The Cheesecake Factory

The Cheesecake Factory

Last Sunday, I went to the Cheesecake Factory with my friends. That was my first time to go there and have dinner in this restaurant. It’s on the roof of the Macy’s mall in downtown of San Francisco. Since my friend, Sandy should buy a pretty dress for her senior prom in her high school; we have gone to the restaurant after that. And we ate dinner at night; maybe there have many people so we waited a long time for the dinner. If you guys want to go eat dinner there, I think you should know you will wait a half hour or one hour.There has many people sat on the outside or stand on the outside. Actually, I don’t like to wait in the long time for to have a dinner, so I walked to out of the restaurant and wait for my friend to call me when they got it.

The first picture is my dinner, Tai chicken pasta. I don’t know how to explain it because I can’t say it is very good for me. In the fact, it is a nice meal in this restaurant. I felt it had a lot of condiments in the pasta order; maybe it’s the Tai food style so it is not really nice for me. I like to eat Tai food since they always have the spicy foods. In the beginning, I think the Tai chicken pasta has curry or some condiments can make the pasta be spicier, but it is not true. Anyway, I still enjoy it because it made me have different style to try Tai food.

The second picture is when people waiting the meal coming, we can eat some bread first. I love the black one since it’s better than the white one. The black one has a few nuts on the top, and it was made me interesting to eat. And another problem is the water is free to drink. It makes feel good, because I don’t extra money to buy another drink for my dinner. I can have a more healthy meal in my dinner time.   

The third picture is Sandy order. I forgot the name already, and I just know it has delicious steak and some smashed potatoes. I like having some wasabi in the potatoes. It was made so surprise! And the last one picture is my favorite food, cheesecake. I always want to eat the cake every day, but it made me very unhealthy. So I just eat some in each month. I think this cheesecake not really sweet for me, and you can eat the cake with a few creams. It’s perfect to finish my dinner time!

During the meal, I think me over my health calories’ plan. However, I just have one time to do it during this month. So, it doesn’t matter for this time. But I always eat low calorie food for my lunch and dinner. Also, I have P.E. class now, and I can do more exercise to make me be the healthy one.

My favorite food ever!!!!

Ka-Prow-Moo-Krob with rice

Papaya Salad

             The two pictures above are my favorite Thai food that is called Ka-Prow-Moo-Krob and Papaya salad, which I often have in my meal, even though I am in Thailand or other countries.  I took pictures of these dishes a week ago while I was eating my late lunch at Lers Ros Thai restaurant in tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco.  The first time I ate these dishes here, I felt that I was in Thailand because  the taste of these dishes were the real Thai food as same as the taste in Thailand.  The two dishes  were very tasty and appropriate of amount spicy taste, especially Papaya salad's taste was full taste of sour, sweet, salty, and spicy flavor that the chef cook it very delicious.  I really enjoyed eating the food here with nice atmosphere, and services.  The waitresses were so nice and pleasure to serve me the meal as well.  However, many Thai restaurants in San Francisco, there are Thai fusion restaurant that they created the taste for American people.  The taste was ok , but actually I did not like it.  

              Additionally, the ingredient of the first dish, Ka-Prow-Moo-Krob are pork belly, Thai basil leaves, bell paper, long green bean, and chili.  The chef cook the dish by stir-fired pork belly with fish sauce, black bean sauce,chili, and garlic.  After cook for a while, then put bell paper, chopped long green bean, and basil leaves in order, and stir them together just for a bit.  Then it is going to be ready to serve with rice as well.  Moreover, the way to cook Papaya salad is to pound garlic, chili, lime juice, and palm sugar in mortar by pestle together, them mix it with chopped papaya for a minute, then put tomatoes, and long green bean, then ready to eat.  I think it is not too hard to cook it at home, and I can enjoy cooking at home, although its taste is not too tasty as well as in the restaurant.     

             As you can see the ingredients and the way to cook these dishes,  I think the two dishes are very healthy because I can obtain full all nutrition of food, such as protein, carbohydrate, and vitamin.  Also Papaya salad is a good dish for me when I am on diet that solve my hunger.   Furthermore, these two dishes became to be my favorite food ever with no doubt.  

           

steakhouse

  In general, chinese mainly feed on rice. In contrast, Americans mainly feed on meat and bread.  I really want to try some real american food since I came to America.  Unbelievably, I reunited with my classmate "JJ" in the elementary school of China. And he invited me to have dinner in outback steakhouse on Friday night this week.
  The outback steakhouse restaurant is famous of steak.  It is in 371 Gellert blvd,Daly City.  We arrived at 7:00 pm. However, we have to wait for 20 min with number slip, because we didn't reserver in advance.  20 min later, we were arrangered to seat near bar area. The main dinning room looked like a little bit dark and it seems more romatic than any other simple restaurant.  What's more, it wasn't very noisy.  The bar area consisted of some parions on bar stools leisurely watching the 3 television hanging from the ceiling. Everything made me feel relax and comfortable.  In addition, the waiter was cordial and attentive. I think that's why their tips are higher than Chinese restaurant.  I ordered Filet steak and JJ ordered prime rib under the waiter's introduction.  Tell the truth, I will never forget the taste of bread. They offer a loaf of brown bread for appetizer. And they put it on a small wooden board. I like bread made of wheet with soft and creamy butter so much. The bread and butter are perfect match.  It is so delicious that I can help asking for one more.
  The first picture I took is my main course Filet steak, it included a piece of Filet steak, a mashed potato, and a plate of eggs and bacon.  The Filet looks like  a little bit charred black and thick.  However, it tastes tender and juicy when I cut a slice to eat.  I am adaptable as long as it is not blood rare.  That's the reason why I require medium steak.  Just look at the second picture I took is JJ's prime rib.  Compared to my black filet, the prime rib is much more red than mine. Maybe the rib is best part of the cow ,  nevertheless,  I am not able to try a red steak, even though it was tasty.  Honestly, it make me feel a little bit disgusted.
   Overall, I think th American food is full of starch and portein. In personal, I am not satisfacted with my thinner shape.  So it contributes ot gain weight. Actually, I modified my eating  habit since I came to America. For example, I ate a lot of meat and drink more milk than before.  In spite of this, we are also supposed to pay attention to well-balance diet. For instance, we could eat meat with all sorts of vegatable or fruits. It is necessary to eliminate so oily food and find your own healthy diet.

Traditional Chinese Food

  Different places have their traditional food. After I came to the US, I missed Chinese traditional food pretty much. China is a huge nation, so different provinces have different eating habits and traditional food. I don't know which food I should choose when Denise asked us to introduce a food on blog because many kinds of food are my favorite. Coincidently, May 5 is a special day in China. It is as the first day of summer in lunar calendar, and we need eat a traditional food for lunch or dinner in that day, so I want to introduce this traditional food of my hometown on the blog. This food is porridge with beans and pea nut. The weather of my hometown is hot in May, and the porridge can contribute to relieve the summer-heat, so we eat it on the first day of summer.

  I am not an expert in cooking, but the recipe of the porridge isn’t very complicate, so I can cook it by myself. The first step is to prepare the materials. We need 1 cup of rice, 1 cup of peanut, 1 cup of red bean, 1 cup of soy bean, 1 cup of mung bean, some pieces of ginger and some kelp. Surely, the beans aren’t stable, and you can modify the kinds of bean. These are enough for 3 people. The second step is to process these materials. We mix the different kinds of bean, and soak them in water for a whole night. The rice and kelp are soaked by water only for 1-2 hours after we wash them. The third step is to boil a pot of water. We should put all of the beans and ginger into the pot when we begin to boil the water. When the water gets boiling, we pour the rice into the pot. When it gets boiling again, we turn the fire to low level. After about 2 hours, we put a half bowl of crystal sugar into the porridge. When the sugar dissolves in the porridge, the delicious porridge is finished. There is a lot of sugar in the porridge, so the taste of the porridge is sweet.

  I made the porridge for the dinner on May, 05. My mother, my Aunt and I enjoyed the traditional food on the first day of summer. It tasted so sweet, and the beans and rice was pretty soft. I think the taste was perfect because the chef of the dinner was me. O(∩_∩)O However, I think the food isn’t really healthy because it contains a lot of sugar. Nevertheless, it is as a traditional food which we eat only one time in one year, so I have kept eating it for many years. Everyone’s hometown has his traditional food. When we are eating the tradition food, we not only can taste the food, but also feel the taste of our hometown. ~~~~(>_<)~~~~

House speical

        This is a signature item in a Chinese restaurant.  This restaurant is called " YANK SING".  This dumpling is called "SHANG HAI DUMPLING', and its name was from a big city , Shang Hai , in China.  It was originally famous from there.  Since so many immigrants moved to the U.S, so they brought Chinese culture here and they tried to make it follow the America culture and make it accept by the local people.

         If you want to try it , you can to S. F  financial distinct,  which is located on 101 Spear St.  It is inside a tall building, " Recon Center".  If you come here for lunch , I recommend this item.  Although I took this picture without a perfect situation, I guarantee it will taste better than it looks.  When you order it, it will automatically come with red vinegar and ginger, and it also serves with soup spoon. You need to be careful when you eat this dumpling,  because it has some soup inside the dumpling,  you  have better to eat it with spoon . If you confuse about how to eat, you tell  the sever that this is your first time, and  the sever will show you how to eat.  Otherwise you can't catch the soup from the dumpling.

          So it is better to eat it step by step. First, use a pair of chopstick to pick it up and put it in a soup spoon, second, put tea spoon of red on the dumpling, and then put a little bit ginger on the top, but remember not to eat the whole one into your mouth, it is very hot in temperature . it will burn your mouth. Since  you follow to eat it step by step, I'm sure you will enjoy it. It is amazing.

               Enjoy the Food
  This photo was taken in Denny’s restaurant which was next to the downtown campus. I went there for lunch with my friends about one month ago. Denny’s restaurant have many branches in different location, I think maybe many of you have been there before.
  There have many fast food restaurants in the US. Denny’s restaurant is the better restaurant I have tried so far. The price of food is not very expensive, and there have different kinds of food for your choice. As you can see, the food in the middle of the picture was Santa Fe Skillet which full of potatoes, sausage,mushrooms and eggs. In upper left corner, was the Bacon Avocado Burrito and the Cheese Fries in the lower left corner. All of it were pretty delicious and did not cost much money. The environment in the restaurant also pretty well, it’s a good place for gathering. On the other hand, although the food tastes good, is not very healthy for our body. Because most of the food is fried, it’s easy to get conjunctivitis and inflammation. We would better not eat too much fast food, or we can cook by ourselves to avoid too much oil.
  As I've mentioned above, I like to eat the fast food because it always suit my appetite. People say that most delicious food is always bad for our health. I think it makes sense; we should eat healthier more often instead of eating too much fast food. The pursuit of taste buds when we eat; we also need to consider the nutrition of food at the same time.
  

Blogger-5 "Borshch"

 Borshch

   

      What a red, deep purple it is! It's a food about that I and my 2 roommates cooked on Monday.  I didn't know that the topic of blogger was about food, if I knew that I could post a better photo :P (random pic) As you seeing, there is a photo of yummy food with some bowl of rice. In our living room, we have no table, that's why we put some paper on the carpet to do not make it messy :D. Okay, Let's talk about what we have eaten. 

          It was on Monday around 5pm, after we finished our school; work.  We decided to cook with 3 of us together.  One of us cleaned the vegetables, after that I chopped them and the third of us made it done.  The ingredients are very simple: Of course it's Russian style "Borshch" soup, it has some beet, cabbage, onion, cauliflower, carrot, and no meet at all!  After we finished the cooking, pour it into the bowls, we put some sour cream on it.  We can't imagine it without sour cream!  Time to eat- Delicious! 

        On the other hand, the reason why I posted about this is how we do this.  We talked about each other, made some jokes around, laughing :) We all know that kind of family conversation affects to our mind and health in a good way.  Also, the one major thing is we get close to each other deeply.  That means we cook once, then we get a lot of benefits of it. 

         Therefore, nothing can be worth of the food that we make at sweet home with our own hands, with our participating, good conversation.  If you eat outside primarily, you can simply modify it by eliminating junk foods instead homemade nutrition.  You will notice that is really helpful to your health and your wallet.  Thus, stay at home, chill around and cook some real food! Wait, don't forget about relaxing, satisfying :) Hope you enjoy it!