Curious Notions

I didn’t get my birthday wish but I did have a nice dinner with some friends at a new place I’ve been meaning to try. The only person who had Torchy’s Tacos was Jen and she’s never had it at the Trailer Park & Eatery. Happily, it was a new experience for everyone involved.

Si Nae and Stephen brought their two new puppies.

So at the Trailer Park & Eatery there’s Torchy’s Tacos and another trailer I didn’t try out yet called Treat, a dessert eatery. This is Brandi in front of the Torchy’s window.

I ordered the popular deep fried avocado taco and the green chile pork taco. Delicious. I especially liked the green chile pork taco.

My brother ordered the “Dirty Sanchez” which instigated a few immature chuckles.

What’s in the Dirty Sanchez? Scrambled eggs with guacamole, fried poblano chili, escabeche carrots, and shredded cheese served on a flour tortilla with poblano ranch sauce.

Everyone enjoyed the tacos. Pretty damn good and I’d so come back.

Some more photos:

Brandi, the cake decorator made me that cake. Reminds me of a little girl’s birthday cake. Plus, it was chocolate. Chocolate is medicine for the soul.

I’m glad my 25th year is over. 26 is starting off shaky too but through it all I have good people and good food. That’s not too shabby.

I’m 26 today.

So these came over the weekend.

Then today I got two more deliveries.

I’m so lucky to have the people I have in my life.

Last night Brandi, Jessica, and Jesse took me to Melting Pot, I blew out a birthday candle and made my first wish. I wished pretty hard. I usually have a very broad wish when I blow out candles but this time, I specifically wished for something. My actual birthday is Tuesday (Brandi just likes to spoil me) and I’ll wish for it once more.

Brandi declared today, “Linda Hot Dog Day.” She’s crazy. I like to only really have one big celebration with loved ones and then maybe one more if I have someone special but she’s adamant about extending festivities. So she made us hot dogs and made us wear party hats.

Jessica: “You can see me two times, bitches!”

Maybe I should have wished for bigger boobs…

This shot took us several times to get kind of right.

I woke up to beautiful flowers. My roomie signed for them for me. It came with a kiddy joke. You know I love my kiddy jokes.

Q. What’s a cat’s favorite color?
A. PURRRRple.

I keep admiring them. I’m still surprised they’re for me. Thank you.

Kim sent me this video. Cute video of a couple’s dance down the aisle.

Stress. I have a test Friday. Not ready. I’m facing my 26th birthday exactly where I don’t want to be on Tuesday. Life is a whirlwind. So give me a minute to get back to regularly blogging. In the meantime, I’m microblogging still if you find that you miss me ;). You can go to my twitter here, or just look to your right.

That video of Lebron getting dunked ended up being mediocre huh?

Here’s a cute video I posted in my old xanga page back in October 2006.

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I’ve only tried out three frozen yogurt places thus far. Pink Berry and Red Mango when I was in NYC and there’s a yogurt place down the street from me called Tomunchi. It’s funny how it’s all the rage now. Jen T and I tried my second new one in Austin, Swirll on the drag. I liked Swirll’s topping selection better than Tomunchi’s but Tomunchi’s location is so much more convenient to me. Swirll is 4 cents more at 43 cents an ounce compared to Tomunchi’s 39 cents an ounce. They’re all really good though. My yogurt selection today: lychee, strawberry, cookies and cream, taro (my favorite flavor), their own house blend. The only flavor I would steer clear from next time would be the strawberry because it’s too tart for me. My toppings today: Lychees, lychee jelly, chocolate chips, brownie bits, fruity pebbles, strawberries, and mangoes. I ate it ALL.

The spoons are from Ikea. ;)

Look how expansive the selection of toppings.

I forgot the mochi. I can’t remember if they had mochi.

Jennifer’s yogurt.

Yummy. I have a handful more of yogurt places in Austin to try. I want to eat the world. Too bad I don’t have enough time or money!

Other Blog Entries:
April 6, 2009 – Tomunchi
April 19, 2008 – Pink Berry
April 16, 2008 – Red Mango

One of the things I miss about my previous job aside from the obvious INCOME, is my coworkers. Namely, Jamie and Lily. I miss sitting next to Lily and overhearing her crazy conversations with her boyfriend. Being her neighbor was such a pleasure. Jamie wasn’t as physically close to my desk but bumping into her in the hallways was always refreshing. I miss them. I met them up for lunch today. The three of us, when going to lunch during work hours, we always either went to Korea Garden or Korea House. We’ve never been anywhere else for lunch during work hours. Today it was Korea Garden. Being as our last few lunches together we opted for Korea House, I haven’t been in Korea Garden in the last 5 months. They’ve had a big change!

They’ve converted half their sitting area into a sushi conveyor belt room! I haven’t eaten off a conveyor belt yet and appreciated the novelty. It’s pretty cheap too during lunch. Each plate you grab is a flat 2.50. Hip and casual. Korea Garden has a new modern twist. I don’t know of any sushi restaurants in Austin with a conveyor belt.

We grabbed dessert at Dairy Queen. I’ve been seeing commericals on TV for their new Girl Scout Tagalog Blizzard, I had to try. It was AWESOME. If you don’t know, Tagalog cookies are peanut butter patties.

I finished the whole thing.

Jamie’s turtle chocolate waffle sundae also from DQ.

Last weekend in Houston, Cindy introduced me to some really cheap and authentic Chinese food on Bellaire in the same shopping center as Sinh Sinh. The place is called Classic Kitchen. We ordered more than we could finish (2 family style dishes) and paid nine dollars with tip. I really enjoyed it and would totally go back, that is, with someone who can read Chinese/speak.

Their menu is in Chinese.

We ordered the spicy beef noodle soup and something that is directly translated into “grab pancake.” The noodles come three different ways: small, big, or sliced and cut from a block of pasta. We chose cut and sliced.

spicy beef noodle soup

The beef was SO incredibly tender. It was amazing, how tender it was. The broth was delicious. It was the first time I’ve heard of or had these kind of noodles. It’s a bit firmer and heartier than most noodles. I’d so order this soup again. A restaurant is a winner to me when I think about what I’ve had there and it makes me want to go back fast and relive it.

Close up of the noodles

grab pancake

I forgot the Chinese name for this but it translates to “grab pancake.” It’s call grab pancake because they grab the dough and fluff it up before they fry it so you get nice stringy and fluffy layers. It’s awesome. I’d order this again too.

I was satisfied and impressed by Classic Kitchen. A LOT of good food for dirt cheap. You can’t go wrong there.