{"id":2674,"date":"2009-01-09T22:03:12","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T02:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2009-01-09T22:03:12","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T02:03:12","slug":"january-9th-2009-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2009\/01\/january-9th-2009-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"January 9th, 2009: Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi guys!\u00a0 We met our friends last night at a sushi and Korean restaurant.\u00a0 Yup you read that right.\u00a0 The name is The Japanese Oriental Restaurant. :p\u00a0 They were cool with me taking pics, hooray!<\/p>\n

Earlier in the afternoon I got a little hungry so I munched on this:<\/p>\n

\"crispy<\/a>

crispy crunchy <\/p><\/div>\n

1 carrot and a sliced gala apple.\u00a0 Mmm!\u00a0 Some of the apple went to Scott.\u00a0 And then it was time for me to get ready for dinner out, woo!<\/p>\n

We arrived a little late because we couldn’t find where to park.\u00a0 We are so not city suavvy people and this restuant was in the city and by the university so parking and streets were very compact.\u00a0 I called our friends and asked them where they parked and they said right in front!\u00a0 That didn’t occur to us because there were construction barrels everywhere.\u00a0 But I guess you could go in between them and park along the front of the restaurant so that’s what we did.<\/p>\n

I totally forgot to snap a picture of us and I am bummed because I looked su-pah cute!\u00a0 With my lil sweater and collared shirt, I was stylin’ it.<\/p>\n

The restaurant, to me didn’t have too much to offer.\u00a0 Or at least that’s how it seemed because the descriptions of the food weren’t great.\u00a0 I wanted a noodle veggie dish but there were no veggie options.\u00a0 So my next idea was to order some sort of noodle chicken dish and ask for extra veggies.\u00a0 Um, I couldn’t find a noodle chicken dish.\u00a0 So I went with teriyaki chicken and veggies.\u00a0 I was going to ask for extra veggies but did not and I’m glad I didn’t.\u00a0 You’ll see why in a sec. ;)<\/p>\n

For starters our friends got the fried tofu and they let us have a wee sample of it.<\/p>\n

\"tofu<\/a>

tofu <\/p><\/div>\n

That’s our friend Craig showing off his mad chopstick skillz.\u00a0 It was so yummy!\u00a0 I can’t even explain to you how they made this dish but there were bits of veggies and onions in the tofu.\u00a0 And the sauce was an amazing spicy sweet sauce.\u00a0 Almost like a General Tso’s type of sauce.\u00a0 I only had one wee bite.<\/p>\n

\"Not<\/a>

Not very interesting photowise <\/p><\/div>\n

My appetizer I ordered was tempura veggies.\u00a0 I have never had tempura before other than small frozen food snacks you can find at the grocery store.\u00a0 There was sweet potato, zucchini, some sort of squash (I think acorn), and onions.\u00a0 I had 1 zucchini, 1 squash, and 1 sweet potato.\u00a0 It was just okay, nothing to write home about.<\/p>\n

\"my<\/a>

my dinner<\/p><\/div>\n

Here’s my main course.\u00a0 Are you loving the diced carrots and peas as my “vegetables”?\u00a0 There’s also some corn and two green bean pieces.\u00a0 I totally forgot about the mushrooms! Probably because I gave those to Scott.\u00a0 Andrea don’t eat fungus, yo.\u00a0 But don’t the veggies look straight out of a frozen veggie medley bag? :lol:\u00a0 I’m glad I didn’t ask for extra!\u00a0 And there’s also some rice, no option for steamed brown.\u00a0 I ate most everything save for two of the chicken teriyaki fingers.<\/p>\n

I had water with my meal.\u00a0 And we chit-chatted for a bit but it seemed like traffic was picking up and there were people waiting so we didn’t linger long.\u00a0 And that was our evening! :D<\/p>\n

I was a little flustered since this was my first time taking pictures in front of people so I didn’t get any of the menu, the restaurant, or of us.\u00a0 Boo on me!\u00a0 Next time though I should be more at ease.<\/p>\n

Sadly I didn’t like my meal or the restaurant much but that’s okay.\u00a0 Never know unless you try!<\/p>\n

I may need a snack but for now I’m off to sit on the couch and hang with my boys.\u00a0 See you tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi guys!\u00a0 We met our friends last night at a sushi and Korean restaurant.\u00a0 Yup you read that right.\u00a0 The name is The Japanese Oriental Restaurant. :p\u00a0 They were cool with me taking pics, hooray! Earlier in the afternoon I got a little hungry so I munched on this: 1 carrot and a sliced gala […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-H8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}