life goes on in SF-O

Yikes, just a quick one. I’ll be coming back to SF Thursday late night (6/14) and flying back to NYC (6/17) early pm. It’s already been a whole month since I arrived in NYC.

Quick overview of last week =)

It was all a blur since i found this little bug in bed with me (photos to come) one morning. Showed it to Lucia, she said "BED BUG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I freaked out with her and ordered the apt management to take care of it . . . turned out it was justa Spider Beetle or something like that that doesn’t eat human blood/flesh.

At the same time I coughed my guts out for a week. Didn’t go to work one day cuz I couldn’t sleep. Went to NYU Downtown Hospital emergency room. Doctor said it’s probably some allergic reaction to the not so clean air in NY  . . . not infectious, not enough mucus to gimme antibiotics. Just a dry cough. But she gave me liquid vicodin and Flonase. Fare enough. I can sleep again.

Sunday I was so procrastinating (didn’t want to go to work WWWAAAHHHH). So I went running across the Brooklyn Bridge all the way, found my way onto the Manhattan Bridge, then ran back to Manhattan on a different route. Landed right in the middle of Chinatown =) It was soooooo cool cuz Manhattan Bridge is the one where the subway lines cross the river? I’ll just call it a body of water. Some of you get so technical about these things. Oh shit, I was just staring at this blinky ad in the right frame for 5 minutes. Must resist. So when I was running across the Manhattan Bridge, 4 subway trains zoomed past me from 2 feet away, I couldn’t help staring and smiling . . . people on da train must’ve thought I was nuts. It’s a relatively quiet bridge compared to Brooklyn Bridge. No tourists at all! I can remember scenes from "As good as it gets", "Saving Face" (2 of my fav movies, check’em out). . . where they show the characters ride the train to get to Manhattan from Brooklyn. AND I was running on the same bridge. Awesome =) I am.

Last night I went to this Jamaican takeout place by NYU called Jamaican Flavors. GOOD LORD, their curry goat on rice was heavenly. Second only to China First’s (Clement and the single digit avenues in SF) lamb claypot Canto style. The goat was oozing with goat flavor it stayed for a day and a half. I can prove it by burping in yo face 24 hours after I’ve consumed the next batch.

I started telling myself to go try a new restaurant or take-out place every night no matter what. Next stop is Cercle Rouge. Oh, Wendy and I went to ACME Cajun tonight in NOHO. Collard green was v good. The sauteed spinach with garlic was also v good. But I’ve had better fried chicken at Popeye’s (Wendy’s gonna get mad at me, never gonna take me anywhere anymore).

Oh and I went to this Thai place that I wanted to trash: Budtharasa
A sorry excuse for a Thai take-out place. I ordered Pad See Eew. It took her 20 minutes to make it. Lucky she didn’t ask me how it was, I would’ve made her cry and wished she was not a Thai person. She needs to:
1. marinate the chicken for at least 15 min or have enough flavor in the noodles to spread to the dry chicken breast pieces
2. add sweet dark soy sauce in the frying pan
3. add more eggs
4. add minced garlic for heaven’s sake
5. some sugar would not hurt since it’s so flavorless
6. less black pepper, I’m trying to taste the noodles, not the pepper. I would’ve ordered a shaker/grinder of fresh black pepper if I wanted to taste the latter.

That’s about all that’s needed for the Pad See Eew she tried to serve me. I mean, respect your job whatever you do. The Hair Color Technician Frankie at HAIR, Festival Walk, Hong Kong made me realize that it creates an aura around you when you really respect your job and act accordingly, no matter what you do.

Will add more pix and links later =)

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