Today we met Aunty Amy, Cait, Chris, Tami & Noah at the Blue Dot Cafe & Coffee Bar for a late breakfast. Then we brought Aunty Amy to the local farmers market and we walked away with a carnivorous orchid which I have yet to ID. While photographing the orchid, I happened to look down …
Category Archives: Food
Honolulu Oct 2011
Semi annual maintenance is what brought me to the islands this time. Or maybe it was the ramen. For whatever reason lately I’ve been on this ramen kick and my photos reflect this trend. I finally got my free cup of coffee from the Honolulu Coffee Company, it only took 2 years to accomplish this. …
Lake Tahoe 2011
We finally went up to Lake Tahoe after putting it off for so many months. Other than the beauty of the area we wanted to visit Jimi & Amy (Maverick too). Unfortunately for us Amy was down in the bay area and Jimi’s availability was limited, so we made the best of the Tahoe scene …
NEX nite
We met up with Jim & Kelly tonight at NEX in Oakland. The pressed watermelon salad was excellent as was the duck confit. I don’t have a small camera anymore so I had to make do with iPad photos. We really should do this more often.
Little House
This morning we met the Yuen’s for a late breakfast at the Little House Cafe‘.
Vietnamese 7 courses of beef
After the Chocolate Festival, Teddy & Christine took us out to Anh Hong Restaurant. As usual I got so excited by the food, I forgot to photograph it.
Ghiradelli Chocolate Festival
Today we ventured into the city via AC Transit, then took the Muni F line to the Ghiradelli Chocolate Festival. The stand out for me was the Chocolate Vodka!
Ramen Quest #4
Today I met Jon for lunch. We ate at Santouka in the Mitsuwa Shopping Center. Funny we both got the #4 salt ramen.
Leftovers
I found some of Daddy’s leftover steak and since neither one of us got to eat it yesterday I made a steak, broiled mushroom & quail egg salad for dinner. Had to follow this up with a Chocolate martini.
Labor Intensive 2011
As it is customary we celebrated Labor Day at our place. We had the family over armed with appetizers and we served a smoked duck appetizer as well. On the menu kalua pork with pechay, grilled ribs, steak salad. Kathy brought over a tofu salad. For desert Aunty Janet brought a great high calorie Okinawan …