friday food finds

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decided to go to jewel bako friday night (way too hot outside for ramen at ippudo). decor at jewel bako was fairly nice. we had:

trio of tartares blue fin tuna, salmon and yellowtail, served with lotus root chips. ex-cellent.
unagi with shrimp, golden tobiko, avocado and kaiware. really good.
scallops with yuzu zest, avocado, scallions and chive oil. meh.
salmon with shiso furikake, bonito flakes and white miso. only good.

i would go back just for the trio of tartares...it was that de-licious.

since we were in the east village anyway, we walked to butter lane for dessert. we tried:

vanilla cupcake with caramel frosting. too good.
chocolate cupcake with raspberry frosting. only good.

after, we checked out the japanese grocery store (conveniently on the way to the subway) that my cousin showed me the other night. i bought the usual things that i like, but also got some green tea tapioca balls and black tea mix to make bubble tea. the store also had my favourite aloe vera drinks (or at least a different brand of the aloe vera drinks i like).

original flavour.

and peach flavour.

i'm hoping they're good.

waiting for weekend

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with no days of pre-call or post-call, it is a full work week. meh.

last night i went out for pommes frites and dollar-sushi. (yes, you read that right. dollar-sushi). first stop, pommes frites. i may have to eat fries every week until i have tried all the dipping sauces. last night, we had the cheese sauce, sundried tomato mayo, & parmesan peppercorn mayo. the next ones i want to try are mango chutney mayo and grilled eggplant mayo. (as per recommendations). second stop, dollar-sushi. it may sound totally sketchy, but it was surprisely o-k. the place was packed, which is generally a good sign. after, i was too lazy to walk to butter lane to get "the better cupcake." (next time...)

tonight, i was contemplating checking out barney's warehouse sale which started today. after reading some stories online of the queue to get in this morning and the lack of any worthy sales, i passed and decided to check out the saja sample sale in the lower east side. i'm glad i did. although the sample sale was a disaster with absolutely no rhyme or reason to the way merch was put on the racks...there were a lot of great deals. trying to look thru the racks was deadly. i don't know why, but there were a lot of tiny asian girls there. and asian girls can get mean when they are shopping for deals, peoples. i snagged this small sized dress (which were few, most of the merch was size 6), as angry little asian girls watched with envy.

saja cowl neck dress in moss print. (retail $470! who would pay this, really?!!) sample sale $70

finally friday tomorrow! want to try one of ippudo or jewel bako .

this weekend: visitors! saturday night booked at bouley. the tasting menu. all i can say is, it better be good, peoples. it better be really good.