On Thursday, Sarah had another lil' party to showcase her burgeoning culinary skills. If I recall correctly, this was fetticine in a walnut-cream sauce. Outstanding!
Attempt number 2 was a success! Here's my first Thanksgiving as a vegetarian! Mom cooked me (er, microwaved me) a special meat-less meal and even made me some vegetarian stuffing! Thanks, mom!
On Sunday night the boys from Apartment took us all out to a fancy Italian dinner to thank us all for putting them up in our aparments. Here's David, Sarah and Tom getting ready to chow down.
If you live in NYC and you like pizza, go to L'asso right now. Seriously, check out these fucking pies. Unbelievable. It's one of my favorite restaurants in New York (and the prices are awesomely reasonable).
For dinner, we all went to this awesome all-you-can eat buffet place that's right around the corner from my parent's house called Ming Dynasty. It's pretty much the most food I've ever seen at a restaurant ever.
Friday night, Meredith and I headed down to the Jersey shore to hang out with my parent's at their little shore house down there. Reststop Pizza Hut on the way down. Greasetastic!
Friday morning I took the Fatty out for some delicous pad thai to thank him for helping me move, then I headed downtown to meet up with Niki so we could do some...
Before hopping on the train to head to Yuka's shore house, I finally made good on my promise to experience another item off of McDonald's "weird foreign items" menu. Let's hear it for the Club House Mac! (It was exactly like a regular Big Mac except it was topped with a fried egg and a few slices of bacon! Which basically means that if my little brother ever reads this entry, there's like a 90% chance he'll be moving to Japan in the near future).
Korean street food snacktime! Dduk-bok-kee and these awesome egg sandwiches that they sell all over Korea. It's like an omelet made with onions and Korean vegetables, and then they mix in ketchup, mayo, a tablespoon of sugar and serve it up on fried bread! I asked the vendor what it was called, excited to learn a new Korean snack food, and then she told me it was called "Eggu toastu." Hahah.
Well, if you guessed "Peanut Buttered Roast Squid," you are CORRECT, sir! (I literally blew my kids' minds when I told them I didn't like the peanut buttered squid. They were like "Why teacher, why? It's sooooo good!"
...I decided to sample some of the local amusement park delicacies. I was craving a funnel cake, but couldn't find one so I ended up having to settle for this. Can you use the illustrations on the box to guess the tasty treat inside? (The answer was in English on the reverse side).
8am breakfast the next morning. Here's where I learned that in Korea, they include that pink Spam-type meat in pretty much everything. I had a cheese sandwich, then went back up...
Yay, free lunch in the Google cafeteria! Check out Emily laughing at my disgusting assortment of food. (I pretty much took a serving from each of the 9 or so lunch stations.).
After getting off in Tribecca, I managed to convince Grant to forego Mandarin Court (which had been our dim sum place for years) in order to try an all-veggie dim sum place.
If you've never been, shabu shabu restaurants have these bowls filled with broth that are countersunk into the table. You order a plate of "main ingredients," like vegetables, or beef, chicken, etc...and then you go to this huge salad bar type-thing and get all sorts of other vegetables and condiments (eggs, hot sauce, garlic).
March 12th! Happy Birthday Brother Brett! Woooooooooo! I met up with Sarah and Karen for some Mexi-brunch and in honor of my brother's birthday I decided to get a steak for breakfast. (Brett would've wanted it that way).
On Thursday afternoon Grant and I met up for lunch at the Homestyle Cafe (where we pretty much ate lunch together every single day for like 2 years when we worked at Nerve.com / Spring Street). He had a meeting later that week with his friend that's now an editor and Glamour and I was going to try to help him brainstorm and come up wtih story ideas he could pitch.
Ever the intrepid fast-food connoisseur, I eschewed some of the finer Estonian eateries and opted instead to check out (Estonia's very own??) HESS BURGER. Mmmm...tastes just like home, except, um, different and deliciously weird. After I finished eating I noticed it was starting to get dark so I went back to Vana Tom to read for a while and take a little nappity nap.
Most people talk smack abouit airline food, but let me tell you, in the *front * of the plane, it's the shit. This meal right here was the best food I'd had in a year.
On Friday afternoon, I took the train up north to Woodstock, NY to visit my good friend David F. (who I've known since I was 13 years old!). We ate a nice meal at some fancy Italian place...
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