Good Food Day

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In contrast to yesterday, today’s highlight was all the good food I ate. For lunch, Suzette and I went back to Ayala mall where I wanted to eat at a Vietnamese/Thai restaurant I saw the day before. The restaurant is called Lemon Grass and is a clean, stylish place with fresh looking food and ingredients. It looked like a typical quality oriented restaurant from hippest parts of Los Angeles.

Chicken wrapped in leaves were delicious and well presented.

Vietnamese spring rolls were good and plentiful.

My Vietnamese pho was good with lots of fresh ingredients.

I was excited to order the Vietnamese spring rolls, a Thai iced tea, and Pho bo. The last time I ate Vietnamese food was when I was living in Los Angeles 6 months ago so it was exciting to try it again. Suzette ordered some chicken that was wrapped in some kind of leaves. The food was better than I thought it would be. It was actually better than the usual Vietnamese restaurant I normally ate at in Los Angeles. Food presentation was great and everything was tasty. Overall, the prices weren’t too expensive—sure, it was more than eating at a little family owned eatery, but it was equivalent to eating at a place along Alona and much cheaper than Wineshop.

Work.

The Lapu Lapu at KK's Restaurant was some of the best fish I've had in a while.

For dinner, Reggie took Mike, Suzette, and I to Walter’s Malaysian restaurant—KK’s Restaurant—at the IT Park area. IT Park is a clean, perfectly groomed but sterile area that reminded me of the city of Irvine in Orange County, California. The food we ate at Walter’s place was awesome. The best dish we ate was the steamed Lapu Lapu fish. It was fresh, moist, and tasty. It actually reminded me of steamed Chinese catfish. It was so good, Reggie and I persuaded Suzette to eat a piece of fish. It was only her second time eating fish and she said she liked it.



- jason