Mi Amigo’s Mexican Grill, Phoenix, AZ

Here are some pictures from dinner at Mi Amigo’s Mexican Grill. This restaurant is located at 455 N 3rd St. Phoenix, AZ 85004, in the retail area of the Arizona Center. It’s an open air complex with a variety of restaurants, specialty retail stores and tourist souvenir shops. The layout is pretty neat, looks like [...]

Baoguette Cafe, New York, NY

There is this rising trend of sandwich shops all over the city. Here’s a post about a previous visit to the Baoguette Cafe and their gourmet banh mi sandwiches. Baoguette have multiple locations in Manhattan. I’ve only been to the East Village one (at 37 Saint Marks Place near 2nd Ave) and the West Village [...]

Breakfast Couscous

Usually I eat a bowl of hot oatmeal for breakfast. I would cook the plain oats and then sprinkle some cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg, and drizzle honey on top. Occasionally, I would stir in some raisins or currants, berries or slices of mandarin orange. I decided to try something new and make some breakfast couscous. [...]

Dinner at home

Here are a few pictures from dinner at my mom’s place the other week: Chicken and vegetablesDelicious marinated chicken wings and legs with a pile of vegetables cooked with garlic. Mushrooms and bamboo shootsA combination of mushrooms, bamboo shoots and white shirataki noodles. The shirataki noodles are flavorless but has a nice tender texture. It [...]