Archive for the 'Food' category
The third day in Bangkok
I haven’t been to Thailand at all since 4.5 years ago. Bangkok changed a lot. It became a cosmopolitan city. It’s still great. I ever considered to move to Bangkok few years ago. This idea is still in my mind. Thailand is my comfort zone, a city of joy for me!
Tom Yum Kung noodle is always my favorite…..I found a street filled with casual food stores nearby my hotel. It was excellent around by such delicious food stores.
Black Friday
A day for Shopping!! Oh well, I already shopped enough in Miami, so I didn’t do much shopping in San Francisco. I didn’t find things particular bargain on Black Friday anyway.
We went to have a gorgeous seafood lunch in Swan Seafood Depot, which is a family run store located on Polk Street more than 30 years. It’s a well known place for raw oysters, and it’s unbelievable delicious.
We spent an hour for queue up….
Everyone sat by the counter with long queue behind their back. Many were so pleased to wait for hours and hours.
We had raw oysters and clams. Their clam chowder tasted strong flavour of clam. It’s very fresh.
The crab Louis salad is just too tasty to be true. I couldn’t resist their raw scallop.
We passed by China Town when we were in the cable car.
Lafayette
I quite love this town, Lafayette, where my cousin lives. It’s a small place with some country stores. There are many nice and small cafes around the area. I even found Trader Joes just right opposite my cousin’s house. I love this supermarket. They have so much to offer especially their organic juice, dark chocolate and pop corn!! I did quite a shopping in there for stuff I brought to Hong Kong.
Thanksgiving Day
It’s my first Thanksgiving in the U.S. I had never thought that I would spend Halloween and Thanksgiving in the U.S. but I did it in 2009. Things always happen without your expectation.
We went to Golden Bridge in the morning, and had a great Thanksgiving dinner in my cousin’s house in Lafayette at night. Husband of my cousin is a great cook. He cooked us a fantastic Thanksgiving meal. It was indeed a lovely Thanksgiving Day!!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!
A 20 pounds roast turkey!!
Homemade desserts!!!
Non stop being under the Miami sun and eating delicious food
Be honest, I feel a little bored here during the weekend. I had been most of the places and found nowhere to go. Too bad that I can’t drive otherwise, I can drive to somewhere far. I have to stay here until almost end of November. I miss my dance class and my usual weekend activities. I just can’t do them for two months!!! Anyway, I am fine, but just feel tired with works and many kind of things happening lately….
Long time no eat…
I don’t mean that I didn’t have Chinese food for long but the delivery food YES! I am not really a VERY CHINESE person who needs to eat Chinese meal everyday. In fact, rice and noodles are not something necessary for my diet. I was so curious what the Chinese food tastes like in Miami, so I decided to order food delivery tonight. Needless to say, nothing tastes good…. I am not surprise as here is not San Francisco or Los Angeles. It made me to think of those Chinese take away stores when I lived in Seafood, England. Usually, you can find delicious Chinese food in decent Chinese restaurants of big cities such as New York, London, Manchester, Cambridge, and even Brighton. Western style Chinese food is common in small cities, or in cities without majority of Chinese population like Miami.
Anyway, I am not so into them. I ordered Shezhun style scallop with rice and hot and sour soup, but really far from original. The Shenzhun dish tastes sweet, not spicy, and the soup just tastes strange….lol
Well tried….Joyce Lee! You are brave!!…;-)
I like the paper box that keeps rice. It looks cute!!
Lunch
I have the same menu everyday for lunch. I totally run out of ideas what I should eat as I tried most of the food on the menu already. I also don’t know why we only have one menu for lunch…..???
Lunch with steaks everyday!
My colleagues love steaks. Therefore, they order me steaks almost everyday. In fact, there are not many choices on the menu for food delivery. They are always pizzas, salad, sandwich and some Cuban food. My colleagues hate pizza, well I am not big with it anyway. One of the best choices should be steak sandwich in Cuban style and chicken salad.
A little Latino cafe
The most interesting thing I found in Miami is that you can find Latino culture in every single corner. This little Latino cafe did catch my eyes. I like the decoration. It’s vintage. I like the music, and I love their MONCA!! It’s nothing like Starbuck quality, I mean much better, and ABSOLUTELY UNFORGETTABLE!! I felt like sitting in a cafe during 50s, and in somewhere South America.
Food, food, food….
My beloved French soup…I didn’t have it since my last visit in Miami…
My first Japanese meal in Miami…amazingly good!! Interesting that they don’t have chopsticks, so it’s first time to eat sushi with fork. They made sushi the same way as those in Japan, very traditional I am surprise. They just don’t eat with soy sauce, that’s!
