My friends and I have been consistently getting together for lunch on Fridays. We live in the same area so it’s easy to meet up. They have the freedom of working from home, and I work only a few blocks from home. Lunch on Fridays is a nice reprieve from the work week, a sort of early start to the weekend. We’re privileged to have jobs that allow us the leisure to do so.
Last Friday we went a bit ambitious. Because our respective afternoons were decidedly not busy, we went to get dim sum at a Chinese restaurant. And if you’ve ever gone dim sum, you know those things take hours. At popular spots on weekends, you will be waiting an hour just to get seated. Koi Palace is significantly less busy on a Friday noon, but even then we had to wait about 20 minutes for a table. Apparently there were lots of party of fours.
I was not surprised, because I knew there would be plenty of Chinese uncles and aunties - since retired - lunching at Koi Palace. What better social spot than dim sum? You sit and chat for a few hours, whilst munching on this and that. I hope my parents will do exactly that as well, once they are retired. My related uncles and aunts already do so back home in China.
So it was a bunch of retired Chinese people, kids that don’t yet have school, and then us at Koi Palace. If you’re able to, I highly recommend going dim sum on a weekday. It’s far more chill and relaxed than weekends. But then you can probably say that for lots of places, like a museum or theatre.
A real thinking man.