NICHOLAS KEY

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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Thai dinner - June 6th

This is the fourth part of my birthday celebration. Phew, four consecutive days :) William was with us this time. The usual gang of three - Nicholas, Leo, William. We went to a Thai restaurant along Geary.

Notice that I wore the same red shirt for the four days of birthday celebration. I thought it an auspicious color but I don't have spare red shirt :P



























This is also another good eat. :D

Thai Cafe
3407 Geary Blvd
San Francisco, CA 94118


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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Mexican dinner - June 5th

Alright, this is the third part of the four-part sequel of Nicholas Key's birthday celebration. One more entry to go :P

Leo and I went to a Mexican restaurant in SF downtown. I ordered nothing but Mexican food. Well, that's why I am there. Had corn chips with salsa sauce, tortilla soup, taco, burrito and enchiladas and not forgetting a can of imported mexican beer "Modelo Especial".

Initially I asked a waiter what I am getting for my birthday dinner at Chevys and he told me he'll get that arranged. Of course, while waiting for him to come back to me, we continued eating and by the time we finished our dinner, two of them came towards our table and sang a mexican style birthday song and presented me a gift - a Mexican hat and treated us ice cream.




































It was already 9.30pm when we paid the bill. I wore the hat walking along the street to the bus stop and the experience was very very exciting. Few reasons, first, the policemen or immigration officers might jumped out of nowhere and perform a search onto me thinking that I am a lost Mexican that crossed the border and blindly ended up in San Francisco. haha.

Other than that, vehicle drivers will at least take a look at this "Mexican pedestrian". I even saw some drivers stare at me in disbelieve. lol. I told Leo that I felt weird wearing the hat walking on the street. He said "Don't worry, all the weird people are out at night. You are no exception". funnny ...

I even wore the hat in the bus. You can actually see how the passengers look at you. :P Anyway it's fun. I told Leo that I should have gotten myself a Mexican poncho to convince other people that it was Halloween.

My conclusion - this Chevys Fresh Mex at 3rd St is quite a good eat. The service is good, the waiter that served us was very patient and courteous. Check it out at:

Chevys Fresh Mex
201 3rd St
San Francisco
CA 94103


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Monday, June 04, 2007

Birthday celebration - June 4th (Part 2)

This is the second part of my birthday celebration miniseries :P

I bought myself a cheesecake - shared it with my landlord and Leonid (my housemate). It's so cheesy and that is exactly the texture I love about eating cheesecake. Prepared two dishes and had Kettle potato chips as dessert.

What a glutton chubby Nicholas Key! haha




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Birthday celebration - June 3rd (Part 1)

I celebrated my 23rd birthday for four consecutive days :) Can you imagine that? I'm lazy to elaborate how I celebrated my birthday in a long-winded manner - prefer to write my story in points-style.

This is the first part of four "miniseries" of my birthday celebration.

Kenn brought me to a Malaysian restaurant in Daly City on a Sunday evening. It's called the Banana Island. The food was not bad after all. I can say that the food is the closest to Malaysia.

Ordered 3 items:
Taufu, kangkung, aluminum-wrapped sweet sour pork

Actually we ordered a dish of roti canai but before I remembered to take a picture of the dish, the serving was already finished :P haha. That summed up to 4 dishes. Pictures of the food are as shown below.











This is the address of the restaurant if you plan to taste the food:
Banana Island
311 Lake Merced Blvd
Daly City, CA 94015


This is the map to Banana Island from University of San Francisco



We then headed back north to SF and had dessert in a cafe in Sunset. This is the address of the cafe:

Golden Island Cafe
1300 Noriega St
San Francisco, CA 94122


These are the desserts that Kenn recommended. Those floating pearly beads are sago.











The group picture with the birthday boy in red shirt, that's me :)

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Monday, May 28, 2007

Japanese food for dinner :)

- had unagi and sushi for dinner at a japanese restaurant










Map to the restaurant from USF:

Sakana Bune
5701 Geary Blvd
San Francisco, CA 94121


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May 27, 2007 - Part 1 [Wine tasting]

- went to Mumm Napa in Napa Valley for wine tasting
- tasted both red wine and white wine



















Map to Mumm Napa from USF:

Mumm Napa Valley
8445 Silverado Trail,
Uninc Napa County,
CA


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May 27, 2007 - Part 2 [Italian dinner]

- went to a restaurant and had vegetable soup as appetizer, sole dore as main course, and spumoni as dessert for dinner
- this is how sole dore is prepared [click here]










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Sunday, March 18, 2007

Borsch - the Russian red soup



My coursemate, Leonid Budchenko (who hails from Russia) invited me over to his house to try the Russian red soup, Borsch, pronounced as bao-rshch (борщ). It's really RED!

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Veal and sushi




The other two unique dishes.

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Monday, March 12, 2007

Sushi !!! (Part 3)





Tada!!! These are the other two mouth-watering and eye-catching sushi dishes. They do look presentable and, of course, yummy! :)

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Sunday, March 11, 2007

Sushi !!! (Part 2)











I made another attempt today to make a better rolled sushi and this is how they look like.

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Saturday, March 10, 2007

Sushi !!! (Part 1)



It's Spring Break and I made these sushi by myself to celebrate the much anticipated recess :)
Yummy!
These are the ingredients for the irresistible and delectable sushi:
[1] Nori sheets (seaweed sheets)
[2] Rice
[3] Cucumber
[4] Avocado
[5] Salmon
[6] Shrimps
[7] Mayonaise

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