Saturday, February 03, 2007
The Breads ARE Sweet!
Again, like last time, if you click on a thumbnail, you’ll get a 1024x768 version – but this time around, I did that artistic thing where the thumbnail isn’t the actual pic, but instead it’s a part of the pic, so when you click you’ll get the whole pic, at 1024x768…
Anyway, before we talk about Pangaea, let’s see what I did this week… oh, not much. Played more Guitar Hero, and I’d like to think I’m getting better. I’m definitely better than when I first started, but my daily growth probably isn’t that great.
For Christmas, I bought Wen a copy of “Done the Impossible” – The Fan’s tale of Firefly and Serenity, which is the story of the rise and fall and rebirth of the cult TV show “Firefly”, as told from the perspective of the fans who helped save it (from the dvd case). I bought a copy for myself too, and I finally got around to finish watching it, and it’s really well made! And I learned from it, and I learned new perspectives about the show. If you’ve seen Firefly, perhaps you’d like to take a look. If you haven’t seen Firefly, then it has a few spoilers, but it’s still a good documentary.
Next week (Saturday) is Winterlicious Outing 3, and afterwards some of us are going to a club where a VSA party is being held. The weekend after is the 17th, and reading week for the students starts on the 19th, so there will probably be a few get-togethers around this time. Remember, Mathies will probably come back Wednesday night instead of earlier.
Anyway, onto Pangaea! So, Pangaea is Winterlicious outing #2, with the same people as last time, minus Alan minus Wen, plus Geoff. We drove the van again, but neither snow nor traffic were bad so we got there on time with plenty to spare.
I said I was going to have the Lobster Bisque, but on the menu it wasn’t lobster bisque, it was ‘parsnip and lemon’ bisque, so I decided to try the salad. The roasted pear was very interesting – it’s a lot more pear than I expected, and it was pretty nice. I’d have to roast pear one day myself. The rest of the greens were alright. I’m not a green connoisseur, but it wasn’t a traditional lettuce-full salad, and it was interesting to eat.
Remember, the thumbnail is just a snippet of the whole pic. This is the grilled quail with the tempura onion ring(s) and the mustard-honey sauce. I had a bite of quail, it was fine. I thought the sweetbreads would be somewhat ‘meatful’, so I decided to have something ‘less-meat’ as an appetizer. Honey mustard is mustard that tastes like honey; mustard honey is honey that tastes like mustard; so tastes like mustard, texture of honey. It was fun.
Geoff and Ray had wine, while Ricky and I shared a pot of Earl Grey tea ($5 for the pot, free refills of hot water). I don’t know anything about teas, and Earl Grey is famous but I don’t remember trying it before, but apparently I did… it was pretty good though. $5 for a novelty thing between two people is cool. I thought maybe we should try something more exotic, like Cenyon, Leap Frog, high grown, B.O.P. or whatever, but that’s okay. Anyway, Ricky had the bisque. I dipped the bread in it, and it was pretty interesting. Lemony indeed.
Here is Geoff’s or Ray’s lamb dinner, taken from Duy’s perspective. Unfortunately I didn’t get to try it.
Here is Duy’s fish dinner. The black little dots are Beluga lentils.
And here is my dinner, as well as Jason’s, Ricky’s, and Ambrose’s. What did you expect Sweetbreads to look like? So, it’s not as pretty as the Cornish Hen, but boy, was it good! Those black things are the lentils I got from Duy. Duy didn’t like the lentils. Anyway, sweetbreads are gooood. The rest of the dish is very interesting too and complimented the sweetbreads. It felt like a potato crisp, like a hashbrown kinda thing, with some apple, bacon, and cabbage.
It was kinda dark in the restaurant, so I didn’t see this much colour in my meal, but the camera got it.
This is how the sweetbread dish looks like when it’s spread open. Come on, click on it, you know you want to. Save it as your wallpaper.
This is the passionfruit pot de crème. Acqua’s crème brulee was much better. The pot de crème is like a cream pudding sorta thing – it was okay. The fruit medley consisted of… umm… I’m not actually sure. There was a kiwi, and some citrus like thing, or maybe it was thinly sliced melon of something. And there are these coconut cookies, which totally didn’t make sense to me. It didn’t complement the rest of the dessert – they were crunchy and they didn’t mix with the rest. I tried putting some pot de crème on a cookie, it was meh.
This is the ginger cake. I had a bite, it was pretty good. Not sure if I would’ve rated it much higher than the pot de crème though. Acqua certainly had a better finish for the meal, but the Entrées at Pangaea were better. Both appetizers at both restaurants (at least for me) were pretty interesting, so let’s call it a tie, heh… although I really liked the butternut squash dumplings. If I can make butternut squash dumplings and roasted pear, that’d be great.
The reservations were at 7:30, and we finished eating by 8:45, so it was quite a bit faster than Acqua, but it didn't feel rushed or anything. We had various conversations, including ones that include the words Jia, Rama, rice, Ragu, Barrel of Apples, and the ever popular stories involving Bread, bread, sandwiches, soups, and talking to moving piles of garbage.
I didn’t take pictures of the bathroom this time.
Comments:
Post a Comment
 Again, like last time, if you click on a thumbnail, you’ll get a 1024x768 version – but this time around, I did that artistic thing where the thumbnail isn’t the actual pic, but instead it’s a part of the pic, so when you click you’ll get the whole pic, at 1024x768… Anyway, before we talk about Pangaea, let’s see what I did this week… oh, not much. Played more Guitar Hero, and I’d like to think I’m getting better. I’m definitely better than when I first started, but my daily growth probably isn’t that great. For Christmas, I bought Wen a copy of “Done the Impossible” – The Fan’s tale of Firefly and Serenity, which is the story of the rise and fall and rebirth of the cult TV show “Firefly”, as told from the perspective of the fans who helped save it (from the dvd case). I bought a copy for myself too, and I finally got around to finish watching it, and it’s really well made! And I learned from it, and I learned new perspectives about the show. If you’ve seen Firefly, perhaps you’d like to take a look. If you haven’t seen Firefly, then it has a few spoilers, but it’s still a good documentary. Next week (Saturday) is Winterlicious Outing 3, and afterwards some of us are going to a club where a VSA party is being held. The weekend after is the 17th, and reading week for the students starts on the 19th, so there will probably be a few get-togethers around this time. Remember, Mathies will probably come back Wednesday night instead of earlier. Anyway, onto Pangaea! So, Pangaea is Winterlicious outing #2, with the same people as last time, minus Alan minus Wen, plus Geoff. We drove the van again, but neither snow nor traffic were bad so we got there on time with plenty to spare.  I said I was going to have the Lobster Bisque, but on the menu it wasn’t lobster bisque, it was ‘parsnip and lemon’ bisque, so I decided to try the salad. The roasted pear was very interesting – it’s a lot more pear than I expected, and it was pretty nice. I’d have to roast pear one day myself. The rest of the greens were alright. I’m not a green connoisseur, but it wasn’t a traditional lettuce-full salad, and it was interesting to eat.  Remember, the thumbnail is just a snippet of the whole pic. This is the grilled quail with the tempura onion ring(s) and the mustard-honey sauce. I had a bite of quail, it was fine. I thought the sweetbreads would be somewhat ‘meatful’, so I decided to have something ‘less-meat’ as an appetizer. Honey mustard is mustard that tastes like honey; mustard honey is honey that tastes like mustard; so tastes like mustard, texture of honey. It was fun.  Geoff and Ray had wine, while Ricky and I shared a pot of Earl Grey tea ($5 for the pot, free refills of hot water). I don’t know anything about teas, and Earl Grey is famous but I don’t remember trying it before, but apparently I did… it was pretty good though. $5 for a novelty thing between two people is cool. I thought maybe we should try something more exotic, like Cenyon, Leap Frog, high grown, B.O.P. or whatever, but that’s okay. Anyway, Ricky had the bisque. I dipped the bread in it, and it was pretty interesting. Lemony indeed.  Here is Geoff’s or Ray’s lamb dinner, taken from Duy’s perspective. Unfortunately I didn’t get to try it.  Here is Duy’s fish dinner. The black little dots are Beluga lentils.  And here is my dinner, as well as Jason’s, Ricky’s, and Ambrose’s. What did you expect Sweetbreads to look like? So, it’s not as pretty as the Cornish Hen, but boy, was it good! Those black things are the lentils I got from Duy. Duy didn’t like the lentils. Anyway, sweetbreads are gooood. The rest of the dish is very interesting too and complimented the sweetbreads. It felt like a potato crisp, like a hashbrown kinda thing, with some apple, bacon, and cabbage. It was kinda dark in the restaurant, so I didn’t see this much colour in my meal, but the camera got it.  This is how the sweetbread dish looks like when it’s spread open. Come on, click on it, you know you want to. Save it as your wallpaper.  This is the passionfruit pot de crème. Acqua’s crème brulee was much better. The pot de crème is like a cream pudding sorta thing – it was okay. The fruit medley consisted of… umm… I’m not actually sure. There was a kiwi, and some citrus like thing, or maybe it was thinly sliced melon of something. And there are these coconut cookies, which totally didn’t make sense to me. It didn’t complement the rest of the dessert – they were crunchy and they didn’t mix with the rest. I tried putting some pot de crème on a cookie, it was meh.  This is the ginger cake. I had a bite, it was pretty good. Not sure if I would’ve rated it much higher than the pot de crème though. Acqua certainly had a better finish for the meal, but the Entrées at Pangaea were better. Both appetizers at both restaurants (at least for me) were pretty interesting, so let’s call it a tie, heh… although I really liked the butternut squash dumplings. If I can make butternut squash dumplings and roasted pear, that’d be great. The reservations were at 7:30, and we finished eating by 8:45, so it was quite a bit faster than Acqua, but it didn't feel rushed or anything. We had various conversations, including ones that include the words Jia, Rama, rice, Ragu, Barrel of Apples, and the ever popular stories involving Bread, bread, sandwiches, soups, and talking to moving piles of garbage. I didn’t take pictures of the bathroom this time. |