Dec 11-15, 2021

Right after being fully vaccinated eight months ago, we booked a few nights at The Resorts World, the newest and most expensive built casino/resort property, in Las Vegas to attend Carrie Underwood's Reflection Concert. The Resorts World is also owned by the same parent company of Crystal Cruise Line, Genting Group. One unique feature of the resort is the Famous Foods Street Eats, a food hall with cuisines most from South Asia. On Saturday, we drove five hours directly to the resort from home and checked in Conrad, one of the three hotels within the Resorts World. After settling down, we immediately went down to Famous Foods Street Eats to try various Asian dishes. We were so excited about the claypot rice before our trip based on the information on their website. To be honest, the beef claypot rice from Geylang Claypot Rice (芽笼砂煲饭) was not very impressive, not served in a hot claypot as expected, and got cold quickly. Mama San Combo from Kuru Kuru PA was delicious, including a Chicken Wing, Kurobuta Pork Jowl, Chicken Hearts, and Rice Ball with Seaweed Seasoning. Since we were so disappointed with the claypot rice, we ordered another dish from another vendor, Googgle Man's Char Kuey Teow, the Rice Noodle with Chinese Sausage, Shrimp, Manila Clam, Crispy Pork, and Egg. The noodle dish was terrific and met our standards. Later in the night, we tried another vendor Fuhu Shack, ordered the Roast Peking Duck & Steam Rice Bowl after the concert. The roast duck was perfect.

As Delta variant was surging in the country, we started to question whether we should attend the indoor concert. We even put the tickets for sale until one hour before the show began. The tickets weren't sold, so we went to the concert anyway. The concert was almost sold out. Although the law requires wearing face masks indoor in Nevada, only about 60% of them wore the masks, and a lady, sitting next to us, was singing along all-time without a face mask. With precaution, we wore double masks during the performance. The Underwood concert was at the brand-new, state-of-art theater inside the Resorts World, the largest and highest stage in Vegas, and the performance was high-energy and impressive. We enjoyed the experience and hope we will attend more live music events in the future.

Sunday morning, we had traditional Chinese breakfast, 豆浆油条（soybean milk and Chinese churro), in Chinatown. Then we stopped at O'Reilly, the auto part shop, to figure out our vehicle's Check Engine Light code. Yesterday, on the way to Vegas, the Check Engine light suddenly turned on before arriving at the resort. The car seemed running fine. For precaution, we want to know the issue with the vehicle. A technician at O'Reilly told us that it was the issue of CAMSHAFT sensor. We had the same problem before and had replaced the sensors. We could do nothing at this point since the local Benz dealer was closed on Sunday. So we just kept our fingers crossed and hoped nothing serious would happen. Continuing our plan, we visited Seven Magic Mountains in the Nevada desert, an art installation by a Switzerland artist. On the way back to the town, the Check Engine light went off. What a relief! Las Vegas Chinatown has so many Asian restaurants. We went back there and tried Shanghai Taste for lunch. We had 生煎包 (Pan Fried Dumpling) and a few other dishes. They all tasted as good as those in Shanghai. We liked them so much that we went back there the next day.

We tried several other food venues within the resort in the next couple of days. We also had more food at the Famous Foods Street Eats, and we found our favorites. The best one was the rice noodle with Chinese sausage, shrimp, and veggies at Googgle Man's Char Kuey Teow. Watching the chef cook the noodle in a big wok using the traditional fired stove right in front of us was fun. Too bad we didn't take any pictures. Roast Peking Duck & Steamed Rice Bowl at Fuhu Shack was also delicious. We kept going back to these two places. We found the touchscreens all over the food hall were easy to use to order the foods, contactless.

Cross from the resort, there are many small restaurants. One taco place around the corner called Tacos El Gordo was standing out. It seems always packed with customers, a lot busier than any other taco places. So we decided to give it try. It’s a fast food place. You wait in line, place your order, pick up your food and then pay at the cashier’s window. We didn’t understand most of the items on the menu. Since almost 99% customers were speaking Spanish, we couldn’t get much help from the other customers, so we just went for the most popular tacos. The wait was worth it and the tacos were delicious.

We had a great time in Las Vegas.