Mango Festival at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables Florida.

My favorite mangos are yellowish orange and have the shape of an egg and they are no bigger than human fist. They are sweet. I know them by the name Mango Rosa.

Other good mangoes soft and sweet are yellow oblong with really flat oblong seed. There is not much seed inside. It looks like it collapsed to give way to surrounding goodness.

Haden mangos are the biggest. Some have to be held in two hands. They are red and purple outside. Have a lot of juice and thick stringy pulp. Not too sweet. They are very hard and not tasty before they are fully ripe. Best tasting when ripe and soft.

My least favorite mangos have green color skin. They are not sweet and have whitish sap and a lot of stringy pulp.

Chinese New Year gift box.

It contains extremely sweet candied fruits and nuts.

There are English words at the bottom of the yellow sticker:

“Extends new year’s greetings the gift box”

I understand the idea, but the words make no sense.

Will have to collect more of this treasures of confusion.

We celebrated The Year of the Rat as usual, by eating out. One day early, to beat the crowds. Tomorrow we will celebrate again by eating at home. Steamed fish is my favorite. I like to eat a tail part.

My wife cooks a better fish as you can see below.

It also tastes super. We ate this one two days ago.

This guy was guarding a long waiting line at the Croissan’Time in Fort Lauderdale. The sign below said Please, Wait Here, so we did. We got some great looking pastries and baguettes to welcome the New Year with great tasting food.

Today we had a family breakfast at the newly opened dim sum restaurant.

Dim sum is a traditional Chinese breakfast consisting of small dumplings and other small, bite size stuff to eat.

At the beginning my plate looked orderly and normal with vegetable dumpling, taro square cake and some hot sauces. I also ate the usual shrimp dumplings followed by not so usual baby squid, beef tripe and chicken feet. To help the stomach it is advisable to drink hot Chinese tea. I like the chrysanthemum tea sweetened with large sugar crystals.

Here are some chicken feet on a plate that is getting messier by the minute.

My way to judge the food is to wait half a day after eating it to see if any problems like wind, belching, cramps or other abnormalities develop. You can also anticipate good quality of ethnic food by the presence of the natives eating there. The restaurant is good. We will visit it again.