[Christmas In Vancouver] Day 8 / Chinese Dinner

Wow, I feel like I'm skipping a lot of days in these photo-posts. But to be honest, there really isn't much to post when you don't go out and take photos.

I guess I could screencap every fangirl squeal-worthy moment I encounter while watching dramas...but that content would probably be more suited to tumblr instead =P

Anyways, to celebrate my grandfather's birthday in advance, we had our huge family dinner at a Chinese restaurant in New Westminster called Kirin. We usually refer to it as Starlight Kirin, as it neighbours Starlight Casino. That and since there's also another Kirin location in Richmond.

It was basically a ton of Chinese food (*cough*something I'm not too fond of*cough*), followed by a Western spongecake with waaaayyyy too much icing and traditional Chinese birthday buns with lotus paste filling.

But can you tell that I used a different lens for these photos?? =D
Though taking photos of the dishes was made much easier, taking portrait shots swiftly and effectively was much too difficult without my multipurpose zoom lens (> ^ <).

That being said, here were sample shots I took while experimenting with my new macro lens. 

...I guess weebly kind of kills the quality. ^ ^;
 The white balance has already been corrected, and though it may seem as if there' s a lack of proper lighting, there really...isn't. 

But yeah, there are definitely going to be more shots with this lens ^ ^ /