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Skriven 2007-08-28 08:04:02 av hap newsom (1:10/345)
     Kommentar till en text av michael loo
Ärende: korean eats
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Hey Michael!
-> 
->  HN> We have a very (VERY) large Korean Community here so there are lots
->  HN> and lots of Korean eating places that are very good. I took Michael to
->  HN> one of my fav's on his last trip out here. 
->  
-> And very nice it was. Good food, efficient service, decent prices,
-> okay, or is that obee, beer. Odd name, Soon Yi Allen Number Two
-> or something. The only major quibble I had was that the pork was
-> too lean! Perhaps I am used to lower class joints.
->
That's the place alright..still one of my favs when I go "korean" which 
usually means Annie's not along for the meal (grin). I really do want to go 
back to the buffet though!
-> =
-> 
->  HN> While Anne and I both enjoy fine dining, our normal dining experiences
->  HN> usually costs less than$40 for the two of us for the entire meal plus
->  HN> tip. So $20.99 each is a bit pr icier than we usually go...but not
->  HN> extraordinarily so.
-> 
-> Our east coast big city prices are high by comparison: I'm lucky
-> to get out for $40 a person most places.
-> 
When we go for a full dining experience we fit in that category as well. Most 
of our dining out however is places like the Ram  where we get a cobb salad 
for $10 or so and iced tea.. .or a burger for $10 or so and tea. Or to the 
Engine house #9 for pretty much the same fare. Stadium Bistro on the other 
hand will get into our wallet to a much greater depth as well many of the 
place we like in Seattle. 

-> Yesterday I had an interesting meal with my friend Joel -
-> he was helping me get rid of the last of my stuff, and
-> as he and his wife have been helpful and good friends
-> and have had me over for dinner a hundred times, I took
-> him to the best place I know of on the north shore -
-> Zafferano, in Orient Heights. We were the only table in
-> the joint all evening, and the bread that came in its
-> elegant spiral holder was yesterday's, ah well. I always
-> get the trofeo di melanzane, the eggplant-cheese tower in
-> tomato cream, to split, and that's what we did. Yesterday's
-> bread went well with. I gave Joel all the cheese.
-> 
Is the restaurant going downhill and losing partonage or was it just a 
strange "off" day?

-> I ordered the Zonin Pinot Grigio 05, a thinnish wine,
-> slightly citrusy, slightly minerally, not too interesting
-> by itself and beaten up by the tomato cream sauce of the
-> appetizer, but as it turns out okay with the main courses.
-> 
-> Joel, who doesn't eat meat in restaurants, had the special
-> mushroom risotto, which was absolutely wonderful, better
-> than mine. The mushrooms were mostly the tame wild ones
-> you get - shiitake and oyster - but that was made up for
-> with great vast lashings of truffle oil. My veal with
-> mushrooms in white wine was also good, though the mushrooms
-> were the same ones as in his risotto. A salad came with,
-> but whose it was is open to debate. It was at Joel's left
-> and my right, so I figured it was his; he thought it was
-> mine (this is what happens when two guys fight over a salad),
-> so we split it. Fresh greens, good balsamic, good olive oil.
-> 
Yummmmm mushroom risotto with truffle oil! sounds gooooooood! I'll bet that 
risotto would have gone well over some crispy pork !

-> For dessert, Chardonnay di Nonnino, a light golden grappa
-> from Jacopo Poli (or so the proprietor said). Nice tropical
-> fruit, a bit of leather, perhaps a lesser effort but still
-> attractive.
-> 
I thought Chardonneay's were dry? and Sauternes are sweet?

-> 
-> And then on to South Station, where my credit card did work,
-> and I was on the 9:45 to Washington, biz class for $41 extra.
-> I hiked up to the biz class car and plopped down in the
-> rather spare seat. The conductor came by and evicted me,
-> saying that in fact even though it said business class, the
-> car was outfitted in coach, and would I please move to the
-> club car, where I found a fat seat with good pitch and good
-> recline in a 2+1 configuration. A Courvoisier and a half a
-> Benadryl and I was in the land of nod, from 128 all the way
-> to Baltimore, 8 solid hours and 15 stops. Oh, by the way,
-> despite its being a fat seat with good pitch and good recline
-> and with calf and foot rests, it was probably the most
-> uncomfortable public trans seat I've sat on in a long time.
-> I don't know, its bulges and creases were in just the wrongest
-> possible places for my body.

As we get older, those bulges in our body become more sensitive to being 
missmatched with the bulges in the seats! 
chat with you soon
hap 
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