What I Ate: September 4, 2010 (Fortune Seafood Chinese Restaurant, The Odd Duck Farm to Trailer)

Lunch: Braden and Kelly came up to Austin from San Antonio, so we met up for a dim sum lunch at Fortune Seafood Chinese Restaurant (10901 North Lamar Boulevard, Austin, TX‎ - (512) 490-1426‎). This is my second dim sum on a Saturday at Fortune, and I have to say they have been better both times than Shanghai's dim sum.

Dinner: They suggested we try one of Austin's famous trailers for dinner, so I took them to The Odd Duck Farm to Trailer (1219 South Lamar Boulevard, Austin, TX‎ - (512) 695-6922‎). I had the tomato and melon salad with goat ricotta ($4) and a slider with spiced pork belly, sauerkraut, jalapeno and arugula ($6). Both were perfect. The acidic tomatoes matched really well with the sweet and crisp watermelon cubes with the mild goat ricotta cheese blending it with a pleasant earthy flavor. The slider was as good as I think you can make a pork belly slider - juicy, flavorful, and wonderfully fatty pork belly playing off of the crunchy sour and pepperiness of the cabbage and rocket - I'm getting hungry for another one just writing this. Too bad they're closed on Sundays and Mondays!

Braden and Kelly also had a slider (Kelly liked it even though she typically dislikes pork, so that's high praise indeed) as well as a farm egg with goat cheese grits and a wood fire grilled quail that Kelly said was the best she's ever had.