Carrots, etc.: January 2009

Friday, January 30, 2009

Snacks & Sweets

How can that be a bad thing?

I am an Indian food novice, so an Indian buffet seemed perfect for me. And it was!

Gokul Snacks & Sweets has a great vegetarian buffet. None of us are vegetarians, but I am not opposed to a meatless meal from time to time. Everything I tried was extremely good, but my two favorite dishes were Delhi's chaat and yellow daal. The tamarind and mint chutneys did it for me with the chaat. The place where the hot and sweet met was just perfect.

Dennis and Chris both preferred their gulab jamun (they called them wet donuts) and mango lassis. Chris also took a big taste of hot paprika powder.

The service was very friendly and helpful. I will definitely order take out from work. I think I'll go with their "tiffin for home" for my first try. With mango ice cream :)

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

What I'm reading

Twilight Stephenie Meyer

Why: my son asked me to
Thoughts: oh the teenage dramas; vampires are not as sexy as they used to be

Friday, January 23, 2009

The year of the Ox

Our Chinese coworkers very graciously served us a Chinese New Year meal today at work. I ate a chicken liver, which sounds very boring but was exciting to me!

There were more adventurous options like cold chicken kidneys in long noodles, marinated beef tendons, and some mixed seafood that I could not identify, but I was not quite that brave.

I did have three different kinds of spring rolls, the aforementioned chicken liver, a couple of veggie / noodle combinations, and "sushi" with bacon and cucumber in it, an unknown yellow curry, some rice with cabbage in it, and a green bean cake, which sounds gross but is not.

My favorite things are the sweets. Someone always makes bahn da lon, which I think is Vietnamese; steamed tapioca layer "cake." The bubble tea this year had seaweed in it. I've never had it that way before, but so far I have not met a coconut milk dish I haven't liked.