Dec/090
crab feed!
the more i try not to write about food, the more that i end up writing about food.
one of the great things about being back in california for the holidays is that i got to attend my cousin celia‘s annual crab feed.
crab might be my very favorite food of all time. i like it prepared hong kong typhoon style, or chinese style with ginger and oil or in fried rice (in the philippines, or the thai restaurant in rat alley in hong kong) but what i like the best is dungeness (off the north american pacific coast from san francisco north to vancouver) straight boiled and eaten plain. really. it’s the best, and celia’s crab feed is the best opportunity to fill myself full of crab.
Dec/092
christmas eve dinner
we were priviliged enough to be hosted by my cousin keelan and his wife amelia and their two precocious sons samuel and joshua, for a hybrid western/filipino christmas eve dinner. growing up christmas eve dinner wasn’t a big deal in my household, but it was nice to have a family dinner on a family holiday.
Dec/090
home for the holidays
after an epic 4 airport (shanghai pudong, hong kong chep lap kok, san francisco international and san diego international) and 23 hour journey involving 2 cars, 1 train, 3 flights i finally arrived in san diego just in time to catch the poinsietta bowl, starring my beloved cal bears. while the game result didn’t go as i would’ve hoped, it’s good to be back in california for a little while. i’m here through the 2nd, and then i’ll be in new york through the 7th or 8th. here’s some photos from my trip home and the bowl game.
Dec/092
dadgummit! blowout!
for me, watching the 1983 movie “a christmas story” is almost as much as a tradition as christmas itself.
with that in mind, we had everyone get together to watch the movie and to have meatloaf, mashed potatoes, broccoli florets with cheese sauce and cream of mushroom soup (prepared by colin). it was the first time i’ve made meatloaf – but it turned out quite well, except for it falling apart, so it became meat-pile, instead of meatloaf.
Dec/0914
still not a food blog: monday hot pot
there’s a lot of resources around the shanghai internets about hot pot and the various locales where one can partake in this winter-centric dining style, so i don’t feel i need the need to add to this.
but as this is my friend grace’s last full week and shanghai AND my super-awesome-cool friend abbie was up in shanghai for meetings, we gathered at hot pot king (huaihai lu and fuxing lu – 2nd floor) for some awesomeness.
Hot Pot King (Huaihai Lu)
PHONE: 6473 6380
ADDRESS: 2/F, 1416 Huaihai Lu,
near Fuxing Lu
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about 80 rmb per person
Dec/092
60 hours in the life
had a big weekend. krispy kreme grand opening. grace’s going away dinner. dessert at hof. late night drinks at cha’s with colette. handel’s messiah sung by the international festival chorus, including andrew.
Dec/097
i swear this isn’t a food blog
tonkatsu is japanese for fried pork cutlet. and the best and most traditional japanese restaurants tend to specialize in one thing – when in japan, you go one place for sushi, another place for ramen, and a third place for soba.
in shanghai, there’s a tonkatsu place located behind jing’an temple. i am part of this lunch group that meets on a semi-regular basis to, well, eat. on wednesday of this week we went to this tonkatsu place.
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Jing an district, Jiao Zhou Road No. 176, Near Beijing West Road
here’s the review on dianping.com (which is china’s answer to yelp, but for restuarants only)
they served about 10 different types of tonkatsu, depending on if you liked curry, or lean or more fatty. i chose the curry.
Dec/097
is there anything they can’t do?
i don’t want to make this into a blog-vertisement like woai does with marks & spencer, lawry’s and charlie chan’s.
but we were on our way back from lunch and we spotted people inside krispy kreme on wujiang lu, and we made our way in. apparently they’re doing an sms pre-opening promotion where you receive an sms and get a box of donuts.
since we weren’t part of the promotion, the american manager gave us each on hot sweet donut. mmmmmmmm.
here’s some photos of the fryer and glazer in action.
still opens on december 15. merry christmas!
Dec/094
home again, home again
with christmas and new year’s around the corner, i’m in countdown mode for my trip back to the states, which is nominally home for me.
of course, i’m not really sure what is home anymore. let’s review a bit:
pittsburgh, pa
i left at age 2 or 3. don’t remember a single thing about pittsburgh. have never been back. so pittsburgh isn’t home. (although if i was mainland chinese, i’d be a pittsburgher)
Dec/0918
krispy kreme is (almost) here!
we got a preview in our office today. someone who knows someone resulting in this on my desk this morning.
grand opening december 15, 2009.
