It's an Exciting World

Steph, Jeremy, and I went to Zeni for some tasty Ethiopian food.  It was very good and we got the three things that we’d found most tasty in the several times that we’ve been there: Foule, Gomen Kitfo, and Yemizir Wat.  We managed to finish off the entire dish, which is the first time we’ve done that since I’ve been going there.  This is usually because we don’t start on the bottom bread until the toppings are nearly finished, but this time I started digging into the bottom as soon as it was possible, and we didn’t get any refills on the bread rolls.  I was getting a caffeine headache, and they didn’t have any caffeinated beverages, since their fountain drink machine was broken.

Nick invited Steph and I out to Koi Palace for dinner on New Years.  We got the Peking duck and it was very tasty.  There were two other preparations of duck, but they weren’t nearly as good.  Steph got some tofu and noodle dishes and I really liked those as well.  There were also some soup dumplings as the highlight of the meal.  We ate with some Boxers and former Boxers (people who work at Box).  They were all nice and fun to be around.

For Dad’s birthday we went out to dinner at Goin’ Coastal.  It had a very California feeling to it, but many of the places close to Piedmont Park have that feeling.  The food was pretty good, but I realized while looking at the menu; I’m not really a fan of seafood.  The thing I like most about seafood restaurants is that they usually have really tasty rolls.

Dad, Mom, and I went to the Ru San’s near little 5.  We stopped by the Best Buy beforehand.  Kim joined us, but Jeff and Lesley weren’t able to.  Dad was strange and said I could only order one thing, so I ordered a three course dinner with a huge sushi plate as the third course.  It was all tasty, and dad picked at the first two courses.  I ate all of it and I really liked it.

I had a nice walk to lunch with Brian and Brittany.  We ate burgers at a place called Farm Burger, that gets lots of it’s food from local sources.  I got some tasty sweet potato fries, and they got some homemade root beer.  We went back to my parent’s place and I showed them my Thailand photos.  Brian and Brittany were kind enough to try out my game.  They seemed to like it and I’ll have to push it out more widely once I get a little bit further in the game development.

Stephanie and I went to dinner and had a good time about it.  We got a lot of small dishes and shared them.  They had some of the best stuffed grape leaves I’ve ever had; even Steph liked them and she doesn’t normally like stuffed grape leaves.  The beet salad was really good, and we got fries for good measure on filling up.  We got desert which was pumpkin bread pudding and galaktoboureko, a dish that had cream filled fried pastries with ice cream.  The bread pudding was good but the other dish was better.

This dinner was for us knowing each other about 2 years now.  It has been the best 2 years of my life for sure.

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Steph and I stopped by the Chocolate Garage yesterday and got some really tasty chocolates.  There was one maker that we will probably sign up for a bimonthly delivery from.  He is a chocolate maker that lives in Hawaii and grows his own beans.  One of the Chocolate Garage owners let us try some of the samples he had sent her.  They were delicious.

We then stopped by the Whole Foods and got stuff for more Tom Yom, as well as some milk for hot chocolate and cheese making.  We went back to Steph’s place and met up with Jeff, Patty, and Candice.  They all had some of Steph’s amazing cheese, and we talked about company stuff.