"Oh yes, sushi... you will be mine!"
Oops, in my haste to post as many Nifty Adventures posts as I could before the next guy started taking shots and posting them in the discussion thread, I missed this outing. When Susie was still here for Christmas we went out to Haru, I mean “Edo”, Japanese Restaurant. Haru is no more. New management has come in and renamed it Edo. Same location, same menu, same great ingredients–only a name change. Not sure why, but there it is. The new management had happened a while back, and we’d been to Haru/Edo a few times since and been happy with the food and service, but the official name change is recent. » Continue Reading…
Sal and Phil's Po-Boy - Seafood
Work is killing me and I’m still swamped, but I’m gonna die if I don’t take a break, so I’m doing so by putting up another Nifty Fifty post. All pictures here are courtesy of Nifty. The day Nifty arrived, we went to Sal and Phil’s for dinner. My cousin and his bride were in town for Christmas. With him having been away from the South for 10 years and her never having been to Mississippi, I racked my brain for Mississippi- or at least Southern-authentic food for them to have while they were here. We had an awesome Christmas dinner and delicious leftovers for days (post on that to come once the smoke clears), but it was time to switch it up a bit, so Sal and Phil’s it was. Oh, and my sister Susie was here too, but she visits at least once a year and is more excited about getting sushi instead of Southern fare while she’s down here. » Continue Reading…
Oriental East
Actual date: August 14, 2009
Sorry for the lull in posts. See, the version 2.5 update of Lightroom came out, allowing me to process all my RAW E-P1 files instead of relying on the JPEGs, and firmware updates came out for the E-P1 and lenses supposedly improving autofocus performance that I had to test, and… Ok, so all of that is true but not at all the reason for the lack of posts. Laziness is, as usual. Plus the English Premier League and college football seasons have started up in earnest, and I have to dedicate my customary hours to making sure I fulfill my man duty to know as much as possible about sports, especially the ones I claim to follow, but even those that I don’t.
In my semi-defense, this post is a doozy as I’m going to totally and utterly geek out about this dim sum, so that and my natural laziness combined and reacted to form an impenetrable wall of dread and reluctance to post, which I’ve only now been able to overcome. Warning to all: if you don’t care about food just skip this one, as it’s a total food fest and will be quite the long post to boot. » Continue Reading…
Dolcezza Gelato
Actual date: August 13, 2009
Yeah, we were full after eating at Bethesda Crab House. Too full for dessert though? Not a chance. On the way back to the Metro, we swung by Dolcezza Gelato for some… uh… gelato. It was a few blocks away, which gave us a chance to see the sights while letting the crab feast pack down in our stomachs. » Continue Reading…
Bethesda Crab House
Actual date: August 13, 2009
Long fun day at the zoo wore us out, and we needed some serious replenishment. Bethesda Crab House was on the dining itinerary that night. We got on the red line Metro at rush hour with a few thousand other people and made our way out to the Bethesda Metro stop, from which it was a few more blocks trek to Bethesda Crab House. Susie met us there soon thereafter. We would’ve gotten there sooner if I hadn’t led us the wrong way a couple times. Note to anybody using Google Maps to navigate D.C.: the listed metro stops are the locations of the escalators. The elevators are often in a completely different spot. Don’t make the same mistake I did. » Continue Reading…
Actual date: August 12, 2009
Part of the appeal of vacationing is seeing new and/or unusual things. To people from Mississippi, D.C. is full of such wonders, only a few of which I had the awareness to capture in photos. These aren’t going to be phenomenally wondrous things, but rather a collection of random and unrelated sights that I found interesting as a hick from a small town visiting D.C.
Line out the door at Greek Deli
Greek Deli is another place near Susie’s office we had penciled in as a potential place to eat. I hesitate to call it a “restaurant” since there’s no indoor seating, and I can only guess that the outdoor seating in front of it is theirs. We didn’t go because we didn’t think we’d be able to sit and eat, but it’s still on the list for a future visit. The guy in the dark blue shirt and khakis is in line to order. Yes, they are lined up outside the store, with quite a few more people lined up inside (maybe about 3 times the length of the outside line?). That’s how good this place is. Supposedly they also have their own version of Seinfeld’s Soup Nazi, albeit kinder and doesn’t sell soup. You are however expected to know what you want and order quickly instead of dilly-dallying, which is understandable considering the lunch traffic they serve. » Continue Reading…
Ghar-E-Kabab
Actual date: August 12, 2009
Flying, lunch, dragging stuff to Susie’s house, and crashing for a few hours–that’s all we managed for day 1 of our D.C. trip. After regaining some energy, we rolled out of bed and went to Ghar-E-Kabab for a super late dinner by our standards, getting to the restaurant around 9:30 p.m. There was only one other occupied table when we entered, which for Ghar-E-Kabab’s sake we hope is because we were so late getting there. It couldn’t have been because their food was lacking, because I can tell you right now that they serve some excellent Indian food there. » Continue Reading…
Walking to Singapore Bistro
Actual date: August 12, 2009
This trip was the first that we had pre-planned around good food. In the past we might’ve made mental notes of a few places we wanted to go to, but this time we planned every single meal. We didn’t want to waste a single meal by just going to eat somewhere close to wherever we were when we started getting hungry. We didn’t completely succeed in that effort, but that’s a story for another post. We tried to plan restaurants to go with activities, and since Singapore Bistro sounded like a good place to eat and is close to Susie’s office we chose it for our first meal. » Continue Reading…
Crowd of hundreds
Actual date: October 17, 2008
The original impetus for our trip to Indonesia was that mom and dad were going to have a multiple-purpose get-together to celebrate mom’s birthday, their anniversary, their many years of service to the church (the church wanted to celebrate that–they weren’t showing off), and to give thanks for me and Denise having gotten married. That last bit was supposed to be celebrated in 2005, but that was the year of the Bali bomb incident and we took the U.S. State Department’s travel advisory (“Don’t go to Indonesia unless you have to.”) very seriously and ended up cancelling that trip. In retrospect with Indonesia being generally safe–not a warzone or anything–and our lives being in God’s hands we might’ve chosen differently with what we know now, but that’s how it went down at the time. So this get-together became a huge deal with hundreds of people invited and a huge feast of food mostly prepared and paid for by people who had known mom and dad for many years and wanted to help celebrate this occasion. » Continue Reading…
Last hug for now
Bye for now, Susie. Your visit was way too short, but we’ll see you in August!