{"id":3537,"date":"2009-02-14T09:19:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T13:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=3537"},"modified":"2009-02-14T10:32:07","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T14:32:07","slug":"february-13th-2009-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2009\/02\/february-13th-2009-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"February 13th, 2009: Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

I almost wore a skirt last night but then changed and dressed up a pair of dark jeans instead.\u00a0 I was cold, it was chilly outside, and I didn’t want to risk being cold in the restaurant, so jeans it was!\u00a0 With a smoking top introducing the girls and a pair of black boots.\u00a0 Do any of you like this stuff or should I just bust right to the food? ;)\u00a0\u00a0 By the time Scott and I headed over to the restaurant, I was starving.\u00a0 Close to hangry<\/a> and the shakes but not quite there yet.<\/p>\n

The hostess told us it would be about a 30minute wait and gave us this crazy pager.\u00a0 It looked sort of like an old school taser and when it went off it talked to you!\u00a0 Not just buzzing, but an additional, “Your table is now ready.\u00a0 Your table is now ready.”\u00a0 For the record, I hate when electronics talk to me, it creeps me right the hell out.<\/p>\n

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all purty <\/p><\/div>\n

We passed the time taking some pics of us and then our table was ready!\u00a0 We honestly couldn’t have been waiting more than 10 minutes if that.\u00a0 First order of business was a Japanese beer to split.<\/p>\n

\"kickin'

kickin' it with a 40, yo<\/p><\/div>\n

And they brought out a 40 bottle.\u00a0 Oh yeah, we were are rocking in style now! It also wasn’t an even split, Scott had more than I did.<\/p>\n

\"mmmm\"

mmmm<\/p><\/div>\n

We also ordered some appetizers.\u00a0 I didn’t get a menu pic of the shrimp dumplings.\u00a0 Sorry ’bout that.<\/p>\n

\"shrimp

shrimp on left, pancakes on right <\/p><\/div>\n

Some steamed shrimp dumplings and a fried vegetable and potato pancake to split.<\/p>\n

\"flipping

flipping chopsticks <\/p><\/div>\n

I will tell you this right now, I cannot use chopsticks to save my soul. I very awkwardly used my flipping chopsticks to eat the appetizer. And it never fails that Scott will try to “help” me every flipping time I come in contact with chopsticks. Then I get exasperated and say that I don’t need his stinkin’ Asian-Fu to help me with my chopsticks (Can you picture this scene? Let me help.).<\/p>\n

\"lovely,

lovely, no?<\/p><\/div>\n

And then I pout because I can’t use them properly.\u00a0 What can I say kids, I’m Polish and we generally use forks, fingers, and big honkin’ knives to eat.\u00a0 I will tell you that even though it might have been awkward, I did use the chopsticks the entire time I ate the appetizers!\u00a0 The fact that there was no other utensils around and our server was MIA does not factor in at all.<\/p>\n

I didn’t care for the shrimp dumplings too much.\u00a0 They were just okay but a little on the super mushy side.\u00a0 The veggie potato pancake I loved!\u00a0 It was like a mashed potato puff with veggies and a crust!\u00a0 Awesome!\u00a0 That I could dip in a tangy BBQ sauce, even more awesome!\u00a0 I thought it was going to be more like shredded potato with veggies so I was surprised at the mashed.\u00a0 Scott didn’t like it which was fine, more for me!\u00a0 So we swapped, I took the pancakes and he took the dumplings.\u00a0 I had 1.5 pancakes.\u00a0 Which were sitting on a bed of shredded cabbage that then I piled on my wee plate, topped with the BBQ sauce, and ate like an animal.\u00a0 Was that wrong?\u00a0 I have no shame in eating garnishes if they are edible and I said as much to Scott as I was stuffing my face.\u00a0 The cabbage?\u00a0 No problem eating that with the chopsticks.\u00a0 Nice large pieces of food not so much, but small stringy cabbage, easy peasy.\u00a0 Go figure.\u00a0 Then our food arrived, hooray!<\/p>\n

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description <\/p><\/div>\n

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Photo presentation <\/p><\/div>\n

I got yaki udon, which is a dish we ordered the last time we were there and a gift from the gods because it is amazing.\u00a0 There is plenty of veggie (of course there could be more but that’s just me being picky), little bits of chicken that are bite size and not something you have to wrestle with to try and cut or make smaller with improper implements.\u00a0 And it is jam packed with crazy flavor!\u00a0 It was at this point I asked for a fork because there was no way I could manage this dish with chopsticks.\u00a0 And my server brought me out this little tiny baby fork, smaller than even a salad fork.\u00a0 :p\u00a0 I should have gotten a shot of it!<\/p>\n

\"fail

fail <\/p><\/div>\n

Then I scolded my chopsticks for being such a pain in my ass and isolated them to a corner of the table.<\/p>\n

\"deep

deep breaths <\/p><\/div>\n

And because punishing them hurts me more than it does them, I had to calm my nerves.<\/p>\n

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photo presentation <\/p><\/div>\n

Scott got some sort of noodle dish with seafood.\u00a0 I tried a bite and it was okay but didn’t have quite as much flavor as I thought it was going to.<\/p>\n

\"spicy

spicy tuna <\/p><\/div>\n

He also got some spicy tuna of which I picked off some of the rice because I like that part.\u00a0 Not too much though because they didn’t have a whole lot of rice on them to start with.<\/p>\n

I ate half of my udon and saved the rest to bring home.\u00a0 Scott loved his sushi, said they make the best.\u00a0 And that’s why we went there for his b-day dinner, he loves that place.\u00a0 And I do too, it’s not expensive, you get awesome food and the portions are decent sized.<\/p>\n

\"mmmm

mmmm honey porter <\/p><\/div>\n

Then we came home to relax!\u00a0 He busted open a honey porter and I had a few sips as we were sitting on the couch watching TV.\u00a0 We started to watch a comedy show but the guy was horrible.\u00a0 Holy cow he was not funny at all so we nixed it.\u00a0 Then we watched Heroes, the first epi when it came back after break.\u00a0 I don’t care for that show but Scott is still harboring hope it will get good again, so I watch it while hanging with him.\u00a0 He’s a good guy for putting up with me because I roll my eyes a lot and curse at the TV, most especially at Claire because she is so dumb and annoying.\u00a0 And way too made up, yikes!\u00a0 Why do they put so much makeup on her, she certainly doesn’t need it.\u00a0 And at 10:30 I called it a night and headed to bed!<\/p>\n

Looking back, there is not enough pics of Scott in this post!\u00a0 We are going to have to start working on getting more photos of us I think. :D<\/p>\n

Today though is going to be an exciting day filled with yummy food!\u00a0 There’s leftovers and then super special stuff for tonight! :D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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