The first two pictures are from yesterday's food -- the curry chicken pho, and the gai choi (芥菜, Chinese mustard greens) soup.
A pretty good curry chicken pho from the 7 Mission restaurant (7th and Mission) for lunch. I'm happy I discovered this place, even though it's a little far from work, because the only other good pho place in the area I know of is closed (along with the rest of the International Food Court.) Mustard green soup at home for dinner. A heck of a lot of it.
Mediocre fish paste dumplings for lunch. I don't know what I was thinking. I thought when I was a kid, we'd make won ton with fish paste from the chinese market and I liked it fine. Maybe the fish paste isn't as good as it used to be. Or maybe my taste changed. Or my memory is playing tricks on me. Either way it's an experiment that I won't repeat again any time soon.
Average pho for lunch. The last of the leftover dumplings for dinner. At the end, I started to pinch the dumplings in a different way. Instead of a usual crescent (usual for my family, I guess), I pinched it going up on one side and down on the other, so it made a 'S'-shape. Midnight ribs for the second course (midnight because I didn't get home until well after nine and they take about two-and-a-half hours in the oven.) But this time I used a decanter to separate the braising liquid from the fat and was able to make a nice little reduction from it. I also just turned up the gas and blasted the heck out of it, so maybe that was the difference.
Beef curry ramen (hot) from Muracci's. It's still good, but they're still slow. Pizza for dinner at Stephanie and Joe's. I brought the dough and Chiara helped spin it out and put on the toppings. The first one kind of stuck to the peel, but the second came out much better. Rounder, at least.
Oh, I also ate a little piece of chocolate when I got home.
