*896 - gore and food

I have never had much tolerance for scary movies/shows/literature, and refusal to engage in anything horrific has not helped my situation at all. My weekend was filled with visions of gore, spent quivering at every creak and weeping over the phone, and plagued by 1.5 nightmares because of the two episodes of Dexter (Season 1) that I watched.

The gore isn't what gets to me, really, it's the psychological mind tricks that do.

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Anyway, food photos from a long time ago--when we first arrived in Boston! Actually, it has barely been six weeks ... so much has happened and changed since then that it feels like an eternity ago. Yet, everything's still so foreign that I can barely believe I've already been here for six weeks. What contradictions.

Food food food in Boston! I love cities for their food. As a point of comparison, I've eaten at practically every good restaurant on my checklist of "To Eats" in Ithaca and would have to drive long and far to try out a new, good restaurant. In big cities, the choices are endless. Endless!! :D

Anyway, what follows is not an accurate documentation of what/where we ate over the course of a week. Just a scattering of pictures that now, a month later and while missing him, have much nostalgic value :)

The Ikea staple: Swedish meatballs with lingonberry sauce. We went to Ikea three days in a row (I think) and had this twice! Yum yums.



One of our "traveling to a new place that has a Chinatown" staples: dim sum! They had the biggest siew mai I had ever seen (fuzzy, in background). I've chronicled so many of our dim sum adventures photographically, so I decided that the less photogenic and, hence, less photographed cheong fun deserved a shot this time.



Caprese with arugula salad at the cutest little Italian restaurant down the road. Empty during lunch but insanely crowded during dinner.



What gets Mr. A all excited: fried dough! An impromptu mid-day picnic on Boston Common.



Clam chowder in a bread bowl at Quincy Market, of course.



The first home-cooked meal (hurriedly tossed together in hunger, if I recall): gingered stir fried chicken and baby bok choy.



Smelly tofu at a really good Taiwanese place nearby: Mr. A, forgiveably, did not enjoy it. Everything else was really good, though, and leftovers fed me for three more meals.



Another obsession of ours: bubble tea. I never thought much of bubble tea in Singapore, where one could get it for a dollar a cup--all the craze with the cutesy schoolgirls, back in the day. Here, bubble tea may be served in swanky glasses for USD$4 a cup.



The best frozen banana I've ever had--a very clever purchase at the Italian North End festival, because a frozen banana will not melt even in the heat.



Waiting in trepidation for his very ... first ...



... raw little neck clam. (Flavorful, but slightly gritty.) At an oyster bar at the same street fest. I was nervous but we suffered no tummy ailments :)



Um, cabbage. The same cabbage featured a few posts below on the same night with the same drunken delight. I feel like I have been eating so much cabbage, so endlessly over the past month or so, that I can barely believe I only just finished it a few days ago. It also amazes me that it stayed fresh and edible for more than a month. Is that normal??



End of random food post :)