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So Much This Weekend

A lot happened this weekend. A LOT! I’ll have to break it down into a couple smaller posts as not to overwhelm the Internet with drunken, tasty activity.

Friday night Michelle got free access to the preview of Outdoor Cinema Food Fest. Every Saturday night in July and August they will be showing films outdoors in different parks in LA. They’re playing some great films, but the draw for us as well as other people I’m sure is the food trucks. Different food trucks are going to make appearances at the shows.

India Jones was there, and of course Michelle had to ask them to add some heat to our Butter Chicken Curry.

Buttery and spicy. An artery-clogging, butthole-burning meal. It’s so good.

Fishlips Sushi. This goes against everything I know about sushi. Don’t order it out of the trunk of some guys car, but I guess this is okay since it’s a truck? It was fresh, and Temari style is a great way to serve it. It looks great.

Of course the Grilled Cheese Truck was there. Gruyere is an awesome cheese. It’s like swiss, except they don’t cheat you out of cheese because there are no holes in this one.

Grilled cheese isn’t the same without tomato soup. However, I will tell everyone to pass on the tomato soup (if you can even call it that) from the truck. Have you ever eaten diet frozen dinners with marinara sauce? That is what this tastes like. There is no depth to this watery tomato-flavored bowl of wetness.

People gathered on the lawn. We couldn’t stick around, because we had places to be but it was a nice, quick stop for us since we didn’t know what we wanted for dinner.

This is where we were heading. Crazy 4 Cult. Unfortunately the line was ridiculously long and people were getting more upset than usual for people taking cuts because there were limited prints for sale. I’ll have to check out this week perhaps.

We decided we still needed our fill of culture, so we went to Thinkspace Art Gallery to check out an artist Michelle likes.

Dan-ah Kim does some incredible mixed media pieces. If I had some more money I’d consider buying this piece.

These next sets of pictures are actually from another artist that is exhibiting in the same gallery. I like his stuff. This is part of Yosuke Ueno’s “Negative Never Again” collection.

I love the colors she uses just in the background on her paintings. They make the canvas look like they’re glowing.

This one reminds me of my past.

Guess who was at Thinkspace? No, we didn’t. We’re on wedding diets. Three food trucks is enough for one night, especially since it was only Friday night and more weekend had to be survived.

Love is Delicious

Last night was Valentine’s Day dinner for Michelle and me. Michelle was so busy with work that we didn’t have time to do anything last Sunday. Also, I forgot that I was supposed to do something. I took Michelle to Sushiya, which I’ve been to once before.

Live scallop. So incredibly fresh.

Live sweet shrimp. Well it was alive until they pulled the head off and fried it.

Spanish Mackerel.

More Spanish Mackerel.

They really give you all of the fish.

Diamond Roll. Wouldn’t be a special meal for us without something to burn the palette.

If you’re in San Pedro, go eat here. It’s truly a gem in a city where food is normally a much heartier affair. The fish is always fresh and the staff is super friendly. The sushi chef knows people are finding him on Yelp.

New Year’s Resolution

I normally don’t make resolutions for myself for the new year, because I’m pretty much perfect. Ask Michelle. Well maybe not. I don’t see the new year is any different than any other time to make changes to my life. This year, however, I am resolving to make a change. I’m going to lose weight.

I’m by no means what you would call heavy. I just show weight in my face. More chins than a Chinese phone book. My coworker decided he wanted to lose weight and I decided to jump on the band wagon. We had some other coworkers join us in our venture and we made a wager. Whoever loses the most percentage of weight by the end of March wins a pool of money, twenty bucks each. The weigh in is January 4.

In the mean time I’m bulking up before I have to weigh myself. I had dinner with my brother and sister-in-law at Kumano Sushiya. I had no idea this place existed.

Fish Tacos #1.

It’s quite refreshing. Reminds me of a torta.

Tuna steak. Very flavorful.

Salmon Nigiri. For where this restaurant is located, I’d honestly expect to be chewing on rubbery pieces of fish, but it was fresh.

I didn’t actually get to eat this one, but the display was well executed.

Baked scallop roll. This is one of my favorites to order, but I’ve had better in other places.

You know what they say about oysters, right? They’re delicious!

Uni and salmon roe.

Some of the dishes offered almost put it into the category of a fusion restaurant, but they have some very traditional  dishes too. All of them are delicious, even more so when someone else picks up the bill.

Another Delicious Weekend

I went three for three on going out for this past weekend. That is pretty good for me. Normally one of my days is reserved for nothing. Nothing is important after getting my ass kicked all week.

Friday I got to have dinner with Michelle and my Cousin Trevor. He picked Sake House Miro on Miracle Mile for us to meet up. The sushi was pretty good. Also the Butter Fish isn’t shown here, but it is awesome. They must get fish to adapt to swim and live in vats of butter.

This is no optical illusion. The beer is the size of Michelle’s head.

There are lots of other things on the menu, which don’t seem to fit. I ordered the Garlic and Naan Pizza because it seemed so out of place on the menu. It was actually pretty good.

Saturday was a Christmas party for Michelle and her dorm friends. It’s hard to tell from this picture, but it was a pajama party.

This is one of my weaknesses. I always forget what these are called, but they are awesome.

Some of the people had too much fun and took the theme a little too seriously.

Sunday I had the pleasure of joining a bunch of food loving Internet nerds (and I mean that in the best way possible) for a meal at Shu Feng Yuan in San Gabriel. I am by no means a foodie, but I do love food, just not in the same way that these people do. I have a much simpler understanding of food, but I’d like to think my enjoyment of the food is as great even if my ability to describe it is not up to par.

I have no idea which dish is which, but you have lamb, brazed pork, various noodles, sea cucumber, chicken soup, kidney, intestines, pork blood, pig ears, frog legs, and diced rabbit.  Can you guess which dish is the least spicy? It’s the least red one. I enjoyed this meal thoroughly and enjoyed the company just as much.

I saw Avatar this weekend. Stay tuned for that.

A Hello Kitty Weekend

This Friday was Spencer’s birthday. He thought he was going to a show. Little did he know that when he came upstairs to get the tickets that Vivian forgot, we jumped out and surprised him. We had a sushi party with all the fixings.

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The chefs, preparing Japanese delicacies.

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Harrison, looking especially creepy. Everyone dressed up in Hello Kitty attire.

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Japanese people to judge our pathetic attempts at sushi.

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Lo, looking very short bus.

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The Hello Kitty cake.

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Spencer with all his Hello Kitty gear.

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Annie rocks out on Guitar Hero.

The next day Michelle and I were beat, so we took it easy. We went to watch Juno. This was an excellent movie, filled with dark humor. I recommend everyone go see it.

Girls Used to Push Me, Now They Want Sushi

Look at what Michelle got for us. We are in possession of these.

Yes, we will be taking many trips to Ra Sushi, the second coolest hangout in Torrance. It beat out Killian’s and Iccho and is only surpassed by Lucky Strike, because there is actually something to do there. These coupons are bound to make us quite popular. I like to call it Friend Insurance. It keeps friends around, at least until June 30, 2o08. You can be the first to come along if you know what I’m referencing (poorly) in my title.

Can you imagine how great it would be if thirty of us showed up and got 1 cent drinks? Unfortunately the appetizer is one per party, so we would have to come in separately and merge together after we’ve gotten our freebies.