{"id":7416,"date":"2009-08-03T10:07:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T14:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=7416"},"modified":"2009-08-03T10:52:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T14:52:16","slug":"august-2nd-2009-review-j-lius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2009\/08\/august-2nd-2009-review-j-lius\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2nd, 2009: Review: J. Liu’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi guys!\u00a0 We hit the Irish Festival late yesterday evening.\u00a0 We arrived maybe going on 5pm and walked around for about an hour or so.\u00a0 There were so many things and booths to see it was a little overwhelming.\u00a0 I learned some history about Scott’s last name and also that the local Irish dance troops sure do love their super curly wigs.<\/p>\n

Both of us were hungry upon entering the fair but I honestly wasn’t looking to eat fair food.\u00a0 While I love me some sausage and ‘kraut every so often, last night was not one of those nights.\u00a0 Once we got our fill of the fair, we headed out to get something to eat.<\/p>\n

Surprisingly a lot of the restaurants in downtown Dublin were closed.\u00a0 It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a restaurant closed on a Sunday.\u00a0 One place that was open was J. Liu’s<\/a>. Be forewarned there is music on the website that will start playing immediately.<\/p>\n

\"Sign<\/a><\/p>\n

We’ve been meaning to try it out for ages and last night was the perfect opportunity.\u00a0 It was a great evening so we got to take advantage of the patio seating.\u00a0 The one drawback to the outdoor seating is the road noise.\u00a0 It can be a little hard to hear with the traffic buzzing along.<\/p>\n

Scott was highly Hangry<\/a> even though he will tell you that he clearly was not.\u00a0 Which is a big indicator that he was.\u00a0 Follow?\u00a0 We decided against appetizers and went straight for meals.<\/p>\n

\"Me<\/a>I don’t know what’s going on with the droopy eyed looking I’m sporting in that pic.\u00a0 I decided on a glass of merlot to go with my meal.<\/p>\n

\"Me\"<\/a>Here’s me getting frustrated with Scott.\u00a0 I’m complaining that I never know when he’s going to take a picture so I feel like I’m smiling for 10 minutes. The whole time wondering what he’s doing.<\/p>\n

\"Me\"<\/a>He said he does that on purpose and this is my, “You’re a bastard.” look.\u00a0 Check out the guy behind me, he thinks the same thing! :p<\/p>\n

\"Scott<\/a><\/p>\n

Scott ordered a mango margarita which was potent indeed.<\/p>\n

\"House<\/a><\/p>\n

I started off with a house salad with actual mixed greens!\u00a0 Hooray!\u00a0 And tomatoes, cucumbers, red onion, green pepper, sunflower seeds, and some gorgonzola all topped with a balsamic dressing.\u00a0 It was seriously good and I kicked that whole thing.<\/p>\n

\"Chicken<\/a><\/p>\n

Scott started off with chicken tortilla soup, which was the soup of the day.\u00a0 I had a few bites and it was also very good.\u00a0 He mentioned that there wasn’t much chicken in it though and I said that would be perfect for me! :p\u00a0 I’d rather have more veg!<\/p>\n

\"Pasta<\/a><\/p>\n

For his main meal, Scott ordered the Pasta Diavolo.<\/p>\n

It had shrimp, chorizo, and roasted red peppers all in a spicy creamy tomato sauce.\u00a0 I had a few bites and it was delish!<\/p>\n

My main meal was the hoisin glazed salmon made with house-made hoisin sauce.\u00a0 It came with coconut basmati rice and ginger glazed carrots and snow peas.<\/p>\n

\"Hoisin<\/a><\/p>\n

Doesn’t it look pretty!\u00a0 The salmon was cooked to perfection and had great flavor.\u00a0 The hoisin wasn’t quite as flavorful as I thought it was going to be but it was still very good.\u00a0 The rice was very coconuty and fabulous!\u00a0 Even though I didn’t eat much of it, I enjoyed it.\u00a0 My only disappointment with this meal were the carrots and snow peas because I expected more! I was looking forward to a whole side of veggies and was a little bummed that there were only a few small bites.\u00a0 Those bites were great though!<\/p>\n

Would I get that dish again?\u00a0 Yes and maybe I would ask if I could some how get some more veggies. :D<\/p>\n

We fully enjoyed our time at J. Liu’s.\u00a0 We loved the laid back atmosphere paired with great food.\u00a0 Our server was awesome and checked in on us constantly which left us feeling taken care of.\u00a0 There was no rush either, everything was brought out in a leisurely manner allowing time for conversation and relaxation.\u00a0 If you’re in downtown Dublin and looking for a place to grab lunch or a nice cozy dinner, give J. Liu’s<\/a> a try!<\/p>\n

When we got back home, we took Rocky out for a walk and then it was jammie time!<\/p>\n

\"Red<\/a><\/p>\n

I had another glass of red while we watched TV and decided on how to spend the rest of the evening.\u00a0 We came to the conclusion that it had been far too long since we’ve seen Godsmack (one of our fave bands) so we watched a concert of theirs we taped.<\/p>\n

Scott opened a white and some vegan chocolate pudding made its way out of the fridge.<\/p>\n

\"Vegan<\/a><\/p>\n

I had a two sips of white and was done because it was horrible.\u00a0 I’ll just say it smelled like pot and leave it at that.\u00a0 Ugh.\u00a0 But it worked out because I didn’t need it anyway.\u00a0 I don’t do well with three glasses of wine. I was totally caught up in the moment of jamming out to Godsmack.\u00a0 “Oh yeah I’ll have another!”<\/p>\n

No, no, no.\u00a0 And it tasted bad and my body was like, “Um, no we’re not digging this.”\u00a0 and I listened.\u00a0 After the show,\u00a0 I hit the hay because I was one tired girlie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi guys!\u00a0 We hit the Irish Festival late yesterday evening.\u00a0 We arrived maybe going on 5pm and walked around for about an hour or so.\u00a0 There were so many things and booths to see it was a little overwhelming.\u00a0 I learned some history about Scott’s last name and also that the local Irish dance troops […]<\/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-1VC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416"}],"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=7416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}