Hello Kitty Exhibit at the Seattle EMP

 

 

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I Was On Japanese TV!

Me on God Of Patena!

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My Awesome 38th Birthday

Approaching the Canadian border!

A weirdly shaped building; probably full of video cameras pointed at people crossing the border.

A raindy day.

Getting closer!

So they asked us a few questions – who are you, what are you doing, where are you going, for how long etc etc. Then they let us loose in Canada!

I really like tunnels – this one was especially cool as the center lane has little lights.

My sister Sue has come up to Canada before and gotten me noodles in the past. She told me about this place in Richmond… First stop: Price Smart Foods!

This place was amazing – so many varieties I’ve not seen in the USA before – really awesome!

Five – count ’em FIVE bags full of instant noodles! Wow!!!

Then we drove through Richmond to Yaohan Centre – a big Asian shopping mall.

This place looks rad!

So I was planning on going to a couple more stores: T&T and Osaka. Well, They’re one and the same so that was easy enough. They have a huge cooked food section in Osaka Supermarket – check out all the kinds of dim sum! I like the Shepherd’s Purse bun ingredients  (click image to enlarge).

We both agreed that these actually smelled quite good.

Wow! Frozen turtle!

After all the noodle shopping, we decided to check out the food court. There were a few places – a curry place which smelled awesome, lots of Chinese and then there was Seoul Express. Sweet!

My cute wife Kitten made it such an awesome day!

She got a BBQ beef combo.

I decided to get…

Bibimbap!!! Been wanting to try this for so long and it’s so good. Comes in a stoneware crucible of fire! The food was sizzling for literally five minutes after it was at the table!

French language on everything – proof of being in Canada!

Okay, I’ve discovered something amazing here. The rice at the bottom of the bibimbap is stuck to the bottom. I found that with the spoon from my miso, you could pry it off in nice little pieces. This is like the bacon of the rice world – this is great! Kit told me that her grandmother would cook rice and do the same thing.

With pugs at home demanding attention (they’re telepathic), back to the USA we went.

I ended up with 55 new packs of instant noodles to review – in addition to the 26 that were already in the hamper, that’s 81! Pretty sure I’ll be good on noodles for a while!

Brand	Variety	Style	Country
Chencun	Rice Noodle Beef With Brown Sauce	Cup	China
Chencun	Rice Noodle Fragrant Peppery Beef	Cup	China
Chencun	Rice Noodle Spicy Beef	Cup	China
Chencun	Rice Noodle Red Roast Spareribs	Cup	China
Chencun	Rice Noodle Braised Ribs	Cup	China
Chewy	Satay Chicken	Pack	Hong Kong
Chewy	Spicy Beef With Chili Flavor	Pack	Hong Kong
Chewy	Taiwan Roast Pork Flavour	Pack	Hong Kong
Chewy	Scallop With XO Sauce	Pack	Hong Kong
Four Seas	Hot & Spicy Mushroom & Beef	Bowl	Hong Kong
Four Seas	Chicken	Bowl	Hong Kong
Four Seas	Japanese Style Pork	Bowl	Hong Kong
Four Seas	Sesame Oil Chicken	Bowl	Hong Kong
Golden Wheat	Shrimp	Bowl	China
Golden Wheat	Spicy Beef	Bowl	China
Golden Wheat	Mushroom Chicken	Bowl	China
Golden Wheat	Stew Beef	Bowl	China
Golden Wheat	Stew Pork	Bowl	China
Golden Wheat	Stew Pork	Pack	China
Golden Wheat	Shrimp	Pack	China
Golden Wheat	Stew Beef	Pack	China
Golden Wheat	Spicy Beef	Pack	China
Golden Wheat	Mushroom chicken	Pack	China
Hao Hao	Mi Goreng Shrimp & Onion	Pack	Vietnam
Itomen	Cinstant Ramen Crab	Pack	Japan
Knorr	Quick Serve Macaroni Wonton	Pack	Hong Kong
Knorr	Quick Serve Macaroni Shrimp	Pack	Hong Kong
Knorr	Quick Serve Macaroni Japanese Pork Bone Broth	Pack	Hong Kong
Knorr	Quick Serve Macaroni Abalone & Chicken	Pack	Hong Kong
Mamee	Oriental Noodles Curry	Pack	Malaysia
Mr. Noodles	Bowl Beef	Bowl	Canada
Mr. Noodles	Bowl Spicy Chicken	Bowl	Canada
Mr. Noodles	Bowl Noodles Kimchi	Bowl	Canada
Mr. Noodles	Spicy Chicken	Cup	Canada
Mr. Noodles	Chicken	Cup	Canada
Mr. Noodles	Beef	Cup	Canada
Mr. Noodles	Bowl Noodles Chicken Kimchi	Bowl	Canada
Mr. Noodles	Bowl Chicken	Bowl	Canada
New Touch	Yakisoba Noodles	Tray	Japan
Nissin	Demae Ramen Kimchi Flavor	Bowl	Hong Kong
Nissin	Demae Ramen Sesame Oil	Bowl	Hong Kong
Nissin	Demae Ramen XO Sauce Seafood	Bowl	Hong Kong
Nissin	Demae Ramen Artificial Chicken	Bowl	Hong Kong
Nissin	Demae Rice Vermicelli Chicken	Pack	Hong Kong
Nongshim	Oolongmen Kimchi	Cup	Korea
Nongshim	Potato Pork Ramyun	Pack	China
Nongshim	Shin Ramyun	Bowl	China
Sau Tao	QQ Scallop Seafood	Bowl	China
Vina Acecook	Oh! Ricey Spareribs	Pack	Vietnam
Wei Lih	Steam Noodle Spicy Sichuan	Bowl	Taiwan
Western Family	Instant Noodles In A Cup Chicken	Cup	Canada
Western Family	Instant Noodles In A Cup Spicy Chicken	Cup	Canada
Western Family	Instant Noodles In A Cup Oriental	Cup	Canada
Western Family	Instant Noodles Vegetable	Pack	Canada
Western Family	Instant Noodles Chicken	Pack	Canada

Only one duplicate that I’ve reviewed before!

This was such an awesome birthday – I have the most awesome wife in the universe! I love you Kit!

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Otis The Pug And His Television Watching Antics

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Introducing My Son To Gaming Of Yesteryear: Telnet BBS Games

When I was a kid, we didn’t have all these games like Call Of Duty or Halo. We didn’t even have the Internet as we do today; everything was dial-up, and you had scant choices of who to dial-up. There was Prodigy, Compuserve, America Online and a couple other big ones, but many hobbyists would connect to BBSes (bulletin board systems), which had messageboards that people could use for local discussion, files that they could download and online games. These were commonly referred to as ‘doors.’ I ran a BBS while in middle and high school. Where I lived, to call the next city over was long distance. A few people in the area started BBSes of their own and hosted games and discussions. The games were very basic as far as graphics go; in this video, you can see that everything is made up of text. Since everything was dial-up, this made things faster. Also, dial-up pre-Internet boom was usually 14,400bps or lower. I remember when I bought a 14,400bps modem at Software Etc. in the early 90’s for $200 – people said ‘why would you need something that fast? nobody will ever support it.’ Nowadays, it’s probably being hosted in a landfill, along with other ancient tech items. I still enjkoy BBS games and you can too – go look on Google for a program called SyncTerm – then use it to check out a Telnet BBS! One thing though – when you’re using it, hit Alt-Enter – it will make it fullscreen and very much like the experience we had back in the day.

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When Pugs Attack

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Lime Lime Lime Lime Juice

Here’s the first lime juice Citrojugo sent. Contains sultites, so didn’t affect us happily. Potent stuff!

Here’s the one that came today – crazy! I better review some lime juice!

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Thunderstorms

Here’s a video of our drive to Anacortes along with a lot of thunder and lightning.

Weird how it did that – it was almost pitch black too – this was at 10:10pm!

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The Ramen Rater Media Day

So two big things today – first, I was on TV…

I was also in the JoongAng Ilbo, Korea’s largest newspaper…

http://joongang.joinsmsn.com/article/aid/2012/06/05/8003175.html?cloc=olink|article|default

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Andy’s Homework – Symmetry

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