True and certainly one of the mantras of a food blogger…

It’s a thrill to meet some fellow food bloggers, for I feel like I’ve “met” them or gotten to know them through their sites, but the final piece to the puzzle is of course putting a face to the name or the words. So when Christie from Fig & Cherry put a call out to us to join her at East Ocean for Yum Cha, I was only too happy to come along. Who else did I get to meet? Well Suze from ChocolateSuze; Howard and Quinling from EatShowandTell; Helen from Grab Your Fork; Jen from Jenius; Belle and William from Ooh, Look; Kathryn from Limes & Lycopene; Lisa from Spicy Icecream and Reem from Tummy Rumble. A rowdy,food lovin’ photo taking bunch if I ever I imagined one indeed. Thankfully we were seated in a corner where our copious photo taking was less obvious than if we were dining in the centre of the restaurant.

The conversation ranged from all topics food to more topics food. Here is the huge selection of food that we enjoyed. At first, it’s a full on Dumpling assault, with a take no prisoners attitude. Dumplings of all shapes and flavours are piled on our table.

Out come the cameras much to the amusement of the staff and dishes are photographed from every angle.

My absolute favourite dumpling, the prawn filled Har Gow is delicious, full of large prawns and a slight ginger flavour.

Combination dumplings

Siu Mai

My other favourites are the garlic chive dumplings. Having once tried to make the delicate translucent skin on these and failing miserably, I can appreciate how hard they are to make.

The Chicken’s feet, something that people either love or hate is tried for the first time by Reem and Lisa. I adore these but don’t order them much as my husband and friends refuse to eat them so I am stuck eating the whole thing,. Not ordinarily a hardship but then there is less room for dumplings-you do understand…

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