My cousin sent me a picture of Chicago about a week ago and they have snow already! Aren’t they so lucky? 🙁 I really liked the weekend we had cold weather. Now it’s back to the muggy humidity. Bleh!
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First Birthday Party
I went to a First Birthday Party this past weekend at Willows and it was wonderful! I wanted to share some awesome pictures of how the party was set-up. Mommy put in a lot of work to create a wonderful experience for her son so I wanted to share the results! My next post will concentrate on the food we had at Willows. So you are all warned, this post is full of pictures and mostly of decorations. 🙂 Graphic heavy!
Can you guess what the theme is? lol…
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Satisfries
So there was a bit of news when Burger King released their Satisfries. They apparently spent 10 years researching on how to make like the perfect french fry which is supposed to have lower fat and tastes great. I was excited mainly because they were serving crinkle fries. I’ll take crinkle fries over regular fries any day. So how did they fare?
Okay I just realized how unappetizing this picture looks – but the fries taste great! I thought they did a good job! Unfortunately these satisfries do not automatically come with the meals, they serve the regular fries! So yeah, you have to pay to upgrade to these babies.
Here’s what got me the most! I don’t know if you can make it out in the picture but it says that these are for a limited time only. WHAT?? They spent 10 years to come up with these and they are only going to offer it for a limited time? I don’t know what to say. Maybe they are testing the waters – I hope it succeeds cause I thought they tasted great!
Pretz – Okonomiyaki
I wish Pretz would release all their weird flavors here in Hawaii. Or let me back up, I wish Japan would release all their weird everything here in Hawaii. I get such a laugh out of some of their products. Maybe it’s more that I wish Don Quijote would just ship them in! My coworker gave me a box of these Pretz to try and boy are they interesting. Okonomiyaki flavor! So how did they taste? Surprisingly, a lot like okonomiyaki! But an aritificial okonomiyaki taste, maybe like how a sauce packet for an instant okonomiyaki would taste like. Very concentrated flavor.
Flavors from left to right: Wasabi, Okonomiyaki, Ichigo (Strawberry), Jyagabadaa (Japanese for baked potato!), Mentaiko, and Takoyaki! Which flavor would you want to taste most?
Cold Weather!
See what happens when I don’t schedule out posts? I apologize. Last week was just a cluster of things that happened so I couldn’t update my blog. I apologize! I don’t apologize for you having to see portuguese sausage all week long because that’s the best sausage in the world. Haha…just kidding. I really am sorry. How did you folks like the weekend’s weather? I personally like cold and rainy weather so I LOVED it. Luckily the rain dried up today so I was able to hang out my laundry. Three day weekend – I hope everyone had a good one. I attended an awesome 1st birthday party and like totally cleaned up my place! I’ve been staring at my old desktop for years and finally sat down and tore that sucker open to grab my hard drive. It was a struggle but I got it! Best Buy takes in computers for free recycling, isn’t that great? So I dropped it off…then I hammered the life out of my hard drive this morning. This is one crazy post. I’m going to work on some updates tonight for posting! For now, please enjoy a picture from Korea.
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Happy November!!
I can’t believe it’s November already! I’m sure by this posting, there will already be crazy Christmas stuff up! Everyone starts up Christmas stuff like right after Halloween! I do love autumn and winter a lot. I wish I lived in the mainland so I could witness the change of the seasons. I know the Pumpkin Spice Latte has been around for ages but I only got to taste it this season and I am hooked! I’m not even a fan of Starbucks coffee but the pumpkin spice latte somehow masks how bitter their espresso is. Hehe…have you tried it? I really recommend that you do…
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
A little late to post but better late than never right?? I found these cute breast cancer awareness ribbon nail stickers at Party City a while back and finally got to put it on! Well me being as graceful as I am…the stickers lasted all of a day or two. Do you ever look at girls who have all those trinkets on their nails? I always think to myself – man, they must do no housework whatsoever. And the girls with the long nails and trinkets? I wonder how they wipe their butt. LOL. Okay sorry for that image. Anyway. This picture also comes at a funny time, this is like almost exactly where I was flipped off today. It’s funny because the person who flipped me off was first of all, wrong because she was at a stop sign and was trying to cut me off (I had the right of way) and then when I waved for her to go (cause she was pretty much blocking my lane), she gives me the finger and doesn’t move. What was that about? I drove home pretty irritated…and she was behind me most of the way of course. I felt a little scared because well, you never know these days. She could have been a lunatic and who knows what she would have done. Okay okay, I will stop talking and show my nails. Hope you are all doing well!
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711 Pasta Salad
I noticed this new pasta salad at 711 the other day and decided to try it for dinner. I don’t have a full picture of this but at the bottom of this dish is cooked spaghetti noodles. I don’t know why they put a white sauce on the noodles – it’s a cold pasta salad. I’m guessing it’s mayonnaise but I’m not sure. On the top of the spaghetti is a small container of dressing (I assume it’s oriental dressing), some salad greens and a few pieces of what tasted like Korean chicken. Here’s a picture.
Looks pretty good huh? It was all right. I think the mayonnaise keeps the pasta moist so it won’t stick together. The chicken was…not great. It was cold and hard…so a bit rough. All in all the salad was good but not something I would return for.
Brug Bakery
Have you tried the new Brug Bakery in Shirokiya yet? When they first opened, it was pandemonium! The line was neverending and people were limited to like two pieces per person. I came by on a weekday for lunch recently and decided to check out their goods. I bought a half loaf of their regular white bread. It definitely is pricey, the half loaf cost about 6 dollars but each slice is big and thick!
Toasted Brug bread with tuna salad and cranberries
How’s the bread? DELICIOUS. I can see why it costs what it costs. You can taste a lot of good quality ingredients and they must have bread baking down to a perfect science. I toasted the bread a bit so it was crispy yet still soft inside. Perfection. And then since I was still on the tuna kick, I added tuna and cranberries on top. I bought like this huge bag of cranberries at Costco because it was on sale. Costco is dangerous.
Chongga Kimchi
The other week, I had to wait two hours at Costco to get my tire fixed so I had a lot of time to browse. I happened upon their cold cases and saw a bottle of kimchee I wanted! No, not Halm’s kimchee. But you know what? I haven’t had Halm’s in the longest time! The kimchee I saw was Chongga Kimchi and it was imported from Korea! I just HAD to try it.
Apparently it’s the #1 kimchi brand in the world. I don’t know how they got a title like that but I’ll go with it. So how is it? The first few bites, I thought it was just all right. Tasted a bit sour and I didn’t think it was great. Well as I started eating more…the flavor was definitely better. I like it a lot. It’s only about 7 dollars for this jar of kimchee so I think it’s a great deal. I hope Costco continues to carry it but you know that they continually switch up their goods. If you like kimchee, I highly suggest you give this a try! It’s only been about a week and I’m almost done with it. I’m a kimchee freak!