Kind of spontaneously, Justin and I decided to try out this place in Torrance. I thought it was a ramen place just because it was a Shin Sen Gumi. But! I'm glad we waited it out and got a table, because nearly everything we ordered was really good! :) And they yell greetings and kanpai at you, making you feel like you really need to get drunk! Such an excitable atmosphere, lol.
We got lunch at Savor's, a place that's in walking distance of work and has arepas. I didn't use the picture of the arepa I ordered because, well, quite frankly, I wolfed it down before taking a picture I actually liked.
Later that evening I spent my time frantically running from location to location, shooting photos for our project. It was fun, though! There's something exhilirating about working under a deadline XD
In a flourish of haste to get photos ready for our project, I prowled the campus for photo opportunities. This is a picture of the art department's office. We didn't end up using it, but it was nice of them to allow us to take a picture of it. :D
We went to SGV to pick up ingredients but also to have lunch. This time, armed with cash, we were ready to go to J&J to try their xiao long bao. It was great, although we kept picking up pieces that had become deflated/extracted of all its delicious soup because the steamers had made holes in them :( That was disappointing. We also got the Shanghai noodles; those were pretty decent.
For dinner, I made mabo tofu and banh bot loc. The mabo tofu turned out great; future lesson for the banh bot loc: make the layers thinner, lol. I made ours really thick, oops X: Oh well. We had ALL that food between three people. My gosh. We also watched "The Hard Times Of RJ Berger," a show I didn't know exist but whose characters reminded me extremely of Harry Potter and Ron Weasley. XD
We did sketches for concepts for our second project. We came up with some interesting ideas, but of course the second round of sketches should prove to be a more fruitful venture.
After work, my coworkers and I met up with an old colleague at a Korean bar. Koreatown -- always full of adventures. Haha. Good times :)
Breakfast - Bánh giò ... Vietnamese "tamale," with rice dough instead of corn, and with pork, shallots, mushrooms and a quail egg instead of whatever is usually in a tamale--all wrapped in a banana leaf. My favorite snack.
Lunch - JNJ Cheeseburger from JNJ Burger Shack. Reunion with Nick, even though we last saw him on Friday (these guys and their bromances -- it's cute, really).
Dinner - Lamb loin chops, marinated with olive oil, kosher salt, thyme, and rosemary. Seared and then cooked at 400 degrees for 10 minutes. I made the polenta (totally winged it -- read a lot of different recipes and decided to mix in milk, butter, parmesan cheese and some chicken broth with the polenta I picked up from TJ's) and spinach, too. Accompanied by a nice glass of pinot.
Dessert - Cupcakes from Susiecakes -- a yearly tradition. Thanks Justin :)
Ouch.
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