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Black Friday

ay_link November 24th, 2007

Nope, didn’t wake up early this morning just to hunt items on ridiculously bargain sale, LOL.
This Black Friday - the day when all shoppers go nuts without having to explain themselves why (and others understand them completely), has never been such a ‘lucky’ day for me. And this year, even though I did check the ads thoroughly, I only aimed for two things: Western Digital MyBook External Hard Drive at the price of 90 bucks (which CompUSA and BestBuy online are both SOLD OUT *blah*), and iPod Classic (possibly in white, which I haven’t seen them around anymore. Are they becoming like a collectible item or something? Are all the 6th generation of iPod Classic sold out, coz I can’t find them ANYwhere).
Anyhoo. I only bought one item @ Target - The Holiday DVD (luv chickflick hee hee) and the price is so good, $3.98 haha… so proud of myself LOL

Well, well. So for the remaining of my Black Friday, we went to Little Tokyo (us, girls. cousin and her mom, and my mom.), it’s daughers&moms day today hehehe.
Went shopping at this Japanese mall/plaza; bought little goodies from this lil store that sell items for like a buck fifty (gosh I love this store), then we went to 2nd street, the usual place, then ate dinner around 4:30′ish at T.O.T — highly recommended especially if you have been looking for a great authentic, little donburi place like this one. (yes, I’ve been wanting it since last year haha what a dream comes true!)
T.O.T (stands for Teishokuya of Tokyo) has variety selection of donburi (rice bowl) and the four of us went in without much hesitation even though its rating shows a “C” (never take this kind of rating to heart too much coz one thing I can tell you, T.O.T ain’t a “C”! Foods are awesome.)

We ordered plenty to feed the four of us kekeke…
- Tempura Bowl Combo (fried veggie tempura no rice, served with salad, Japanese vegetable rice, which looks like a fried rice with slices of shiitake mushrooms and a bowl of udon)
- Chicken Nanban Bowl Combo (crispy chicken cutlets on rice, poured with donburi sauce and eggs plus homemade tartar mayonaisse sauce on top, along with miso soup and salad)
- Spicy Fried Tofu Bowl (fried Japanese tofu with spicy sauce on rice, served with miso soup and salad)
- Fried Scallop Bowl (fried scallops poured with donburi sauce with eggs on rice, served with miso soup and salad)

Gosh I love donburi! Haha.

Well, since I didn’t take picture using my own camera, gotta wait for dear cousin to upload them tomorrow. Hee. I’ll post some pictures tomorrow, but meanwhile, here’s a taste of their rice bowl menu.
Can’t wait to go back there again! Haha.

Happy Thanksgiving!

ay_link November 23rd, 2007

For starter, TGIST! (Thank God It’s Still Thursday), hehe!
Well, as the calendar says, today is da turkey day, happy gobble-gobble day, Happy Thanksgiving.
A day of full celebration and this year, the family is celebrating it also with fried turkey and sushi included in tonight’s menu :D

The day when every business is closed including department stores, restaurants and even T-mobile toll-free customer service let their employees to take a day off to be with their families (I happened to have the need to call them this afternoon to check on my “Easy-pay” payment option which I don’t think they do a good job on it. Gotta call them again tomorrow to check what’s going on)

On tonight’s Thanksgiving Dinner Menu, we had:
- Turkey (fried; 12 lbs)
- Stuffing (my favorite Thanksgiving meal; made from a mixture of shiitake mushroom, rosemary, celery added into a batter of whisked eggs with cream. Oven for about 1 hr, and after that, it’ll look just like a casserole. Love it! I really can eat stuffing any day lol.)
- Mashed potato (errr.. not my favorite, but I guess I just love rice and noodle more to satisfy my carbs hehe.)
- Smashed sweet potato (yummy~)
- Garden Salad (with two types of dressing - the traditional Indonesian dressing called “Rujak Penganten” and the usual Thousand Islands dressing)
- Sweet corn
- Cranberry sauce (I actually ate it this year haha. Been skipping it a lot from the past-something years) - this time we used both raspberry and cranberry as the base, along with green apple (small cubes), walnuts, orange-marmalade, sliced oranges. Add some sugar to taste, and also orange liquor (which happened to have an expiration date 12/27. Phew!)
- Dinner rolls (King’s Hawaiian sweet rolls)
- Sushi (lots and lots of them. Compliment of our very own Chef Chris from San Diego hehe… yeah he made it himself, thank you very much.  Very deliz~)
- Pudding (vanilla-chocolate pudding, the traditional Indonesian milk pudding with its own ’sauce’, we call it ‘fla’ made from milk, sugar and corn starch)

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
I’m thankful to have this blog… a great place to brag around more about foods~ LOL!

Fast lunch

ay_link October 27th, 2007

On the plate, triangular pizzas are Korean pancakes (Pajeon) with yellow peppers, green onions and spam.

Sitting on the chopsticks are last night leftover California Roll sushi (with imitation crab, cucumber and avocado), fried with Korean pancake mix batter that I made those pajeon with.
Must be this flour again next time. Love this flour. It’s so… workable, gooey and taste yummy too hehehehe…