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Saturday, August 09, 2003

Breakfast: Not-quite-nasi goreng for breakfast, made of rice, chopped napa cabbage, green onion, Boca italian soy sausage, (Hey, I was trying to use up whatever was left in the fridge!) wasabi fumi furikake, bonito flakes, shoyu, sesame oil, garlic, ginger, Japanese red pepper, etc... topped with 2 eggs scrambled and a squirt of ketchup, with some warm natto on the side. Somehow this dish always fails to live up to the deliciousness of the first few times I made it, mucking about with leftover ingedients Iron Chef-like in my parents' kitchen.

Lunch: Turnip, Chinese spinach and mushroom & something green (I forget what) steamed bao for lunch. A constant flow of calamansi drink all day long.

Was struck by the odd (for me anyway) urge for a Coke when checking out at Target at 9pm. I rarely buy anything off of an end cap, ever.

Dinner: Chicken and pineapple pizza (the Marco Landín especial) from Amazonas, the place across from Pusan Plaza, for dinner at 11:30pm. And another Coke. Surprised to find that it's actually a very nice little place, with coffee, teas, sandwiches, salads, etc... but totally lacking in the pretension and "snoot factor" I detest about so many other East Bay cafe-type places. Intimidatingly HUGE slices, too. Damn, why didn't I discover this one sooner? Curiously, even the liquor store next door appears clean and well lit... surprising considering the rest of that stretch of Telegraph Avenue seems rather dark and dingy, sometimes even in the middle of the day.

Should go back there again before I leave for Asia. Seeing as I've pretty much disassembled and packed up my kitchen at this point, that's probably quite likely to happen, too.