When I got back here, my *boss* showed me photo’s, apparently taken by a U-2 from Beale AFB. They were amazingly good! You could even see some structural details. 😉 That was just before I bid ‘fare thee well’ to the DIO and the company I worked for that they basically controlled, and went back to a ‘legitimate’ job in Engineering. 🙂
Sushi is great… so long as you can trust the people preparing it!! (Otherwise, the Japanese would have ceased to exist long ago!) 😉 I’ll never eat it here again however. I’m not known for taking *stupid* risks. 😉
]]>I do visit Santa Cruz from time to time. It’s a cool funky town. I like walking along the waterfront and people-watching, humans do the strangest things ;). They’ve renovated downtown a bit since you came through, assuming you came through before the Loma Prieta quake… the quake shook down several buildings downtown, so they went through and did seismic fixes on everything, and renovated the streets and sidewalks too. It’s gone a bit upscale compared to what it was, but still plenty funky and cool.
And of course San Francisco remains San Francisco. I do visit there from time to time but mostly for things like festivals and bands that never make it down here because well, sleepy suburban towns aren’t much for nightlife. I certainly don’t go there for food, we have plenty down here in the South Bay.
Regarding sushi: I will only eat raw fish that I caught and killed myself ;). But really, if the Great Penguin had intended mankind to eat raw fish, then He would have never created fire. Just sayin’ :).
]]>srsly, though, it does sound interesting. i’m a fan of anything even remotely mediterranean.
]]>I figured you’d know that market. 🙂 I thought I’d post it for others if they were interested. Looked very impressive! If the quality is as good as it’s size… Wow! It might almost be worth me even moving there… 😆 I didn’t get to see Santa Clara, but as I said, I did really like Santa Cruz. If they are at all similar, I’d like it (even though Cruz is mainly a University town, unlike many others, it’s not that noticeable. 🙂
All the Sushi places here are being put on notice or closing! They found up to 80% of them has serious health issues! Including
Microbiologist Glen Pinna tested 60 sushi rolls purchased from shopping centres, restaurants and takeaways in suburban and city outlets.
“The type of sushi rolls we got positive was a broad range terriyaki chicken, straight chicken, beef – even a Peking duck,” Glen said.
In Sydney, four out of five shops failed tests – most were already on the name and shame list.
A beef sushi roll tested positive to the potentially deadly staphylococcus bacteria, 26 times above the limit.
Four sushi rolls had had hidden bacillus cereus, a food poisoning bug found in rice.
It should be at levels less than 100 – one chicken roll had a count of 600.
In Brisbane, almost half of the sushi outlets failed.
A chicken terriyaki roll tested posted to staphylococcus at levels 29 times higher than what is acceptable.
The sample also tested positive to bacillus cereus.
The most worrying sample was purchased at an outlet on Brisbane’s southside with a sushi roll testing positive to listeria.
“Listeria can cause still birth in pregnant women and serious infections that can lead to death,” Glen said.
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I’ll never eat Sushi here again! I actually did get severe food poisoning about 10 years ago after having Sushi for lunch in Sydney! I spent over 21 hours in emergency! I was on a morphene IV injector that gave me a shot every half-hour. I LOVE morphene! 😀
Ya know… Hospital staff are REALLY not very bright! I’d just had food poisoning, had my stomach pumped, and been pumped full of morphene for over 20 hours… and they insisted I had to have breakfast before I left!! It came up faster than it went down… and I told them it would! Idiots.
Next time I want Sushi & Sushimi etc… I’ll go to Japan! 😉
]]>Regarding the Corner Restaurant, disaster overtook them. I went by there a few months back to get some bibimbap and there was a notice in the window, “Closed By Order Of The Health Department”. Siiiigh! I hate when that happens! However, that’s okay, I went to the Korean tofu place next door and got some soondubu (spicy tofu soup) instead ;). Sadly, that was the end of that restaurant, the sign is gone and now there’s just a ‘For Lease’ sign in the window, but hey, there’s 76 other Korean restaurants to try in Santa Clara so I’m not exactly distraught :).
]]>The Korean Secret Garden in Santa Clara – Bi Won Restaurant
I came across this comment on a SF cuisine board…
It’s hard to make a bad BiBimBop, but one of the better ones I’ve had is at the “Corner” Restaurant in Santa Clara. It’s a small neighrbood type of place but the food is very good. The Dol Sot BBB is not overly oily as some of the other places. Some of the other places I’ve tried uses too much oil to grease the stone pot.
The generous amount of real pieces of Bulgoki meat tastes better than the others who use bits and pieces of leftover meat.
It’s located next to Sushi-O-Sushi on El Camino Real.
I had a wonderful time sampling food in SF and Santa Cruz! I didn’t want to leave… I have to say, they were my fave places in the USA. 🙂
Speaking of Yelp, I found this:
“Hands down, the best Korean Grocery store in Northern Cali.”
Hope that helps. 🙂
And… Speaking of backpacks and heavy gear (and yeah, boots were a pain! Especially as ours were Kevlar reinforced.) Near the end of my tour, my team volunteered to field test a new backpack. Was exceptionally good! Had much better compartment layout, was tougher and lighter, and had an inbuilt insulated water bladder that could take several liters of water, and it was cooler than ambient. 🙂
On several missions, we had to also lug my Steyr AMR in two man-portable field packs. The weapon alone was 18kg (about 40 lbs) plus the heavy secure portable field packs, sighting gear (daylight, low-light and IR scopes) and ammo (which was heavy given it was 15.2mm caliber ultra-high velocity APFSDS projectile. Had a muzzle velocity of approx 1.55 km/s or mach 4.5 & point blank was 1.5km). We also had to carry a gillies suit and other special equipment. Though generally on those missions, we were dropped off by chopper when possible, or some other means of transport, and gear was distributed among the 6 man team, except for the fwd scout. 🙂
]]>Just call me…
– Badtux the Soon-to-be-waddling Penguin
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Recipezaar – 303 Korean recipes
It’s a good one to keep as a reference. 🙂
]]>More here (the site also has dishes from many other cultures also):
SBS – Korean recipes and Korean cuisine