Weekend eats

Over the weekend, M and I intended on cooking and enjoying our weekend in. Instead, we ended up spending most of the weekend running around. Sunday was a fruitful day of shopping and dining out. We actually wanted to have dinner on Saturday night at Asia Manoa, but when we arrived, although more than half the tables were empty, they were intended for reservations made by others ahead of time. As a result, we went to Boston's Pizza across the street (also delicious!) and made out own reservations at for Asia Manoa on Sunday night (especially since it seems so popular, we had to try it). It was quite good! We ordered the hot&sour soup, crispy gau gee and black bean chicken over rice. However, they gave us the wrong soup - scallop soup (top). I thought it was their version of the hot&sour soup (bottom), even though it wasn't very hot OR sour. So, I actually put white pepper into it before the waitress came and told us that was supposed to be someone else's soup. We kept the two little bowls we already scooped and asked them to take away the big bowl and bring us the hot&sour that we had ordered. While M's favorite soup in Chinese restaurants is hot&sour, as it turned out, he actually enjoyed their scallop better(!) despite his usual dislike for scallops. How ironic is that!

While the food was great, the service is slightly less par. We were not done with our meal yet before I felt rushed as a waitress asked if we needed boxes (because the reserved table next to us was not big enough to seat those guests who showed up, so they wanted us to leave so that they can combine the tables!). All in all, it was a good dining experience. M and I are definitely excited to go back and try some of their other house specials.





Asia Manoa
2801 East Manoa Rd # C
Honolulu, HI 96822-1878
(808) 988-2828
Hours: 10:30am-9pm, daily

Carpaccio of Raw Zucchini

It has been a long while since M and I really cooked. In fact, I don't even recall the last time we were in the kitchen preparing a meal together. However, over this past weekend, we decided to pull together a recipe from Deb's Blog (a la Tyler Florence): Carpaccio of Raw Zucchini. While my food-photo-capturing skills still needs a little work, my picture (above) at least gives you an idea of what my dish turned out like. This is actually a picture of my second time (over the same weekend) preparing this dish. The first time, we were a little heavy on the herbs (specifically flat-leaf parsley) and (deemed by M) a little light on the cheese. So, the second time around, we loaded up on the ricotta, as is evident. Find official recipe here.

Notes: In terms of herbs, we used: Thai basil (super strong, when compared with sweet, Italian basil), mint, flat-leaf parsley, leek, dill. Yumm-o! It was delicious! We enjoyed it with some crusty french bread and warm tomato/basil bisque. Super yummy.

New Blog

Yay! I finally went and did it! I have been wanting to start a food blog for so long and here it finally is. I will try to write as frequently as possible. Chances are, it will not be daily as we don't necessarily eat writing-worthy that frequently, but close enough. :)