If you have visited my blog before, sorry I had gone for so long! I’m back now and hope that I can be more active. I haven’t been cooking much since my vacation in Thailand back in November, 2010. It takes me a good few months to adjust to my new schedule both work and school.
This week I had my first Spring Break in like 5 years, so I was so exciting to have one week of no paper. Love school, I have learned a lot so far, but THANK GOD! I needed this break! So, here I’m sharing with you my breakfast, lunch, and dinner that I had over the weekend just around town.
Breakfast
My first stop was at Broken Yolk Café, a very busy breakfast place in PB. It had a lot of people waiting in line, but the wait was not all that bad. I had been here a few times before and one think I like most about this place is that I know I will always get a fresh orange juice with my breakfast. Orange juice is one thing I rather picky about.
We started our meal with the orange juice (which was great) and a mocha. The mocha was so average. I had it better elsewhere or even Starbucks. Then I ordered (New York) Steak and Eggs with rice and muffin and my husband ordered Eggs Benedict. Mine was good, perfectly cooked both steak and eggs. My husband, on the other hand, got burned hash browns. We were like looking at each other in amused before asked for a new one. Please don’t serve burned hash browns, you're insulting my food!!! Other than that it was fine. The Eggs Benedict was OK (not bad), but we had the better one just a few weeks before at Côté Sud in Hillcrest.
So far, the food has not been a wild factor for this place, but the location and its outdoor seats certainly are. After all, we were still had a very good time!
Broken Yolk Café Pacific Beach
1851 Garnet Ave. Pacific Beach, Ca. 92109
858-270-YOLK (9655)
Lunch
The next day, we decided to sleep in before heading to lunch at Amarin Thai Restaurant in Mira Mesa, San Diego. I think Amarin has at least 2 locations in Hillcrest and Mira Mesa. I come to the Mira Mesa one quite often for my lunch. Usually, the service is very fast and the lunch is consistently good. One bad thing about the Mira Mesa location is that it's very much hole in the wall. So, you won’t get the same service and ambience like the one in Hillcrest which the decoration is much prettier and the service is more professional.
My favorite foods here are spicy fried rice, crispy catfish (which always ran out a.k.a. they don’t want to serve it), and Thai basil dishes. One of its house-specialty called Mambo Mambo Chicken Curry is also very good, but I only had it from the one in Hillcrest. So I'm not sure how it is in the one in Mira Mesa.
This time my husband and I tried Pad Kaprow Seafood (spicy basil seafood) and Spicy Fried Rice with Beef. They both were great and this place never failed you on the spice. I always impressed with the seafood dishes here, very good quality of seafood. Only one disappointment was the beef. It was like a hit or miss. Sometime it didn’t tasted so good, another time it was fine.
Overall, I preferred lunch over dinner. Rather not be in that area for dinner. That would be too boring.
Amarin Thai Restaurant
6755 Mira Mesa Boulevard #109, San Diego, CA 92121-6306
(858) 450-4475
After a walk around the La Jolla Cove in late afternoon, we ended up at Aloha Sushi Lounge on Fay Avenue for early dinner. We started out with the Savory Scallops and it was perfectly cooked. Then we ordered 2 sushi rolls and a box set. Jalapeno roll (on the top left) was a bomb. It was so good with a little kick of spice. I forgot the name of another roll; I think it either Aloha or Volcano roll. I didn’t really care for it. We also had a box set and it was OK. I won’t order it again for that price.
After all I must say that my experience wasn’t bad. The service was great (please remember it was not during a rush hour) and the food was decent. Will I go back there again? It’s a 50/50 since there is nothing special about the place.
The weekend went well. Now, I'm ready to head back to school again!
Dinner
After a walk around the La Jolla Cove in late afternoon, we ended up at Aloha Sushi Lounge on Fay Avenue for early dinner. We started out with the Savory Scallops and it was perfectly cooked. Then we ordered 2 sushi rolls and a box set. Jalapeno roll (on the top left) was a bomb. It was so good with a little kick of spice. I forgot the name of another roll; I think it either Aloha or Volcano roll. I didn’t really care for it. We also had a box set and it was OK. I won’t order it again for that price.
After all I must say that my experience wasn’t bad. The service was great (please remember it was not during a rush hour) and the food was decent. Will I go back there again? It’s a 50/50 since there is nothing special about the place.
The weekend went well. Now, I'm ready to head back to school again!
1 comments:
love the photos saeng. have a great weekend!
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