Turnip cake to cook

I bought "luo bo gao" (turnip cake usually served at dim sum) when I was in Chinatown the night I met Rebecca for the beef noodles. The store itself is quite ugly, more like a storage facility than anything else, but the place serves its purpose for selling cheap, fresh Chinese foods to be taken home to prepare. So I have yet to pan-fry my turnip cake because they are currently white, uncooked blocks with chunks of pre-cooked white turnip. I forget the name of the shop but they also offer taro cakes, sesame seed balls (yay!), dumplings, egg noodles, and other popular items like "zong zi" (the savory sticky rice with meat and mushrooms wrapped in bamboo leaves). The list continues but I can't remember them after surveying the haphazard inventory and everything on the menu was scrawled on a red plastic board in Chinese Characters that looked like they had been written a very long time ago. Be it the passing years from the sweat, grease or water coming from god knows what, it's a sign legible by people who really know how to read Chinese even if a slash is missing. Anyhow...hopefully the "luo bo gao" is really good. Two bad things in one week is unbearable. Three? I'll be in tears.

Lesson of the day: Strawberry Shortcake is currently something nobody really knows how to make well (I am not the only who says this). Don't judge a shop by how it looks ...yet. Some ugly, tacky Chinese restaurants serve the most delicious foods ever. Food so good that bad service can be tolerated.