Most of my childhood eating experiences revolve around time with my grandmas, who would make an army of jiao zi on the kitchen table, or with my dad, forever experimenting with French and Chinese food, seafood and duck breasts in the kitchen. It was only occasionally that I would spend time alone with my mom, just eating (and not working on calculus or physics or whatever I was failing at the time). Sometimes she would make an afternoon snack of peeled tomatoes and sugar (funnily, the only other time I've had something remotely similar to this is in Alan Wong's restaurant kitchen), but some of my favorite memories were when we'd go to the Strawberry Tea Room in our neighborhood and order afternoon tea with cucumber and cream cheese sandwiches, little cakes, and my favorite: bubble-and-squeak, if only for the name. It seems appropriate, then, to spend Mother's Day weekend enjoying afternoon tea. Though I suspect I'm now too old to join the "Sugar and Spice Mother Daughter Tea" at the Moana Surfrider, I can only imagine the memories that will be made over little finger sandwiches and scones and clotted cream.
Details: Sugar and Spice Mother Daughter Tea, Saturday, May 9, 2009 from 1-4pm at the Veranda at the Moana Surfrider. For reservations or information, call 921-4600 or visit www.moanasurfrider.com
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