Breakfast: Leftover Kung Pao chicken and rice from Daimo. Oolong tea.

Lunch:

Dinner:

Breakfast: Japanese-style breakfast with natto and uzura no tomago over gohan, miso soup, shisamo, nori and ocha.

Beverage: Tried one of Krispy Kreme's new "Frozen Blend" beverages in "Original Kreme" flavor with coffee. I wasn't terribly impressed. It did taste sort of like pureed donuts, though without the texture of pureed donuts, if that makes any sense. The coffee in it was nearly undetectable.

Lunch: The taco truck that used to be in front of Food Barn wasn't there again, so I went down a few blocks to another one. Got 4 tacos... two chicken, two al pastor, and a horchata.

Dinner: Kung pao chicken and rice from Daimo, glass of milk.

Breakfast: Nope.

Lunch: Thought about it. Then went to sleep. Rolled over and briefly considered the thought again, but decided further sleep took precedence.

Dinner: Sourdough Chicken Club, medium fries, medium Coke from Jack In The Box. Not as good as the last time I went there, they skimped a bit on the lettuce tonight. It's all disgusting crap anyhow. Why did I get a medium? I always forget it comes with this big-ass soda that I don't really want.

Breakfast: Pork and cabbage dumplings and gai lan with oyster sauce, jasmine tea.

Lunch: Slice of kaya toast, glass of milk. This was only supposed to be a snack, but I fell asleep instead of going for lunch.

Dinner: Smoked salmon salad from Trader Joe's... lamer than I remember it being, olives, garlic bread, crappy camembert, decaffinated Earl Grey tea with sugar and lemon.

Later: Vietnamese tea at Casino San Pablo. How it's different from Thai tea, I do not know. Back home had a chunk of baguette, finished off the olives and camembert, hot water with lemon juice and a pinch of sugar.

Breakfast: Holy shit! I ate breakfast two days in a row. This morning I went over to Daimo, since I'm unaware of any other options for congee in this part of the East Bay. Got a breakfast special ("One from column A, one from column B") with turnip cake (starch, pointless carbs... I'll skip it in the future) and congee with thousand year egg and shredded pork. No great surprises, it was all utterly average, after all it is Daimo, but nothing was bad and the service and general atmosphere this morning was friendly enough. Their tea still sucks.

So... Daimo is serviceable for morning must-have-congee cravings in the absence of anyplace else, I suppose.

Lunch: I seem to have missed this meal somehow.

Dinner: Sourdough baguette, perfectly awful camembert from Trader Joe's, Italian olive assortment from Whole Paycheck Foods, nibbled at a tomato and mozarella salad, also from Whole Paycheck Foods, which was less than stellar, drank an entire bottle of Rosemont Cabernet. Ate some grapes later, had a little more bread, cheese and olives as a snack. Drank a glass of mugicha, then a glass of milk. Passed out.

Breakfast: Pork and egg bun and a Vietnamese coffee at Cam Huong. This marks the first time I've eaten an actual breakfast in probably at least a month.

Lunch-like munchies: Cha shu from the 99 Ranch deli, green seedless grapes, mugicha.

Dinner: Slice of veggie pizza in Santa Cruz, iced tea. Chai latte from Lulu Carpenter's. Later, a slice of cheese pizza and a Coca-Cola.

Snack: Split an order of ginger and green onion with oyster sauce lo mein at some place a door or two down from King Tin (which was closed) in San Francisco, I had Tsing Tao to drink. Kind of on the greasy side, but the taste was good, which is more than I can say for the past few times I've had that dish. (i.e., Daimo)

Beverage: Glass of 1% milk.

Lunch: Kung Pao chicken, Henry's shredded pork (with egg and spinach), steamed rice, tea, ice water at Henry's Hunan in San Francisco. Supposedly they're known for their Kung Pao being tear-inducingly spicy, but I didn't find it all that painful. And believe me, I wanted searing, "bawl your eyes out and roll around on the floor begging for mercy" style pain. Ah well, I've tried it.

Snack: Cherry turnover from Gastronom on Geary, half of a bottle of fizzy mineral water (seltzer water?) from Georgia (the country, not the state) that Justin didn't want. (didn't realize it was carbonated)

Beverage: Raspberry Italian soda at Zephyr coffee shop on Balboa in San Francisco.

Dinner: Medium bowl of rice noodle soup with fish ball, shrimp, squid and bonlesschickensliceofpork at New Pagolac, hot tea. Could barely muster the energy to eat, I was so fried, but I managed to down all of the protien-source bits and nursed the broth, then drove home in a near stupor, stopping off at Krispy Kreme in Pinole for a medium decaf and, temptation struck, a single glazed sour cream cake donut.

Cocktail: Raspberry mojito, fried anchovy-stuffed olives at Enrico's in San Francisco. Went over there to meet Justin and listened to a set by Lavay Smith.

Dinner: Rice plate with pork chop, shredded pork and fried egg at Vietnam II (I think?) on Broadway in San Francisco, a Tsing Tao to drink.

Beverage: Peach Calpis Water out of a vending machine in Nihonmachi.

Later: Slice of mediocre mushroom pizza and a bottle of water at some nondescript place near all of the strip clubs in San Francisco.

Beverage: Glass of mugicha.

Dinner: Thought of going to New Pagolac, but it was getting too late so went out driving aimlessly. Considered Daimo, but wasn't too hot on that idea figuring I'd just regret it, anyway.

Eventually gave up and went to Jack In The Box and got pretty much the same thing as yesterday... sourdough chicken club, a Coke and this time with curly fries, of which I can report... same shit, different toilet. Drove around aimlessly through El Cerrito a bit more, then went to Krispy Kreme for a cup of coffee.

Ordered a large mocha with 2% milk. Took a while for them to get it to me, and when they did the guy just handed it to me then ran off, not taking my money. I waited until he came back, but apparently he meant to do that, telling me that he took too long and that it was on the house, and then gave me 2 free doughnuts as well. Damn, now that's customer service!

I mean, it's no big skin off of their backs to give away the occasional brewed beverage or free blobs of fried dough, but it's still something that quite surprised me, and certainly actions like that will generate a lot of goodwill towards an establishment.

Later: Sliced turkey, chunk of cheese, mustard, handful of raisins, bowl of miso soup, glass of mugicha.

Snack: Box of raisins.

Dinner: 2 fish tacos, shrimp tostada, horchata from the Mariscos de Sinaloa truck in Oakland.

Later: Sourdough chicken club sanwich meal with fries and a watery Coke from Jack In The Box. 2 original glazed doughnuts (though I only orded and was charged for one) and a medium decaf coffee from Krispy Kreme in Pinole.

Lunchlike: Slice of the carrot cake my housemate Rachel made last night.

Dinner: #43 at New Pagolac, grilled shrimp and barbecued pork over vermicelli, and a ca phe sua da. The nuoc mam was weak and watery for what must be the first time ever there, very suprising. Hopefully this was just a one time occurance. Everything was a bit blah this evening, actually... guess it was an off night all around. Pretty busy, so maybe they were distracted under pressure.

180 dB karaoke started up around I guess 9:30 PM. I whipped out the MiniDisc for one song, and even enduring that was probably too much for my already ailing ears.

Late-night whatever meal: A couple slices of water-logged smoked turkey, mushy Monterey Jack cheese and mustard. A handful of seedless green grapes. Small glass of milk. Weight Watcher's faux-SouthWest style chicken and stuff with rice entree, which I swear had no more than 6 tiny little chunks of chicken. The whole thing was pathetic. And I can't believe they called the sauce it was in "spicy" on the package. Had to douse it with some Pico Pica just ot make it taste like anything. As that was miniscule, at best, I also nuked a "roasted potato au gratin with broccoli" one, too. Similarly pathetic. Cardboard Velveeta nightmare. Dashed it with black pepper and a little salt, but it was of little use. Won't be buying any of those again.

Had a small slice of Rachel's carrot cake and a glass of water for dessert, thereby negating the supposedly "health conscious" microwave bullshit entirely.

I really miss Japanese convenience store food.

Whatever: Two slices of kaya toast. Attempted to make coffee, but either the can of Cafe du Monde I have is really old, or I burnt the stuff preparing it cowboy style. (probably the latter) Took two sips and chucked it. Ah well, nice idea.

Dinner: 4 piece spicy (yeah, right) chicken dinner with coleslaw, biscuit and a Coke from Popeye's.

Beverage: Jasmine tea.

Late-night snack: Prepacked Japanese rice, natto with raw quail egg, umeboshi.

Snack: Box of raisins, several glasses of mugicha.

Breakfast:

Lunch: Two chicken and two al pastor tacos, orange Jarritos soda (I ordered tamarindo, but whatever... probably worked out better, anyway) from the taco truck in front of Food Barn on Rumrill Road.

Dinner: Justin rang me at 2:15am, went to Daimo. Salt and pepper ribs, kung pao chicken and steamed rice. The waitstaff were none too happy to see us at 2:30am, and topped themselves this evening for worst service ever. Ditto on the food. Never quite haute cuisine, their "consistently mediocre" Cantonese fare couldn't even live up to that dubious distinction.

Lunch: Nissin curry udon, which actually came with a sealed packet of real udon noodles, not the Cup Noodle-style dehydrated things that don't really resemble udon at all.

I was trying to figure out the directions and the unusual package, but understood too late that the odd perforated foil half-covering of the bowl was there to serve as single-use strainer, whereby you would immerse your udon in boiling water for a few minutes, pour it off, then add the various packets of seasoning and whatnot. It turned out okay as curry udon soup anyway tho'.

Water to drink, Fuji apple.

Beverage: Three (!) cans of Suntory Boss Coffee while driving home from The West Bay... "On Business", "Intermission" and "Fine Roast".

Dinner: Early (for me) dinner of little items purchased at the Japanese-market-formerly-known-as-Maruwa in San Francisco's Nihonmachi... oknomiyakai, kinpira gobo, sansai bibimba, sunomono, packaged gohan with shiso seasoning, (not sure if it's technically furikake if there's no sesame seeds) sweet bean assortment the name of which escapes me at the moment, glass of mugicha.

Midnight Snack: Natto, sansai bibimba, leftover gohan with shiso and wasabi furikake, mugicha, small azuki bean sweet.

Dinner: 4 piece dinner with biscuit and red beans and rice from Popeye's, Coca-Cola. Asked for spicy, don't think I got it though. Noticing there are some really cute Asian girls working at that Popeye's, maybe I should go in and order sometime.

Finished off the last Breyer's vanilla bean ice cream, about 2 scoops worth.

Beverage: Several glasses of mugicha.

Lunch: Handful of trail mix on my way to a consulting job.

Dinner: Shrimp rolls over vermicelli and a ca phe sua da at New Pagolac. It seemed exceptionally well balanced this evening, the sweetness and salt of the fish sauce matching delightfully with the abundant mint and Holy basil and the succulent shrimp rolls. Killer, as usual.

Midnight snack: Sliced ham luncheon meat, Swiss cheese, mustard, 2 carrots, sleepytime tea.