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from BoingBoing: Peanuts banana-milk popcorn in Tokyo:
Today in my ongoing series of photos from my travels: Snoopy and Lucy Banana Milk-flavored popcorn, for sale at the giant Peanuts store across the street from the Harajuku train station in Tokyo.
On the advice of Eb’s brother Reza, we had dinner after the show at Sushi Seki, 1143 1st Ave. We started with the Crunch Shrimp and Asparagus appetizer, which as excellent: shrimp and asparagus coated in little fried balls of ginger-flavored coating the size of sesame seeds. We then had a spicy tuna roll and a seared tuna roll (good, but not great), some yellowtail sushi, and some toro (fatty tuna) sushi, which neither of us had tried before, but will definitely have again (though, at the price, not often, unfortunately): the texture was so light, it seemed to melt on the tongue.
Even though we got there at 11:30, it was packed (luckily, I had called the day before to make sue we could get in). They kept turning people away the whole time we were there, and they still had folks streaming in when we left. Understandable.
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Best New Restaurants – Catalan Food & Wine, Houston – Esquire
Catalan is very special for us. Chris kind of ‘adopted’ my parents when he was the sous chef and later “wine guy” at Brennan’s. His food was always exquisite, and he’d always make sure my mom got her favorite cheese grits. When he teamed up to start Catalan, we were very excited at the prospect, and were not disappointed. Two weeks afer they opened, it is where we celebrated my parents’ 43rd anniversary…and where I proposed to Anne. We have been back numerous times, and have always had a wonderful dining experience.
So glad to see them getting this national recognition!
PS y’all need to fix your homepage!