A blog about SoCal food and travel, with a spicy Asian flair
Marching along we’re adventurers/ Singing the song of adventurers/ Up or down, North, South, East, or West, an Adventurer’s life is best!
US citizens will need ETIAS to travel to any if the Shengen countries, starting in 2021: “What’s changing? Starting on Jan. 1, 2021, American citizens will have to register online, through the new European Travel Information and Authorization System, to enter any of the 26 Schengen-area countries, plus four countries currently in the process of joining the area, regardless of...
A stunning new restaurant at UTC mall. Can’t wait to try it. The bar itself looks amazing. The menu is sooooo expensive… $54 for a filet mignon with Chipotle sauce… Trying to come up with a reason, an excuse, an occasion, to justify going here.
Very cosy inside and excellent tuna salad. The chicken enchilada sauce was a bit strange. We’ll try it again to see if we can find dishes we really love. If so it’ll be a good alternative to Breakfast Republic next door which tends to run an hour wait on the weekend. It gave me great pleasure to cancel my Breakfast...
Watching Netflix “Losers” and was quite captivated by the episode about Aliy Zirkle, a sled dog musher who’s run the Iditarod for decades, has never won, but came in second quite a few times. What distinguishes her, besides her will to compete, is her amazing relationship with her dogs. You’ll also hear a harrowing story about how, a few years...
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/disney-star-wars-galaxys-edge-preview/index.html “But if you want to take advantage of the one exception to the otherwise nonalcoholic Disneyland, you can have a Fuzzy Tauntaun, a Yub Nub rum punch, an Outer Rim margarita, a blue Jedi Mind Trick and a cloudy, bubbling pink Bespin Fizz, among others, in the cantina.” https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/star-wars-hotel-disney-world/index.html
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/hp-is-still-being-disrupted-by-the-internet-in-2019-2019-02-27 “HP seemed to be taken by surprise that customers buy their printing supplies online, where they said they have less of the market and pricing isn’t to HP’s benefit. “We’re now engaging on a new battlefield and it’s called ‘online,’” Chief Executive Dion Weisler said, giving some listeners of a certain age flashbacks to the late 1990s.”
Reputedly the beat Thai in Denver, Thai Pot was below average by San Diego standards. The best dish was the Chicken Krapow. Spicy level 10 was just right. The Pad See Ewe came with beef even though Mr A asked for chicken, and it was a bit tasteless. The wonton soup was 8.5/10 according to Ms S – the wontons...
20 to 50deg F: tshirt, long sleeve shirt, insulation layer (heavy fleece or down), shell. I wore a fleece and a down vest. Mr A worse a heavy fleece under a padded shell. Leggings under jeans, wool socks, winter boots (no sneakers). Also, gloves, scarf, hat. Below 20deg F: we don’t know how to winter that cold. Scarf and hat...
Love me some diner food. Enormous menu, enormous portions, hot and cold food, and desserts! Mr A liked his turkey club and red chili, Ms S liked her chocolate chip pancakes, I liked my BBBBBLAT (5 Bs because 5 strip of bacon!). Old fashioned wraparound counter. A little bit like Hamura Saimin in Kauai! Inexpensive, too.
Just looking for a quick bite on Pearl Street mall, on the way out of town after a college tour at CU Boulder. We all had bento boxes. The tempura was well made. My salmon was fresh. They even state the brand of Japanese rice they use (Tamanishiki) which was excellent, sticky and chewy. Not bad for Colorado…
Just a quick few details, it was the end of a long day and we were hungry and tired. Nice assortment of eateries; a few gourmet sandwich shops, a chicken roaster, fish place, ice cream, chocolate shop, Bakery. Ms S loved her chicken tacos from the chicken place. 4.5 stars to High Point Creamery ice cream whose fudge sauce was...
– Cosy basement environs – Great service – Great wine – it was Italian, believe it was the Aia Vecchia Lagone ($12), it’s described as Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon. A nice mild cabernet, not oaky, somewhat akin to the Daou Cabernet we’ve been drinking a lot of. We ordered one and ended up ordering a second. – Truly outstanding...
Test: Forget your wallet at home and use only your phone, equipped with Samsung Pay, to support yourself from 9am to 5pm. Result: fail 1) Poke place gave a “gateway error” 4x in a row. Could not pay at a POP that was otherwise known to be compatible; eventually got my lunch for free, as I was holding up the...
You’ve got to go thru hell before you get to heaven… Top photo: At least we got fed! Bottom photo: I am never going home! (Hotel Locanda Orseolo, Venice, IT)
Espresso, barely sweetened whipped cream, and finely chopped nuts. Life doesn’t have to be any more complicated than this. http://blog.restaurantsinflorence.com/desserts/hot-chocolate-in-florence/ “Rivoire Hours: Tue-Sun 8am-Midnight; Address: Piazza delle Signoria 5R, historical center of Florence. http://www.rivoire.it/ Also ranked favorably on Tripadvisor, Rivoire is a Florentine tradition for all things chocolate and considered by many the BEST in town. I personally don’t hold...
Pretty happy with the contrast of the dark borders with the quilt top. I’ve been admiring the quilt blocks tonight and the design key I think is the diamond shape made up of 16 postage stamps. If it’s made if a strong fabric then it really identifies the block: and then in between those blocks, at the “4 corners” where...
… is what Barney Rubble called it. In one of my previous lives working for a major consumer electronics company, our business trips to Singapore/Malaysia put us at the Singapore Shangri-La hotel on Orchard Road. I had never stayed at a hotel this luxurious in my entire life but I took to it like a duck to water. I didn’t...
Mario Roll – battered yellowtail, crab and shrimp tempura inside, eel sauce and spicy sauce on top. Meaty, crunchy, and spicy. Better than the crunchy roll. And then when you also get someone’s leftover tempura, even better! We can all feel sorry for Mr A who is still slogging thru a 2nd month of Medifast: (insert sad trombone noise) Not...
I discarded the dark green block and made two more in mid to light tones. Now I have tan, lavender, green, and blue blocks: When sewn together, they look like this: Now we’re ready to add the borders to the top. The blocks above will be used in very corners. And again through the magic of PhotoGrid I can visualize...
Why Girls Beat Boys at School and Lose to Them at the Office https://nyti.ms/2DYFnj2 “We can also encourage girls toward a different approach to school — one that’s more focused on economy of effort, rather than how many hours they put in. Whenever one of the academically impressive and persistently anxious girls in my practice tells me about staying up...
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I love discovery, adventure, and the unexpected and my partner loves points and miles. Based in San Diego, our goal is to reach every continent, World Heritage Site, and Disneyland park…and everything in between. This blog is our trail of breadcrumbs. Join us…and Kungaloosh!