Honey Pig :0)

My last full day spent in SF was awesome. First, I made sure to stop by the Ferry Building to get my marcarons at Miette. Then headed to the Golden Gate Bridge. I’m not too fond of heights so we didn’t stay long. Instead, we went to the park and OMG, it is GINORMOUS!!! We actually got lost in there looking for the Japanese Tea Garden. Luckily we had some help from a cyclist couple who pulled out a map… Off the chain!! A park that requires a map…

Toilet at the pier

The Ferry Building

Miette macarons

Miette’s chocolate covered eclair. It was divine!

Moi munching on Acme bread

The Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge

Japanese Tea Garden

Japanese Tea Garden

Gotta do the Asian POSE!

We started my 2nd day at Mel’s Inn for breakfast. Then we headed to Pier 39 and made our way to Fisherman’s Wharf…got detoured along the way and managed to fit in a boat ride to Alcatraz. Came back and had dinner at Nick’s Lighthouse… It was a very long day!

Mel’s Inn for breakfast

Low Calorie Turkey Hash with over easy eggs

Pier 39

The Crab at Pier 39

The Fruit Stand

The ginormous strawberry dipped chocolate!

30 min. of free magic show

Moi posing

Crab Chowder at Crab House (Pier 39)

Garlic Bread at The Crab House (Pier 39)

Whole Roasted Crab in special garlic sauce at The Crab House (Pier 39)

Boat Ride out to Alcatraz

Beautiful sunset

Close up of Alcatraz 1

Close up of Alcatraz 2

Close up of Alcatraz 3

Fisherman’s Wharf

The food stand with boiled crabs!

The chef who boils and prepare the crab for customers

Lots of yummy crabs

Nick’s Lighthouse special

Crab Rolls

Fresh picked crab meat ready to be baptized in butter and eaten!

I got into SF friday night and so it was really late to take any pictures. We stayed at Twin Peaks, let’s just say that i will never make the mistake of not getting a hotel a month in advance again… So staying at this place was my punishment.

Well, we stayed about a block away from this awesome restaurant call HOME. From the look of it, I thought it was a diner… similar to GA Diner off Pleasant Hill. Thank goodness it wasn’t! It was so much better than I expected because the place was packed with people, it was already 12am. The menu was more surprising because it serves hearty home cooked meal with a ritzy twist. Duck spring rolls??? It was loaded with duck meat that you wouldn’t need to dig for them. And their cornbread… it is off the chain! It’s like eating cake!! It was just divine. Well I had the seafood coppiccino and it was awesome. Off to a good start already…

Anyways, below are some of the places that was spent on my official first day in SF. I was so overwhelmed by everything. So much going on soo many things to do, see, eat and buy!!! Well… we started off at the shopping center which is the Westfield Mall. Needless to say, I felt right at home!

Union Square

Macys

Inside Westfield Mall

Union Square
movie (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)

This guy is making boocoo money carving keys for a living

Welcome to China Town

Ok, this picture cost me $ so I had to post him

Me chillin’ with the monkeys

Steamed Fish at some chinese restaurant, forgot the name

Steamed “walking” Chicken

Well, i’ve finally made it to Sacramento safely. To be honest, I don’t plan on flying anywhere for a long time, especially little commuter jets and connecting flights. I don’t like the turbulences, the bad and spoiled babies or the parent who don’t know how to discipline their children, the crying and screaming of the babies on and off the plane etc… you get my drift. Or maybe I’ve only spent way too much time at the airport…

Nonetheless, i’m almost there. However, before heading that way, i’m going to visit the Jelly Belly Factory!!! I can’t freaking wait!!!

I think my enthusiam to write has vanished for the time being due to lack of sleep…

On my previous note I had mentioned that I had arrived at the Las Vegas airport… it is now 4:52, Vegas time, and yes, I am still here waiting for my 6:14am flight to Los Angeles (connecting flight) to Sacramento. I’m almost there. Just another few more agonizing hours and no more until my return!!!

Well during the wait for this flight, I actually exhausted myself to the point that my body had started shutting down on me. My feet wouldn’t take another step nor my hands can endure another drag of my luggage. I knew I couldn’t win this fight, especially when I haven’t slept all night and the time shift from Atlanta’s to Vegas. I’m like a fucking zombie, with the munchies. Well, I did managed to squeeze myself between to ladies and was unconscious for about an hour and a half. I couldn’t hear myself snoring so I hope that I didn’t, but since nobody bitch slapped me… was a good sign that I didn’t, for sure.

Let me rephrase myself, I AM A FUCKING ZOMBIE WITH THE MUNCHIES. MAD MUNCHIES. There is something wicked and evil about airports food. No matter how outrageously priced they are, you still want to buy it, at least I did. I normally never go out of my way to buy starbuck’s muffins nor some cheesy ass cardboard biscuits with styrofoam spongy eggs and generic cheddar cheese slathered in artery clogging butter with enough transfat to give an elephant a stroke….but yes, every hour of the hour that I wasn’t sleeping, I was buying nasty ass overpriced food that is nearly breaking me (besides the evil slot machines) to only find myself throwing it away. I know, I’m going straight to hell for this.

Yes I am picky about my food, life is too damn short to settle for generics you know. Even if I was poor and the root to the reason I will be forever poor is my snooty eating habits. So yeah, $3.31 (tax included) for a 20oz. bottle of aquafina is a bit cut throat for any normal human being. I can understand if the price included a server twisting the caps and pouring it into a freezed martini glass with maybe a sliced of cucumber…  but if I gotta pick the damn bottle up myself and twist my own cap and gulped it down myself…. @()*&$)(*&#$*(&$)(*@& to the 3rd power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Alas, the bottle is half emptied….  I have to admit that it was quite refreshing…

It is now 5:16am and we’ll be boarding at 5:44am. I should be in LAX around 7:30 am, maybe not even enough time to catch my next flight at 8:15 to Saramento… but thank goodness I don’t have to go through the security checkpoint again. OMG I hate that shit. I know it’s for my saftey that they want to strip everybody… but there’s gotta be a better way to handle this. We’re Americans, we’re intelligent people who always come up with new technologies to better our lives because we’re fucking lazy, the only incentive to come up with superficial neccessities. What’s with the holdup already???

Alrighty… I think my next blog will most likely be after I am in Sacramento and maybe a couple hours of shut eyes and a long overdue cold shower. Heard it’s freaking hot in sacramento.

by this disturbing humor.

It’s currently 1:16am in the morning, Vegas time of course, should be around 4ish by now in Atlanta. I’m sitting at the airport milking all their free wifi to the max and boy am I beyond stoke! It was either this or the teaser slot machines right in front of me, literally, 12 paces in front of me. I’ve already donated about $35 of my crispy dollars to the unforgiven hungry wolves. My heart filled with bitter regrets for even trying to think that I could possibly hit a free spin on the Wheel of Fortune, was very unfortunate. But oh well, I guess there’s always a “what if” floating in my head if i walked away without ever feeding those hungry wolves.

Ah, before all this mishaps, I was trying to check in so that I can just go through with the security gate, but all the damn computer at United TED is “Out of Service”. Meaning, I will have to wait another 3 hours in Vegas awaiting my flight to Sacramento-which means from here to Sacramento, is a connecting flight to LAX. Then I’ll be driving to San Francisco. Wtf is up with all this trouble, just to go to San Francisco??? I do have a fairly valid reason to have put myself through all these unnecessary flights, but now isn’t the time to explain it. As if going through all this isn’t enough to bored one to tears already.

This is my first time flying into Las Vegas Airport and let me tell you, it’s huge! I am fascinated with all the palm trees, even the fake ones circling the slot machines were nice. Ridiculous amount of shops and how conveniently is it for Starbucks to have their little booth set up right next to the slot machines? Conspiracy I say. Too bad I can’t take any pictures in here…

I’m also on a tight deadline with a huge project for an upcoming event for my company. Coincidently, they’re going to be here, yep, in Vegas to do a 3 day tradeshow about Virtualization. So i’ll be working pretty much throughout my stay in San Francisco. Can you say stress and every foul and dirty language not in the dictionary? Please sympathize for me, not that I intend to, but have succumbed to the fact that work is becoming my life… at least until its completed.

Anyways, now that i’ve started you on this oh so fabulous journey of mine to Frisco, I bid you farewell for the time being. Because I will be surfing the web and downloading junk to enhance my “dell” laptop’s performance: FUCKING SLOW.

hoasabi

My cousin Samantha is coming into town today for the whole weekend and I am stoke. She is my uncle’s daughter; he passed away April of this year due to heart failure. We’re both very excited to spend time together as we’ve lost touch for almost 18 years, practically all her life. I didn’t get to know her until her dad passed away. It’s very unfortunate but a blessing that this has help to reconnect us again.

There will be some major shopping, eating and girly stuff this weekend!! I’ll post the pictures of course!

Here’s a thursday teaser for yah! Guava Souffle!

Unfortunately, I can not express through my writings how yummy this accidental recipe has came out. I have to say that this is by far my most favorite flavor for wings besides my tamarind sauce.

hoasabi’s Guava BBQ Sauce

• 1 cup guava preserves (or guava paste)
• 1 small can of tidbits pineapple + juice
• 1/2 cup soy sauce
• 1/2 cup honey
• 1 tbsp. minced haberno peppers or any kind of peppers or hot spices you like (jalapeno should be just as good)
• 2-3 tbsp. ketchup
• 1 tbsp. minced or ground ginger
• 2 tbsp. minced garlic
• black pepper

Put everything in a sauce pan and cook until the guava is dissolved. Set aside

The Wings

• 1 lb. of chicken wings (cut up or leave whole)
• Guava BBQ Sauce
• Salt
• Butter

1. Heat oven to 375 degrees
2. Meanwhile, boil the chicken wings for about 10-15 min. Season the water with a bit salt
3. Take out and drain to make sure there are no excessive water left on the wings
4. Place on pan and smother it with butter (This will give it that extra crisp and flavor)
5. Put in oven for about 5 min. and then baste the wings with the bbq sauce
6. Repeat and cook the wings for about 25+ min. until it is crisp, ooey and gooey
7. Enjoy!

Ok, I wrote an entire blog and it’s completely destoyed when I submitted it. Don’t you just hate it when that happens?

Anyways, here’s a rough guestimation of the recipe. I recommend using a nice hot WOK. Enjoy!

• 1 1/2 cup fresh corn kernals or frozen (I recommend getting the white kernals)
• 1/2 cup julienned brussel sprouts
• 3-4 slices of turkey or regular bacon roughly snipped (using scissors because i’m lazy)
• 1 scallion chopped (use the white part for cooking and the green for garnish later)
• 1 1/2 tbsp. butter
• 2-3 cloves garlic minced
• 2-3 drizzle of olive oil
• salt + pepper to taste
• the asian fried s

1. heat your wok to medium high and put in the oil, butter, garlic , bacon and the white part of the scallion (if you use regular bacon, you don’t need so much butter and oil)
2. sauteed until aromatic and the bacon is fairly crisp
3. put in the corn and brussel sprouts and sauteed for about 15min. I like to leave mine a bit longer until the corn start browning a bit. Make sure you season with salt and pepper to taste
4. When done, put in dish and garnish with the green scallions and fried scallions