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What’s the most delicious thing you’ve ever eaten?
You know what? This is probably one of the more harder questions I have ever answered in my life. How can you choose one dish or one meal to be the “most delicious”? You cannot. There is no such thing as “the most delicious thing you’ve ever eaten”. However, I will say that there have been many “most delicious food experiences” I’ve ever had. Allow me to explain below in the best way I know how…by making a list.
- level 4 spicy 豚骨ラーメン (tonkotsu ramen) from 一蘭 (Ichiran) ramen chain.
- I’ve been to Tokyo, Taipei, & Hong Kong (IMO…Tokyo locations are the absolute best)
- freshly cooked, piping hot sausage on a stick at the Shilin Night Market in Taipei, Taiwan
- double bowl of 红烧牛肉面 (braised beef noodle soup) at a 50+ year old noodle shop with my closest friends in Taipei, Taiwan (after a wedding)
- sushi soooo fresh, the fish head is still moving, at my family’s favorite restaurant in Yokohama, Japan (just outside of the train station)
- double bowl of 雪菜肉丝面 (snow cabbage beef noodle soup) with my maternal grandmother in Shanghai, China
- homemade/handmade hamburger patties made by my mom with 2 slices of melted cheddar cheese
- first time taste of lobster, 2-pound lobster on the wharf at Abalonetti’s in Monterey, California with my parents
- 9-course steamed chicken dinner at Toriyoshi restaurant with friends in Tokyo, Japan
- ice cream & corn flake parfait dessert at Toriyoshi restaurant in Tokyo, Japan
- first time taste of mille crêpe cake from Café La Voie in Tokyo, Japan
- Jian’s homemade version of a French cassoulet
- Liberty Farms™ BBQ duck at The Progress restaurant in San Francisco, California
- Liberty Farms™ smoked duck at The Morris restaurant in San Francisco, California
- buckwheat donuts at The Morris restaurant in San Francisco, California
- deluxe seafood tower at Wright Brothers restaurant in London, England
- roast beef sandwich on sliced sourdough bread with Swiss cheese, red onions, mixed greens & garlic aioli spread from my local grocery store.
I had to make a list of some of the most delicious things I’ve ever eaten. I couldn’t choose only one thing. Plus, it’s hard to think about all the things one has eaten in their entire lives & choose only one specific thing to be the absolute favorite or most delicious. How does a person choose only one? More importantly, how could a person go back through the memory catalog of their life & try to remember all of the foods they have consumed in their lifetime, then decide which dish reigns supreme (not an Iron Chef pun, I swear)? I don’t want to think that hard or make some ridiculously absurd justification about one frou-frou meal I had at some fancy-schmancy restaurant somewhere exotic. So I made a list.
My food preferences are all over the place, but that’s okay. I am not really an adventurous eater, but I am still willing to try foreign foods. Jian is pushing me to try new foods, or foods I have refused to eat in the past, when we travel again to Japan later this year. We shall see. Until the next meal, cheers.
Today’s song of the day:
If you were forced to wear one outfit over and over again, what would it be?
This is as straightforward of an answer I can give you: jeans & a sweatshirt. I live in an area within California where I can pretty much wear long pants & sweatshirts/sweaters all year round. There is one small stretch at the end of summer, just before fall, where it gets almost unbearably hot. However, pretty much throughout the other parts of the year, I can wear long pants & long sleeve shirts.
My go-to outfit pretty much every day is a pair of skinny jeans & either a long-sleeve shirt, a sweatshirt, or a lightweight sweater. Since I don’t have to get dressed up to go to a corporate office, or meet anybody in a formal setting, I don’t have much need to wear business casual clothing. I have some formalwear, a few basic pieces that I can throw on for special occasions, but most of my everyday wardrobe since becoming a parent, has been taken over by comfort-wear.
I have a small selection of skinny jeans in various shades of blue that I rotate through weekly. I don’t follow the major fashion trends, & I know skinny jeans are not in style right now, but I don’t care. I’m fairly short in stature, so I feel like wearing any other style of jeans (i.e. boyfriend fit, relaxed fit, boot leg, etc.) would just make me look shorter, wider in frame, & frumpy. I am a skinny or straight leg jeans lady for life. Also, being a creature of habit, I always stay within the blue hue range. I am not comfortable venturing out to other colors in jeans.
Because of the area I live in, the weather is always temperate, so I don’t usually have to put away my autumn/winter clothes or rotate my wardrobe based on the seasons. I have a dedicated shelf in my closet just for my regular-use sweaters & sweatshirts. I rotate through these items weekly. If you were to ask me, I would say that I prefer sweatshirts over sweaters, but that’s only because sweatshirts are easy to throw in to the washing machine, whereas sweaters need to be specialty hand washed or dry cleaned. I’m not a particularly messy or sloppy person, buuuttt…I can be rough & careless at times when I do things, & that can create irreversible messes on my clothes. So, casual sweatshirts are the way to go! They keep me warm, hides my body image issues, & can withstand my day-to-day activities.
So there you have it. I’m a sweatshirt & jeans kind of lady. I don’t have to take too much time in the mornings to choose an outfit. I can grab & go, & with a little child that takes for-ev-er to get ready in the mornings, it’s always easiest to have something simple to throw on & not have to think too much about it. Of course, I wouldn’t be my usual OCD self if I didn’t add on that my everyday clothing must be clean & wrinkle-free. I may be a basic dresser, but I will never compromise on cleanliness & neatness/tidiness. That is all. Cheers.
Today’s song of the day:
How do you waste the most time every day?
This is an easy one. I waste my time in 3 different ways. Here’s my breakdown.
First off, my main time waster, & apparently my biggest phone battery drainer these days, is Instagram. Since I don’t use TikTok, thank God, I watch a lot of Instagram reels, which are basically re-posted TikTok videos across all the social media video platforms. There are also a few key Instagram accounts of content creators that I follow faithfully; I am constantly refreshing my IG feed to check for new postings from them of any kind.
Second, I follow these same content creators pretty much on most of the major social media platforms, & YouTube is one of them. Some of the key accounts I follow are of musicians. So I am constantly checking to see if they have posted any new music or videos, or if anybody has reposted any interviews or concert clips of these artists.
Third, & lastly, I read quite a bit of celebrity tabloids. I can lose track of time reading through all of the day’s entertainment/celebrity news & tabloid gossip. Reading entertainment & pop culture news also provides an annoying distraction especially when I am trying to write but am also procrastinating (a lot).
I prioritize what is the most important in my life, but once I get a little bit of free time to myself, I end up wasting that time doing things like regularly checking my favorite artist’s social media updates, or mindlessly scrolling through IG reels or YT shorts.I
want to make the most of my precious little free time, but I often let it slip away doing these 3 things as mentioned above. I should end my post here, & get back to my priorities, like washing my hair. Until the next prompt, cheers to you.
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