Train ride

Short time lapse capture of part of the train ride home with some beautiful urban artwork.

Lunch 5/28/08

This is from the Curry House in Downtown LA. It is japanese curry. I had the curry rice set which comes with soup, salad, rice, a choice of shrimp, beef, or chicken curry and fried shrimp. I went with the mild beef curry today.

Lunch 5/23/08

Had lunch at a great ramen joint, yes ramen, not the freeze dried stuff that's sold at 10 pack for $1 but fresh stuff made with awesome soup and karabuto pork, pretty much the kobe beef version of pork. The place is called Daikokuya in downtown LA. Three pictures of the soup made normally with the scallions and the way my wife likes it, sans scallions and of the pot stickers, gyoza, which were so so.

New Office Brewer

I actually got this at the beginning of the year, but only got around to taking pics of it now. It would really help if I would roast too, haven't done that in about a month, so it's been sitting on my desk gathering dust for a few weeks now. Will eventually get to roast some more beans soon though and put this puppy to good work. It's a melitta pour over brewer with a swiss gold filter. Nice easy set up, very easy to clean, and results in a nice cup with an oily surface. Woo hoo.

Intelligentsia

Made it out to Intelligentsia in Silverlake here in LA. Been there three times. Had an iced americano, good, regular americano, good, and a cappuccino, good. What I liked was my cappuccino was served in an appropriate sized cup. When I get a cappuccino at The Klatch, it's served in the same sized cup as a latte and there's the same amount of liquid in each cup. Difference? None that I know of, unless the barista's just made me an 12 ounce cappuccino, with three ounces of espresso, it's a latte. But at Intelligentsia, they serve a cappuccino in a 3 or 4 ounce sized cup. Cute little things. Sorry about the picture, but I had to erase the ugly background I had going on (must think composition when I take pictures). I also should have used something else to get a better sense of scale, but the big cup's a regular sized cup, 8 or so ounces, and the little cute thing's the 3 to 4 ounce cappa cup.

Dinner 5/3/2008

Went to a fancy restaurant for our 5th year anniversary. Usually when we go to a fancy pricey dinner, I automatically go for the lobster dish. This time though, my wife talked me into getting the lamb dish. I'd never had lamb before, and she herself doesn't like lamb, but she convinced me to get it by reasoning that at least it'll be guaranteed to be made well at a place like this. But then again it would be a very expensive mistake if I didn't like it.

Was eyeballing that Maine Lobster dish but went for the Trio of Colorado Lamb.







What I ordered. Dove into the ratatouille before I remembered to snap the picture. Would I like lamb?



5 minutes later. Needless to say, I like lamb. Okay, maybe 10 minutes later. Maybe. I gave my wife a piece thinking that this stuff was awesome, there's no way she wouldn't like it. She didn't like it. More for me!