Food Log

A log of uber yummy food I've had since starting my adult life!

Mediterannean-Lebanese (allegedly) There's a Mediterannean place on the corner a couple blocks from our place that according to my husband serves Middle Eastern food prepared by Hispanic people, which is the best combination you could ever have the pleasure of trying. I've been sick for a week and unable to eat anything but saltines, so my husband and I went to have the our first big fancy meal in a while.
Hummus and Pita: tbh I've never had such soft, fluffy pita bread in my entire life, almost with that steamed-bun sort of quality. The hummus was tangy, rich, and layered with spice and a really high quality, luxurious olive oil. We got a huge amount, and took some home :3
Beef Shawarma Sandwich: Beef, tomato, red onion, lettuce, and sauce in a soft wrap. The first taste you get is the warm, gentle tinge of cinnamon?? It was suuuuuper delicious, especially when mixed with the fatty cut of beef, and the acidity and sweetness of the onion and tomato. It had a slight lemony/cilantro combination to it too, and came with a super delicious dipping sauce, which was mayo based. All the components were perfectly balanced in terms of intensity, and ended up being such an interesting, delicious dish. I kept eating the sauce with the pita bc it was so good lol.
Deluxe Platter: Kafta, gyro, rotisserie chicken, and steak, with yellow rice and salad. Everything here was soooooooo good. Kafta is a meatloaf, and in this case I believe it was beef and lamb. It was tender and had a really nice citrusy undertone! It went really well with the rice. The gyro meat was sweet and had that satisfying munching texture you get from slightly more chewy meat, and I liked having it with the salad :D The chicken was super juicy, perfectly seasoned, and had a caramelized crust on the outside from grilling/rotisserie that was really awesome. The steak was honestly way higher quality than I thought, too; the whole platter was delicious. The tomatoes in the salad were super juicy and sweet, and the rice was aromatic! I've never seen my husband eat so fast in my entire life lol.
Ferrero Cheesecake: Not just a cheesecake with a Ferrero Rocher chocolate on the top! The cheesecake had chopped nuts on the top, AND the crust had that subtle, nutty aroma to it that rounded off the dessert really well. It was also super cute, with chocolate syrup, whipped cream, and waffle cone pieces decorating the plate. Really, really good.
Verdict: I would love to go there again and try what else it has to offer! Every single dish we tried there I would rate a 5/5, and the waitress was super cute and sweet, and the restaurant was the cutest place ever. For about $80, I'd say it was a really awesome place to go on a weekend date or something like that.
 
 
Vietnamese-French Okay we didn't really try the french food here. But we went to celebrate one of my papers getting accepted to a conference :D
Shrimp spring rolls: Super yummy. The bean sprouts were sweet and crispy, the shrimp was plump and juicy, and the peanut butter dipping sauce was really tasty... Would probably say that I don't think it should've been $5 for just two rolls, though...
Wagyu Pho: Sublty rich beef bone broth, satisfyingly textured rice noodles, again crispy bean sprouts and tangy lime. The wagyu was cubed up and simmered with the soup until delicious, and the brisket in it was so soft and tender that it blew me away. I thought it was super yummy, but I can't help but think that the soup lacked a lot of the complex cilantro-fueled spice network that pho usually has...
Chicken Rice: My favorite dish we had that night! Rice was aromatic and fragrant and made with coconut milk, the chicken was incredibly tender and glazed with a sweet sauce. Sauce was accompanied by crunchy garlic chips and peanuts (probably). Truly a stellar combo that made me want to have Singaporean chicken rice...
Verdict: The food was good! But a little lacking? Perhaps another trip and different dishes would raise my opinion of it, but the wagyu pho was sort of their headlining dish and it didn't really do it for me, and I think some of the dishes were overpriced. They do have boba that is pretty okay too, but I don't know if I'd go back unless I was really craving Vietnamese food nearby.
 
 
Peruvian It's so crazy that this place is just a sports bar with two locations because the food is literally fine-dining quality. The appetizers were the most delicious seafood I've had in a really long time, and I'm Asian...
Mixed Ceviche: Dude the ceviche................... The sweet potato, the huge sweet corn kernels, the fried corn kernels in that tangy citrusy sauce, the SEAFOOD?????? God I've never had better seafood in my entire life.
Choritos a la Chalaca: These mussels were so good. There were so good. God they were so good. I'm getting hungry just thinking about it. Similar taste to the ceviche but so uniquely different... It had more of that marine taste, but not in an unpleasant way. I don't know if I've had such good shellfish in me entire fucking life.
Lomo Saltado: The beef was cut into chunks rather than strips and was steak quality... the tomatoes were juicy and delicious... the potato wedges were crunchy on the outside and softly steamed on the inside... The savory and sweet sauce mixed so well with all the components together... Delectable
Jalea Mixta: The deep fried yucca!!!! My god. The fried seafood was good, but I'd never had yucca before.
Sauces: THE DIPPING SAUCESSSSS I'll never forget them... we got three that were sooooo good. One was an oil based herb sauce, one was mayo based, and they were so fucking yummy. Also the deep friend corn kernels boggled my mind it was insane.
Banana Cheesecake: This wasn't just a cheesecake. Dude it was a banana-based cheesecake filling with a deep fried crust on the outside. It was sooooo bonkers it was delicious. Moist, soft, sweet, aromatic on the inside, crunchy, exciting, crisp on the outside. My god. Who thought up these dishes.
Verdict: Out of all the places I've mentioned in this log, this is probably the best. It certainly was the best seafood I've ever fucking had!!!
 
 
Snacks My cute husband is Argentinian and he got a bunch of snacks for his birthday! I won't go into the details of each, but here are the ones I've had: Opera Wafers, Anillos Terrabusi rings, Lincoln Terrabusi chocolate flavor, Sonrisas smiley cookies :D, Don Satur Biscuits (Bizcochos Salado), and some more. I find that the snacks in the US are all sugar and fat or salt and no nuance. These snacks were subtly sweet or citrusy, or salty, or yeasty... super delicious. An unrelated snack I also like for the same reason are the Japanese matcha Oreos!

 
 
Actually Fancy Vietnamese Cuisine My family is from South East Asia, so when I eat Vietnamese food I'm often reminded of food from that area. In itself, Vietnamese food often feels like a joyful collision of tastes, a celebration of flavors that have all come together in one place, for better or for worse. I know firsthand how Asian people hate each other, so I'm not even going to begin to talk about Vietnam... End of the day, the chef at the place we went to is a genius. You can tell that dishes that have been historical records of exchanges and interactions were transformed into something even more than that. I've never eaten food that felt like a narrative or like art before this so I'm not sure how to describe it T0T It's like the chef decided to take the dishes into her own hands and continue to tell the story herself... something like that...

We've been here multiple times so I won't talk about individual dishes right now, but I'd highly recommend going to Z-Asian for yourself, if you're in Orlando, FL.
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Media Log
This is a log of media I've watched and don't really have a spot on my media shrine page, but I still want to talk about them.
 
 
Muppets in Space: A well written Muppets movie with soul, humor, and heart. Perfect to watch in the company of good friends and people you love, would watch again with my family. No other notes. Best movie I watched all year. 10/10
 
 
The Day I Became a God: Have you ever felt insulted by an anime? Do you want to? Then you can watch this show. The first four episodes are totally fine, charming even, with a cute main protagonist and outlandish antics. Then it quickly dives into an anime equivalent of the saddest story a middle schooler could possibly think of, with lazy, hamfisted sob stories and tragedies which are not told well or handled well. It's basically like a kid trying to make you sad by being like "MY DOG DIED!!! ISN'T THAT SAD??? CAN I HAVE MONEY FOR ROBLOX NOW??" except it's a 45 year old man going "AND THEN SHE BECAME A VEGETABLE!! THAT MAKES YOU SAD, RIGHT??? THIS IS THE SADDEST ANIME YOU'VE EVER WATCHED, RIGHT???" and you're like "yeah that sucks that she became disabled, but you made that happen.... for no reason..... also I'm not sad I'm more mad that you made that happen and thought I was enough of a sucker to be sad over it". Full of plot holes. Jun Maeda is good at music, though.... 2/10.
 
 
Migi & Dali: This is a weird one that got me with the trailer. I ended up liking it, but it was still weird... It's got kind of a charming weirdness to it, rather than it being just weird and bad. The villains were bizarre and genuinely evil, the side characters were quirky but endearing, in the end. If you get bored with typical shounen or isekai anime, I'd recommend trying it out! 7/10
 
 
Shinsekai Yori: Another odd one, but less weird than Migi & Dali. It's like if the Promised Neverland anime were fleshed out more. It's also like four animes in one. It takes its time wrapping up plot lines, making the ending somewhat satisfying, if bewildering, and a lot of characters die, even though you expected them to be main characters... the art is gorgeous at times, bad at others, and it's kind of a rollercoaster ride in terms of tone. I can appreciate the dedication to telling a story end to end, and the creativity that went into making it the craziest story you've ever heard. 8/10.
 
 
Higurashi: This is an extremely gory horror anime. I love how the first season and the second season cover the same set of events, but the first season is more campy shock-horror and the second season is psychological horror. It tells its story well, and it takes turns that you'll never in a million years expect. It's a little scattered in terms of plot (for obvious reasons once you know what it's about), so there's a lot to keep track of, but they tie it all up well. If you don't mind the slow burn and enjoy mystery horror, I'd highly recommend this one! 8/10.
 
 
Passengers: I just need everyone to know how much I hate this movie. I hate this movie. I hate Chris Pratt, but even if he were not in this movie I would've still hated it. I hate this movie. I hate it. 0/10
 
 
Interstellar: People speak really highly of this movie, and it's gorgeous visually and musically, and I guess that acting is good, but this was a bad movie. The writing is bad!! I am a physicist, so maybe being able to tell it's scientifically inaccurate makes me hate it more than the normal person, but it's written bad even if you don't know anything about science. You like Interstellar? Can you tell me what the gravity problem is? Can you tell me why Matt Damon tried to kill Matt McConaughey instead of just admitting he lied and asking them to get him off the planet (which they would have)? Can you tell me why they kept trying to find the "surface" of the planet Matt Damon was on? Can you tell me why time dilation was so harsh on the water planet, but the gravity of the black hole hadn't pulled the planet into it yet? What the fuck was the gravity problem?????? 1/10.
 
 
2001: A Space Odyssey: 0/10. Sorry. If you want to debate it with me, feel free.
 
 
The Martian: Actually good sci-fi movie that doesn't try to talk out of its ass, has characters that act according to motivations instead of randomly doing things for the sake of it, and are appealing in terms of personality. You actually care about them and their predicaments, and their predicaments aren't weirdly contrived scenarioes that occur because the writers needed drama. Not always scientifically accurate, but not trying to be. 9/10