Weekly Wanderings {week 18}

When you have a case of the Mondays… a fun breakfast helps. 😀

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Met some friends at Manpuku for Japanese BBQ.

… or Korean BBQ? I’m still not entirely sure.

Either way, it was seriously delicious.

And soooo much food. It wasn’t super pricey, but we still all left very satisfied.

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Took Son’s dad to Little Saigon for Father’s Day.

They have about a bazillion little food-to-go places, where you can buy tons of different Vietnamese foods to take home and eat later.

We somehow ended up stopping by seven of them. o_0

(I may or may not have snuck a piece of this bò lá lốt while Son and his dad were in another shop.)

Then, for dinner, we ended up at a snail place (which happened to also be the seventh food-to-go shop).

Yes, snails. In the egg rolls. It was actually pretty tasty!

Super spicy fermented pork belly (I didn’t try this one)

Pandan waffle (I *definitely* tried this one… quite a bit. 😀 )

Balogna-type meat, with snails. The fried ones were really tasty.

Banh beo – one of my favorite Vietnamese foods.

Banh canh… kind of reminds me of Japanese udon.

Banh bot loc la. The food just kept coming… and unfortunately by this time I could only have a bite of it, but it was tasty! We got some to go. 😀

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And, on Father’s Day, a repeat of the hot milk cake I made for his birthday this year. Good stuff. ^_^

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Currently reading:

I finished Perfect State, by Brandon Sanderson, in about a day. An interesting short story worth reading, especially if you’re a fan of his Reckoners series.

Currently re-reading Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan. I discovered his writing sometime last year, and instantly read everything I could find that he had published. Although he’s a new author, I would put him on the same level as Robert Jordan or Brandon Sanderson (who, I believe, is Brian McClellan’s mentor). The third book in the trilogy, The Autumn Republic, came out earlier this year, and I put off reading it because I didn’t want the series to end (please tell me I’m not the only one who does that?), so I’m now re-reading the first two books (and all his Powder Mage short stories and novellas) before getting into The Autumn Republic.

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Links I’ve loved lately:

What is the greatest good? How do you make sure your money makes the most impact when donating to charities?

If you’re a nerd like me, then you’ll probably find this article about Obama and his geeks very interesting.

GOATS. IN. PAJAMAS. The best thing I’ve watched all year. 😀

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