High Pearl – Crispy Fried Large Intestines

I’ve posted a number of times about High Pearl, so this time I only took a photograph of one dish – though the other two dishes we ordered are things I’ve never posted here, whoops! (two noodles dishes; when I go to High Pearl with my brother, we inevitably eat rice with our dishes, so noodles aren’t ordered, but I went with just FeistyMom this time and she was like, order whatever you want, so I totally did! Seafood crispy pan fried noodles and wet fried beef broad white noodles, yum!) – the last time I went to High Pearl [...]

Tomo Japanese Cuisine

Sometimes, when I get an idea in my head, I become fixated on it and that’s all that can be done, no way around it… and so it was recently when I decided I wanted sushi/sashimi on Lunar New Year (February 3rd this year).  Time constraints being what they were – I had tickets to see Al Pacino in Merchant of Venice that night – I quickly ordered some takeout sashimi from a local place that a friend mentioned as being yummy.  Even more yummy?  All sashimi/sushi a la carte was $1/piece, including uni and toro!  Unfortunately, they didn’t have [...]

Boon Chu Thai Place

One recent day after a quick jaunt with a friend through my local Asian supermarket, I realized I was starving, and decided we should head over to nearby Boon Chu – bypassing both Pho Bang and High Pearl, two of my favorite area restaurants.  I’ve visited and posted about Boon Chu twice before, but always find myself at Pho Bang or High Pearl; I forget that Boon Chu is just another block away.  Oops!Bottle of water given to us so we could drink as much water as we wanted – nice touch, as in my first review from just over [...]

Outback Steakhouse

You may not know this, but I’m pretty close to BF’s family – especially his dad, whom I affectionately refer to as “Pop” or “PopPop”.  I love the man dearly, though his taste in food is about as limited as possible, and at his behest, the family gathered recently for dinner at Outback in Queens Place.  I decided to take pictures because… well, why not?  My argument over chain restaurants has been stated, restated, and continues to stand.  Since I seem to have some new-ish readers to the blog, though, I’ll toss it out again: I don’t detest chain restaurants.  [...]

Ten Years Has Gone So Fast

As with every year, shortly after celebrating life, we celebrate death.  Well, perhaps commemorate instead of celebrate, though we do wind up sharing a lot of laughs, maybe a few tears, stories about my father’s life, my father’s death, the beginning, the end, the middle… but always, good food.  Good food will always bring and keep my family together.  And so it was, this chilly Halloween evening, that we gathered at his favorite restaurant, and ordered some of his favorite dishes, and feasted together.  Some things have changed, and some things haven’t.  Under the watchful gaze of my mother, we [...]

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