{"id":272,"date":"2010-08-09T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithcchan.com\/?p=272"},"modified":"2010-08-15T00:27:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T06:27:21","slug":"las-vegas-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/las-vegas-part-one.html","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas, Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the activities planned for this trip to San Diego was a trip with my parents to Las Vegas! My dad turned 70 last week. Turning 70 is a big deal<\/a> in Chinese culture so we wanted to do something special for him. Thus, the Vegas trip was born.<\/p>\n

My parents found a great deal staying at the Wynn-Encore<\/a>, which included two tickets to their show, Le R\u00c3\u00aave<\/a>. We were going to stay three nights, from Sunday to Wednesday, to avoid crowds (spoiler: Las Vegas was still crowded).<\/p>\n

I haven’t been to Las Vegas for over a decade. Arriving after the six hour drive, a lot of the Strip looks the same. There’s still a castle. And a pyramid. And a pirate ship. Our hotel was new to me though. When my parents checked in they opted to upgrade our room for a small fee. They handed me the key and said it’s the 59th floor. Surely I heard that wrong, I thought. But there we went, 59 floors up the Encore building:<\/p>\n

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View from our hotel room.<\/p><\/div>\n

The room had a lot of cool features like drapes that are button-operated and a TV in the bathroom. The free wi-fi was good too!<\/p>\n

That night we went out to dinner in Las Vegas’s Chinatown<\/a>. My parents chose Anna’s Garden<\/a>, a restaurant they had been to before.

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Pig hock!<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

The food was wonderfully authentically Cantonese: pig’s feet<\/a>, steamed fish, chicken, red bean slushees (or red bean ice<\/a>), hot pot rice with spareribs.
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Roast Duck!<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

The dinner meal also included a soup for a starter (with pork) and also a dessert of sweet tapioca. Our attempt to not overeat in Vegas was smashed the first night.<\/p>\n

We went back to our hotel and hung out, tired from the drive and full from the meal. I forgot to bring the earplugs I bought (we’re a family of snorers) but the beds were so nice we had no problem falling asleep.<\/p>\n

Next Part: My First Las Vegas Show<\/del>.. er Pinball. Yeah, Pinball.
\nOh, and the photos are being uploaded to Flickr<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the activities planned for this trip to San Diego was a trip with my parents to Las Vegas! My dad turned 70 last week. Turning 70 is a big deal in Chinese culture so we wanted to do something special for him. Thus, the Vegas trip was born…. Read more“Las Vegas, Part One”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}