Food, Food, and More Food Thread

littlemissfab wrote:
or at least salmon sushi with lots of kikkoman/wasabi would be good..

This sounds really yummy right now :mrgreen:

K.T.Tran wrote:

This sounds really yummy right now :mrgreen:

don't you think so?? i love the feeling that too much wasabi brings to my sinuses and my front temporal lobe.. it's a rush... hahahahaha..

tabana wrote:

Wakame is seaweed in japanese. It's basicaly "japanese clear soup" with small pieces of seaweed, a few small cube of tofu and some shitake mushrooms. Only 25 calories!

I'll have to wait 'till christmas to eat turkey. I could cook some, but I have no idea how to cook that thing... and I'll have to eat it for the next 2 months. :sweat:
I'll let my mom do the turkey cooking. In the meantime, I'll go with chicken. :)

that's like Miso soup, yummy.

Tonight's menu:

Roast turkey and gravy
Honeybaked ham
Homemade stuffing
Green bean casserole
Whole cranberry sauce
Rice :headscratch:
Apple pie
Pumpkin pie

Tonight I had.......

1 slice of Turkey breast
1 corn on the cob
1 scoop of rice
5 stuffed eggs (I can't help myself when it comes to eggs :beaten: )
1 Gau Gee

and 1 slice of pumpkin pie *mmm mmm good!*

ahochaude wrote:Tonight I had.......

1 slice of Turkey breast
1 corn on the cob
1 scoop of rice
5 stuffed eggs (I can't help myself when it comes to eggs :beaten: )
1 Gau Gee

and 1 slice of pumpkin pie *mmm mmm good!*

what's gau gee?

that's a lot of eggs... :hehe:

qilver wrote:

what's gau gee?

that's a lot of eggs... :hehe:

i had a bowl of turkey ramen with mashed potato gyoza....

Tu_triky wrote:

i had a bowl of turkey ramen with mashed potato gyoza....

there you go... :rofl:

qilver wrote:

there you go... :rofl:

:victory:


:hehe:

I tried to search for it, but the only thing I found is Hawaii related. Local delicacies?

Found a picture, looks like egg rolls...

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Now I'm hungry. :puppydog:

Stocked up on Boddies and Tetley's. Got popcorn. Ready for some marathon DVD watching... the pile is about three 100 pack spindles high and growing.

krim wrote:Stocked up on Boddies and Tetley's. Got popcorn. Ready for some marathon DVD watching... the pile is about three 100 pack spindles high and growing.

wow, you got as much as dochira.

what are you going to watch first.

i am watching a bit of Kikenna aneki(dangerous beauty), starring Misaki Itou, and Yumiko Shaku. :bonk:

Went to another sushi bar with my brother and sister-in-law... Good eats. :thumbsup:

some good food the last couple of days, also lots of dishes to clean afterwards.

sure glad i run for exercise and usually burn off all these extra calories. sure go for some japanese food.... :thumbsup:

From the Los Angeles Times:

http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/cl-wk-critic24nov24,0,3592152.story?coll=cl-calendar

Creme de la creme of chain-store puffs
Beard Papa, a voluminous Japanese-based chain, opens at the Hollywood & Highland Center.

By S. Irene Virbila
Times Staff Writer
November 24, 2005

From the name, it could be a jazz club, but it isn't. Beard Papa is not the latest saxophonist to burn up the stage but a jolly Santa Claus figure whose day job is figurehead and logo for a voluminous Japanese-based chain of dessert cafes.

When the first Beard Papa Sweets Cafe; to hit New York opened on the Upper West Side, the line snaked around the block. Fortunately, Angelenos will no longer have to take the red-eye to JFK for their cream puff fix, because we got our very own Beard Papa a couple of weeks ago.

Ordinarily, wild horses couldn't drag me to the Hollywood & Highland Center, yet just last week I found myself nosing my car down the endless ramps of the way-below-ground parking structure and emerging, finally, on the escalator with one mission in mind: to try the freshly baked cream puffs at Beard Papa.

The girls in Sephora knew just where the cafe was: down the steps toward Hollywood Boulevard. While someone rang up my mascara, my fellow cream puff enthusiast scuttled down those steps, out of sight, calling, "Meet you there!" over his shoulder.

By the time I got there, he was already inside, flashing me a wicked smile. Down the hatch: one vanilla cream puff. The whole place smells like a vanilla bean (Madagascar vanilla, if anybody's wondering).

This may be the new Krispy Kreme. The concept is simple but brilliant. Two refrigerator-sized ovens churn out the puffs, each of which is hand-filled when you order. Right now they come in three varieties: basic vanilla, chocolate or éclair, which is the vanilla cream puff napped with deep, dark chocolate. Whoops, make that four varieties, because you can also order the éclair as a double chocolate -- with a chocolate filling.

The custard, which is made fresh every couple of hours, is thick and luscious, and the chocolate tastes just like chocolate pudding. They've got the sweetness level just right too. It would be very easy to develop a craving for these babies.

The trick is to eat them fresh. It's so tempting to get some for a dinner party or the holidays -- you can order them by the dozen (or more). But they have to be refrigerated, which means the experience is slightly different, because the pastry shell gets cold.

After I'd tried the éclair, which, for my money, is the best thing going here, I couldn't resist buying a dozen of them to serve that night to some dessert enthusiasts who were already coming over for dinner. While my guests weren't looking, I took the cream puffs out of the fridge and piled them on an antique cake plate. That really got their attention.

But even with the help of two other guests, we couldn't manage to polish off the whole dozen. One is delicious. Two is somehow less delicious.

Freshly filled right at the café is the most delicious of all.

My advice: If you plan to eat them later, pick them up as close as possible to the time you'll be serving them. And beware the temptation to dip into the box on the ride home. Better buy a couple of extras.

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Beard Papa Sweets Cafe

Where: Hollywood & Highland Center, 6801 Hollywood Blvd., No. 153, Hollywood

When: Open 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mondays to Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sundays. Lot parking, up to 4 hours, is $2 with validation.

Cost: Cream puffs, $1.50 to $1.85

Info: (323) 462-6100

bmwracer wrote:From the Los Angeles Times:

http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/cl-wk-critic24nov24,0,3592152.story?coll=cl-calendar

Creme de la creme of chain-store puffs
Beard Papa, a voluminous Japanese-based chain, opens at the Hollywood & Highland Center.

By S. Irene Virbila
Times Staff Writer
November 24, 2005

From the name, it could be a jazz club, but it isn't. Beard Papa is not the latest saxophonist to burn up the stage but a jolly Santa Claus figure whose day job is figurehead and logo for a voluminous Japanese-based chain of dessert cafes.

When the first Beard Papa Sweets Cafe; to hit New York opened on the Upper West Side, the line snaked around the block. Fortunately, Angelenos will no longer have to take the red-eye to JFK for their cream puff fix, because we got our very own Beard Papa a couple of weeks ago.

Ordinarily, wild horses couldn't drag me to the Hollywood & Highland Center, yet just last week I found myself nosing my car down the endless ramps of the way-below-ground parking structure and emerging, finally, on the escalator with one mission in mind: to try the freshly baked cream puffs at Beard Papa.

The girls in Sephora knew just where the cafe was: down the steps toward Hollywood Boulevard. While someone rang up my mascara, my fellow cream puff enthusiast scuttled down those steps, out of sight, calling, "Meet you there!" over his shoulder.

By the time I got there, he was already inside, flashing me a wicked smile. Down the hatch: one vanilla cream puff. The whole place smells like a vanilla bean (Madagascar vanilla, if anybody's wondering).

This may be the new Krispy Kreme. The concept is simple but brilliant. Two refrigerator-sized ovens churn out the puffs, each of which is hand-filled when you order. Right now they come in three varieties: basic vanilla, chocolate or éclair, which is the vanilla cream puff napped with deep, dark chocolate. Whoops, make that four varieties, because you can also order the éclair as a double chocolate -- with a chocolate filling.

The custard, which is made fresh every couple of hours, is thick and luscious, and the chocolate tastes just like chocolate pudding. They've got the sweetness level just right too. It would be very easy to develop a craving for these babies.

The trick is to eat them fresh. It's so tempting to get some for a dinner party or the holidays -- you can order them by the dozen (or more). But they have to be refrigerated, which means the experience is slightly different, because the pastry shell gets cold.

After I'd tried the éclair, which, for my money, is the best thing going here, I couldn't resist buying a dozen of them to serve that night to some dessert enthusiasts who were already coming over for dinner. While my guests weren't looking, I took the cream puffs out of the fridge and piled them on an antique cake plate. That really got their attention.

But even with the help of two other guests, we couldn't manage to polish off the whole dozen. One is delicious. Two is somehow less delicious.

Freshly filled right at the café is the most delicious of all.

My advice: If you plan to eat them later, pick them up as close as possible to the time you'll be serving them. And beware the temptation to dip into the box on the ride home. Better buy a couple of extras.

*

Beard Papa Sweets Cafe

Where: Hollywood & Highland Center, 6801 Hollywood Blvd., No. 153, Hollywood

When: Open 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mondays to Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sundays. Lot parking, up to 4 hours, is $2 with validation.

Cost: Cream puffs, $1.50 to $1.85

Info: (323) 462-6100

yeah been there a handful of times already...'member i posted these pix a while back....so far i've tried the original cream flavor, the green tea flavor, and the chocolate cream puff.


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Tu_triky wrote:'member i posted these pix a while back....

Sure did, that's why I posted the article. :D

When I saw the review in the paper, I said "hey, I know that place!" :)

bmwracer wrote:
Sure did, that's why I posted the article. :D

When I saw the review in the paper, I said "hey, I know that place!" :)

it's only a matter of time i think before they start opening more locations....it wouldn't surprise me if they open one on the West Side.

it's cool that ppl post those articles or notable events such as restaurant openings because i've come to benefit from the exchange of such information by going to some of these places myself :)

from mitsuwa,

lemon water drink and 2 onigiri's

korean bbq dinner. :bonk:

Wow, I had a friend here who I met up with in Baltimore, we ate at this place, haha he says I should try a good Maryland Crab cake, and damn was it good!

but geeez $20 just for the crab cake lol told me about some places around B-more, and we went to this barns & noble that used to be the old Power plant that used to Power Baltimore, they still have the smoke stacks inside which is very neet and makes a cool looking barns & Noble.