This year to celebrate Mutha’s Day, we procured a whole roasted piggy. To serve alongside that, we had grilled golden pompano, steamed mussels, green mango salad with shrimp, Hawaiian mac salad, garlic bokchoy. For apps, Jen brought SPAM musubi & tuna poke. Cait made a lovely plate of homemade hummus & pita breads. For desert, …
Category Archives: Family
New Family Member
We got the news on Sunday that while in LA Tami gave birth to, to… uh since he was early they didn’t even have a name picked out. So we are proud of our new nephew… whatever his name is, uh Baby Yuen!
Cait/Kat Dim Sum
This morning we got together in Milpitas at ABC Seafood for a Dim Sum celebration of Cait & Kathy’s birthday.
Tuesday Dining
Had to work in San Jose so I gave Jon a call and he took me out to Orenchi Ramen. It was so good. Later in the evening, Arlene met us in the City. We had a Cuban dinner at Cha Cha Cha. The Lechon Asado was great. I was so food focused today I …
Honolulu March 2011
Work calls again in Honolulu. I usually don’t make the effort to eat well as I hate eating alone and am usually too tired to call anyone. This time I made an effort to break some of my habits and made dinner commitments. I flew in Tuesday about noon and worked until 5:30 (13 hr …
Just nifty @ 50
Today I turned 50 and if you would have asked me 20 years ago, I probably thought I’d be dead by now. We dropped Mommi off @ SFO and then quickly shuttled on over to Lake Chalet for lunch. We had a quiet dinner just the 2 of us. Sandy made me a smoked salmon …
PreBirthday Dinner
As Mommi & Bengie are leaving tomorrow we went out and celebrated my birthday with a dinner at Il Fornaio courtesy of Bengie. Prawns, gnocchi, pork chop wrapped with pork, lobster ravioli & tiramisu… While it wasn’t like the food in Italy it still gave me that overstuffed feeling on the drive back home.
Barin mini reunion
Mommi & Bengie flew in tonight. Sandy had corned beef in slow cooker all day. We dined on it for dinner.
Weekend
Had a pretty lazy weekend, ate out, mowed the lawn. Oh but we did manage to go a birthday party for Beth. Here’s some random stuff…
LA adventures
Had some training in the home office (I haven’t been there in 3 yrs). Later we had a short visit with my Ma. The tonkotsu ramen at Ramen Yamadaya was to die for… I got mine with a big slab of pork belly. I also had a chance to revisit one of my favorite pastrami …