Heh. Maybe he'll find a willing taker for theOther than being mostly footloose and fancy free, he tends to be into
reading material.
the reading material himself... And he'd better take all the genealogy stuff, he professes to be interested in that himself... and I inherited everything from his father's side from Richard's Mom... ;)
One does get to that point, true... ;/Dunno really how much I'll actually scavenge... ;) We shall see... :)
So we let the scavengers take over. Which makes
me think why on earth I allowed you to be among
them.
Richard and I confused a restaurant proprietor yesterday... Edith wanted to go to Nam Vang, a Vietnamese family restaurant (I reported on an earlier visit there with my friend Cathy to Ruth Hafley recently).. My second visit there, Richard and Edith's first... I ordered duck noodle soup, which I'd tried to order first time there and they were out of it,And to me... there were plenty of good-sized duck pieces in the soup,
That seems perfectly normal to me.
each with some amount of bone in it... which might have been a turnoff
for some, but I didn't mind it...
Richard ordered the porkchop plate, and Edith ordered a beef pho (having asked the young waiter what HE would be eating at home from theOh, I knew that... but there was no telling Edith that it was
You see, HE isn't going to know how to
interpret that question. Even if he said so,
it's far from certain that he would be
eating the pho at home.
impertinent and irrelevant as well... ;) The kid did volunteer that he
liked the plain beef better than the one with beef and meatball...since
he didn't care so much for the other... but he did seem just a bit embarrassed at her questioning....
Richard said, it's on the menu... (G) I explained a little further,Dunno.. they might just not have had any left the first day I tried to
that I liked duck, liked trying new-to-me items, etc... I almost claimed my honorary Asian status, but stopped a little short of that... (G)
So they had to find the duck?
order it... the other one I was interested in also wasn't your typical "roundeye" interest... it had blood sausage and I think maybe pork belly
in it...
Apparently "white folks' don't order the porkchop plate all that often, either, nor ask for tea... Richard wondered about what the tea leaf was, the taste and odor reminded him of the leaf that "dump" comes in for dimsum... so the gentleman checked it out for us... turned out to be pandan leaf.... that seemed to impress him, too, that we appreciated an "odd" tea... ;) I suspect that we became memorable... he did rememberIt made an interesting tea, and went well with the food... though I do
me already from the first visit...
I'm not a fan of pandan except as a flavoring
for rice.
prefer green tea, generally... :)
On 06-11-18 04:23, Michael Loo <=-
spoke to Nancy Backus about 860 Asian was Nat Geo <=-
Waiter, there's a bone in my soup! A few days
ago I found a bone in my sausage; closer
investigation showed that it was yet another
piece of broken tooth.
Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 06-11-18 04:23 <=-
Heh. Maybe he'll find a willing taker for theOther than being mostly footloose and fancy free, he tends to be into
reading material.
the reading material himself... And he'd better take all the genealogy stuff, he professes to be interested in that himself... and I inherited everything from his father's side from Richard's Mom... ;)
If he keeps the house despite being footloose,
he should do fine with that. Bearing in mind that
your place looks like most of the used bookstores
I have known.
One does get to that point, true... ;/Dunno really how much I'll actually scavenge... ;) We shall see... :)
So we let the scavengers take over. Which makes
me think why on earth I allowed you to be among
them.
A good excuse to visit Dale and Gail, though.
Richard and I confused a restaurant proprietor yesterday... Edith wanted to go to Nam Vang, a Vietnamese family restaurant (I reported on an earlier visit there with my friend Cathy to Ruth Hafley recently).. My second visit there, Richard and Edith's first... I ordered duck noodle soup, which I'd tried to order first time there and they were out of it,And to me... there were plenty of good-sized duck pieces in the soup,
That seems perfectly normal to me.
each with some amount of bone in it... which might have been a turnoff
for some, but I didn't mind it...
Waiter, there's a bone in my soup! A few days
ago I found a bone in my sausage; closer
investigation showed that it was yet another
piece of broken tooth.
Richard ordered the porkchop plate, and Edith ordered a beef pho (having asked the young waiter what HE would be eating at home from theOh, I knew that... but there was no telling Edith that it was
You see, HE isn't going to know how to
interpret that question. Even if he said so,
it's far from certain that he would be
eating the pho at home.
impertinent and irrelevant as well... ;) The kid did volunteer that he liked the plain beef better than the one with beef and meatball...since
he didn't care so much for the other... but he did seem just a bit embarrassed at her questioning....
It's like my brother's frequent question to
the waiter, "what would YOU recommend?" The
proper answer being, everything's good here.
Richard said, it's on the menu... (G) I explained a little further,Dunno.. they might just not have had any left the first day I tried to
that I liked duck, liked trying new-to-me items, etc... I almost claimed my honorary Asian status, but stopped a little short of that... (G)
So they had to find the duck?
order it... the other one I was interested in also wasn't your typical "roundeye" interest... it had blood sausage and I think maybe pork belly
in it...
Ooh, that might trump even duck.
Apparently "white folks' don't order the porkchop plate all that often, either, nor ask for tea... Richard wondered about what the tea leaf was, the taste and odor reminded him of the leaf that "dump" comes in for dimsum... so the gentleman checked it out for us... turned out to be pandan leaf.... that seemed to impress him, too, that we appreciated an "odd" tea... ;) I suspect that we became memorable... he did remember me already from the first visit...It made an interesting tea, and went well with the food... though I do prefer green tea, generally... :)
I'm not a fan of pandan except as a flavoring
for rice.
I had a bratwurst flavored with vanilla last
week ... weird.
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