Here’s a Yum Cha Rap in Chinese. Good to learn what the names of the dishes are!
Rappin’ about yum cha! Wish MY yum cha house looked kinda like this…
Out here in these parts, we have a free bulletin board called craigslist. You can buy and sell things as well as hook up. Because it’s a free service, the flake factor is very high. But it’s free to list so lots of people use it. This also applies to the personals. Check this out and tell me if this is the kick-ass response to the original poster….!
The Sounds and Sights of Freedom!
They’rrrrre Baaaaaack!
Twas Fleet Week here in SF and the Blue Angels are paying their annual visit! YEAH!
Football Season!
Blast from the Past
I went to a seminar tonight about digital photography.
GOING DIGITAL: THE ABCS OF DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
MARK RICHARDS, Photographer
SCOTT BUDMAN, NBC 11 Technology/Business Reporter; Host, TechNow!
STEWART BUTTERFIELD, General Manager and Co-founder, Flickr
LARRY MAGID, Syndicated Technology Columnist – Moderator
More than 3 million U.S. consumers will buy digital cameras this year. Whether you are an absolute beginner, a photography enthusiast or a professional photographer, join us as our panel of experts leads us through the latest trends, techniques and innovations in this digital field.
Sounds interesting, right? Wrong. The event’s description sounded a lot more interesting than the actual event which had the co-founder of Flickr, a broadcast “journalist” and a baby boomer photographer whining about the injustice of how people without computer skills will lose out on sharing photos that are on computers, yadda yadda. About a third of the audience walked out after the first 20 minutes (the under 40 crowd). What was left was the over-40 crowd. Fun! *rolls eyes*
The event was held at the Computer History Museum that had a lot of (guess!) old computers inside. Very retro!
The computer that started an empire, the US$666.66 (in 1974 US$) Apple 1!
I think this is a very old ATC system…
Here’s an almost as old IBM mainframe (ask your grandparents what this is)
This is a Cray-1 Supercomputer, circa 1976. I think it’s a neat piece of furniture!
Modern day high end PC processors, like the ones in your lappy or desktop are 100 times faster than the Cray-1. Amazing lah.
Here’s some other “amazing” stuff. Although it’s more of the “wah lau” kind of amazing. While eating dinner, I saw people in polo shirts with their collars turned up. A lot. Is it the 80s’ again?? When I was in the PRC, I saw a lot of this. Maybe the techies that go there to manufacture computers goods brought back this style??
Geez…
Poetry at Rest
…and she’s mine. MINE! WAHAHAHAHAH
Still alive!
It’s Art, I tell ya! Art art art!
Of cors it’s always “art” at 0300!
Not Enough Coffee
Personally, I think, “not enough coffee”!
I mean, this is how I am after I take a shower!!
New mall ramen…
This is always a welcome sight in my ramen-scarce area. This is Majikku Ramen in Daly City. It’s in that mall on Skyline where Ranch 99 and the KFC is. If you’re Asian and you live in San Francisco, chances are you know where this is and can get here blindfolded.
New Ramen shop! Sorta of in my area…
The sign above usually means, “come in and eat”. So I went this evening.
It was pretty busy because it was dinner time
The place had chill out lounge music which would be great for the kind of bars I like to frequent, but even though it’s not really ramen shop music, it worked with the decor which is very modern-y and new. That’s fine since this place has been open for only a few months.
Many things can make or break a ramen shop besides the actual food. The ramen is of course, the reason you go to a ramen shop but the service, the variety of food (or lack thereof) and the atmosphere can also make a place worthwhile.
Or it can break a place.
First the good stuff. Decent tonkotsu broth. Good flavor without the MSG hangover.
Here’s another added (and rare) feature here. Cha siu slices that are rich, flavourful and hella tender! The noodles were decently springy. I think I was here on a good night.
Makes your mouth water, dun it?
Before the ramen showed up, ordered some chicken yakatori and wasabi chicken from the Robata-Yaki menu. Both very good and worthy of piss alley in Shinjuku.
Great with beer!
Now the not so great. The miso ramen was extremely oversalted to the point of causing a salt/msg headache. Canned bamboo shoots in both bowls were rubbery and limp. But at least the noodles and cha siu kept their ramen-y goodness. Both bowls also came out not as hot as I’d like. My miso ramen friend didn’t have problems with the warmth of the bowl so that may be a matter of personal preference.
The bowl looks good…and the cha siu still rox!
Now so far, we have good appetizers and passable ramen. Before I continue, I should mention that they have lots of free parking. Here’s where the place falls flat on its face. The service is bad. It’s the kind of service that you’d expect in a typical Chinese restaurant here. No, I’ll go further than that. It genuinely seemed like they were very disinterested in doing their jobs. There was no greeting from the waitstaff when we signed in and waited for our wall-facing counter seat. Service was incredibly slow despite the fact it was the dinner hour.
Come here if you’ve got the craving for ramen/izakaya food. Just don’t expect the experience and treatment that you’d usually get from one of these places. Order simply, eat and leave. Also interesting…there were no Japanese diners or staff inside…
Majikku Ramen
240 Skyline Plaza
Daly City CA 94015
650-756-2988
Think I’ll let him pass…
Hmmm. If I see this bike on the road, best to let it pass…
Still life from Bed Supperclub
From my last night in BKK…twas Model’s Night!!
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