Burger Bite Challenge: The Counter

My lunch at The Counter yesterday was really good. I had a custom-made burger that had tomato, pickle, patty, bun, mayonaise, provolone, and yellow mustard.

The one thing that I didn't appreciate was that there were chives on the corner of the plate AND the toppings were on the bottom. Besides that I loved the burger. As for the french fries, they were 100% greatness. They had some spices which was good. The service was quick and good.

Rating:

Burger: 7/10

Fries: 9/10

Service: 5/10

Appearance: 5/10

Overall score: 26 pts.

Indian Food Lunch!

Though I had a boring banana bread breakfast, I had an exciting lunch in Berkeley, California. I ate Indian street food at Viks Chaat Corner.
I ate:

Mango Lassi,

Aloo Tikki

Pushcarts with large taavas have these potato patties lined up in a circle ready to be served with cholle and chutneys. The crisp skin hides the soft interior,

Masala Dosa,

The Dosa pushcart would set up everyday at 4pm around the corner from Amitabh Bachan’s bungalow in Mumbai. The Dosa Wala would always put the first dosa made at the foot of Ganeshji's altar. He would roll out these savory crepes with filling, on a taava, and serve them with sambar and chutney. Masala is potato filling,

And The Chicken Curry Special

Which is pretty self explanatory. 

Visit the Viks website at vikschaatcorner.com

Then for desert I went to Yogurt Land frozen yogurt.

Holidays and Hamburgers!

I hope you guys had a very merry Christmas and a happy sixth night of Hanukah!

Now on to the burger bit.

There are currently four burger spots in my town. They are: Pearls Phat Burger, Super Duper Burgers, The Counter, and In'N'Out Burger. I am going to eat at all of them to see which is the best. I will eat a plain hamburger (patty, bun, lettuce, tomato, cheese, mustard), a milkshake, and french fries from each joint. I will, of course, blog about each one describing how it is and you will have a say in which one sounds best! If you have one of these in your town, review it in the comments. I will announce the winner soon after I finish with each restaurant. I call this


THE BURGER BITE CHALLENGE!

Your eyes are alright!

Your eyes are not deceiving you:

These are blue jellyfish,

These are green jellyfish,

These are red jellyfish,

This is an orange jellyfish,

These are pink jellyfish,

These are upside-down jellyfish,

This coral does have glow-in-the-dark tips,

This is a glow-in-the-dark sea
anemone, 

This is the Gieco Gecko,

Today is Ghirardelli day at the California Academy of Sciences,

And you can get good fish and chips at the California Academy of Sciences!

Thanks Cal Academy!!!!

You know it's Winter... (pt. 2)

You know it's Winter when...

There are donkeys dressed as reindeer at a farmers market,

You still have a pumpkin that you bought in October to scare off deer,

The ducks are creeping you out by showing you their backsides,

And you feel like you are this polar bear when you wake up in the morning because you are afraid of global warming.

You know it's winter...

You know it's Winter when...

You have sparkly Christmas trees and a Menorah next to each other,

Starbucks has released it's red cups,

You have a tilted Christmas tree,

You can eat latkes at a local farmers market,

You can also eat peppermint Oreos at the local farmers market,

There are chickens at the farmers market,

While at the same time you can eat chicken soup with real chicken fat,

they are selling live fish, lobsters, and crabs at the farmers market,

And you change your chat icon to an apple because you are hoping for apple pie for the holidays!

Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah and Good Kwanzaa to my readers!!!!

Question

this is my question: when talking about devouring soup, do you say eating soup or drinking soup? i should know this.

dim sum and the symphony

  My yearly dose of culture has come and gone. On wednesday night I saw the Boston Symphony Orchestra perform at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. It was wonderful. During intermission I ate New York Cheddar flavored Kettle Chips and some curry cashews.
  And now for the Dim Sum. Last night I got take out from a local restaurant. I had Shrimp Gow, Crescent Mushroom Dumplings, BBQ Pork Buns, Harmony Spring Rolls, Peking Duck, and Classic Shu Mai. The food was all gone before I could take a picture. Here is a link to their website: http://www.harmonyrestaurantgroup.com/
   Finally, my weekly Whole Foods shop and eat lunch was yesterday. I had an Old Mill Park sandwich. It has ham, cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomato, and mayonaise. Here is a link to their website: http://wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/blithedale/

Sunday brunch!

i had brunch at a little restaurant named The Dipsea Cafe. I had The Dipsea Special. It consists of bacon, sausage, home fries, two pancakes, and eggs. I liked it but the pancakes were a little dense.

Friday Night!

So friday i stayed up really late with a friend and we ate popcorn and pizza. it was yummy!

sunday/friday post!

soooo.... Friday night i had an AWESOME dinner in Dallas, Texas at a place called Velvet Taco. AMAZING! here are some pictures:

pulled pork tacos (#8) they were delish but spicy. 5/5

you can not go wrong with mexican sodas. 5/5

so to conclude: if you are in Dallas, visit Velvet Taco.

interesting fact about Velvet Taco: they sell agave fountain drinks as well as maine root brand rootbeer and mexi-cola.

black friday post

this dog enjoyed black friday! how was your thanksgiving? what did you eat? WHAT DID YOU EAT????  this morning i ate a honey greek yogurt and chocolate cheerio's.

thanksgiving part 2

so today is finally thanksgiving! so today i ate a bunch of food including fried turkey and lots of pumpkin pie! but i've got a story.

march of the penguins.
a bad movie.
the dvd goes bad...

so a couple years ago, my cousins got the dvd of march of the penguins. they got it from their cousins (my second cousins). so when ever my second and first cousins get together they try to give eachother the dvd. it happened today. god, was it funny! we were tossing the dvd back and forth and back and forth. then my oldest cousin tried to throw the dvd at his cousins car when they were leaving! would you call that an eventful day? oh yeah, i also ran a 5k.

happy thanksgiving!

hey readers! thanksgiving has come apon us! how are you celebrating? answer in the comments. my family is celebrating by getting the WHOLE  family together and eating a bunch of really good food like pie and fried turkey!!!!
so today is a travel day. i traveled to dallas texas to meet my family. sadly, my plane was delayed a couple hours. but im here in texas fine and safe.
i hope you have a good and happy thanksgiving!

banana dance!

so what do you think these are? they are bananas!

banana cheer:

form banana,

form form banana,

now peeeel banana,

peel peel banana,

now go bananas!

GO GO BANANAS!

yet another late post... :(

sorry about late posts. i'll work on trying to get them done but im caught up in a lot of stuff right now and with thanksgiving coming up...  so here is sunday's post:

breakfast:

DELICIOUS pumpkin pancakes!!!!

for dinner i had polenta encrusted chicken. pictures of that to come.

sorry about a late Saturday.

the title explains everything but i do have some interesting food.

lunch: Chicken Veggie soup, Kettle Brand Tias Chile Picante flavor, and San Pellegrino Limonita at Whole Foods.

Then for dinner we had an amazing pasta with pumpkin and sausage sauce.

pasta remains!

only remains were left of this delish pasta dinner.

TACOS!

tonight is taco night!

this is my kind of taco. beans, warm tortilla, avocado, feta cheese, and hot sauce!

An ice cream recipe!

this is from my bff's blog:
"i made such awesome vanilla ice cream!!! we made it the old fashion way which is just my defenition of without an ice cream maker or anything fancy lik that.
Ingredients:

• 14 oz condensed milk (1 can)
• 1 cup water (this may be hard to find... hehehe)
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 pint heavy whipping cream (haha, everything on the list starts w/ 1!!!)

so to make it, just mix everything in a bowl and put a pan (or keep in bowl but pan is best) in the  freezer. While it is freezing, check on it every 15-30 min and stir and scrape the edges. do this until frozen or however u want it. if u want coffee ice cream, add 1 cup of coffee instead of vanilla and it u want peppermint, just add peppermint extract instead of vanilla. u can also experiment and make ur own flavors!

so here's a question! What does ice cream make you think of?????? please write your answer in the comments section.

Thanksgiving; 8 days early!

so today i had a mini thanksgiving for dinner!
Pork tenderloin; perfectly covered with mashed potatoes.
Mashed Potatoes; they were chunky but delish.
Salad; the vinaigrette covered everything and tasted good!

First Post

Hello new readers! This blog is going to be about GOOD food and what I eat that is interesting.
Today's interesting meals:
Dinner: red curry; my favorite thing about red curry is dripping the tangy sauce over sweet rice.

if you were wondering you will see a lot of life stories in my blog to go along with the food.