I’m so glad I didn’t weigh myself before pizza week started, now I’ll never know how much weight I’ve gained.
So far this week we’ve reviewed: Sauce, Z Pizza, Ray’s and Patsy Grimaldi’s over at the Pizza Locust.
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Foo(d) Bar Blog => Din Tai Fung
There’s a funny thing about doing food and restaurant reviews. Even though I know fully well that each person has their own taste and that you can’t hope to agree with anyone except perhaps yourself, there’s a certain weird self-affirmation when you run across someone who records a similar impression of a restaurant – particularly one you consider exceptional.
In this case I came across this new review over at the Foo(d) Bar Blog, which I believe is also based in the Phoenix area, but in this case is reviewing Din Tai Fung, a restaurant in my wife’s old neighborhood: Taipei, Taiwan. (What are the odds?)
Referring to their world-famous xiao long bao:
What makes Xiaolongbao different from other types of steamed buns and dumplings is the filling. In addition to meat, the dumplings are also stuffed with gelatenous stock before being steamed. Once steamed, the gelatin melts and becomes the soup inside the bun. When you eat a xiaolongbao, you get a nice combination of meat, soup, and wrapper. The soup buns at Din Tai Fung were awesome. The soup was very hot, and it was easy to scald yourself if you didn’t let them cool just a bit before eating. Wait too long, though, and the soup wasn’t quite as good. What also makes the xiaolongbao unique at Din Tai Fung is the number of pleats in each dumpling. Apparently, the buns at Din Tai Fung have more pleats than most other places, which is a result of years of experimentation by the owner.
Read the rest of his review via this link.
If you’re ever in Taipei, you can hardly go wrong at Din Tai Fung. (They also have branches in Japan, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Korea, Indonesia and here in the States in the Los Angeles area.)
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Spaunsglo at FLICKR posted this disturbing photo.
This is literally a nightmare I’ve had come true.
Time to move the pens back up higher on the shelves. James has already crayoned the tables, chairs, desks and beds. So far, my Macbook is safe, but now I’m worried. It’s so pretty and white, like a piece of newborn paper.
The Independent => Fossils: myths, mystery and magic
Fresh on the heels of Primeval we have this interesting article concerning some of the misconceptions and folklore that sprung up about fossils before we lived in this enlightened age of reason. For example:
The fossil Protoceratops, which means “first horned faceâ€, was a sheep-sized herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous period (about 100 million years ago), that lived in what is now Mongolia. Protoceratops had a large neck-frill but, unlike later ceratopsians, lacked well-developed horns.
The folklore Fossilised skulls of this dinosaur with a bird-like beak have been unearthed in the Gobi desert, which is where the myth of the gold-guarding griffin originates – a ferocious beast with the body of a lion, the head and wings of an eagle and talons as big as bull-horns.
The griffin myth probably originated from the tales of Scythian gold miners who may have come across Protoceratops skulls on the edge of the Altai mountains, in what is now Siberia. The uncanny resemblance between these two creatures suggests that the fossilised skull and bones of the real dinosaur may have been the inspiration for the vivid descriptions of the mythological beast.
Nowadays, of course, we know better. It’s been decisively proven that fossils are just the remains of animals that God made too big to fit through the door of Noah’s Ark. Silly god, he never could measure to save his life.
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Primeval, a new series from ITV offers dinosaurs in modern day England. Who could ask for more?
Eatnineghost.com => So cute can die
I always though of a “doggy backpack†as a way to get more work out of my lazy dog, not as a way for the dog to get more work out of me.
Personally, you couldn’t pay me to watch the Super Bowl, so I can’t confirm or deny that this Garmin commercial is from there, but, it’s obviously Ultraman inspired, so, it’s worth a chuckle.
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They must of been having a big laugh in the product development room when they came up with the idea of a “Pooh†training toilet.
Must have worked, though. We bought one for James. Yep, that’s right, it’s time for Potty Boot Camp, second edition!
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Well, I can’t deny that the Light rail construction is a pain in butt, especially since the line not only borders the square mile I live in, but also runs up the main road we use for most of our shopping and taking Michelle to school.
However, Spectrum Mall (once Christown Mall) which has been languishing for years is in the middle of a bit of re-birth. There’s still nothing in it, but somebody’s gambling a lot of money on the fact it’s right at the terminus of the line. Half the mall was torn down and, slowly, they’ve begun building a new infrastructure. The Harkins theatre that’s been there forever is moving to the other end and making a larger, newer theatre.
I can hardly wait to see if any decent pizza restaurants or shops open up there.
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