Thursday, July 28, 2005
Sunday, July 24, 2005
le bite
I haven't been to the Bite of Seattle in years, perhaps even half a decade. On Saturday, the wife and I decided to try our luck at this palatable gathering. Traffic to the Seattle Center was solid as expected, but we were able to find parking relatively easily a few blocks from Key Arena. A quick jaywalk and some frogger action and we were in food heaven... or so we thought.
Perhaps the years are making the memories sweeter, but I remember shelling out my $3 and picking up a small dish of salmon handed to me by Wolfgang Puck. OK, perhaps I didn't snatch the plate directly from Mr Puck himself, but he was definitely there, leering at people while his minions scurried about. I also remember a large number of recognizable and better known restaurants of Seattle participating.
This year it seemed that the list of participating restaurants wasn't impressive. There was a group of Thai restaurants that had banded together to form a somewhat impressive wall of peanut sauce serving booths. Beyond that, there were beer gardens and your normal carny-food; roasted corn, elephant ears and stawberry shortcakes. There was also a BBQ stand that had Seattle's *Best BBQ.
Another new phenomenon is the sudden appearance of small dogs as accessories. Follwing the footsteps of Paris and Britney, every third girl (mostly asian) seemed to have a malnourished dog the size of a NY subway rat. It makes me wonder what the future holds for these poor beasts. As the trends change or if these dogs hit doggy-puberty, will they do longer be desirable and left at home next to last year's Coach bag, trying to keep warm in the desolate apartments by huddling in the abandoned uggs.
*Best BBQ at the 2003 Bite of Seattle. Records show this was the only bbq at the 2003 Bite of Seattle.
Perhaps the years are making the memories sweeter, but I remember shelling out my $3 and picking up a small dish of salmon handed to me by Wolfgang Puck. OK, perhaps I didn't snatch the plate directly from Mr Puck himself, but he was definitely there, leering at people while his minions scurried about. I also remember a large number of recognizable and better known restaurants of Seattle participating.
This year it seemed that the list of participating restaurants wasn't impressive. There was a group of Thai restaurants that had banded together to form a somewhat impressive wall of peanut sauce serving booths. Beyond that, there were beer gardens and your normal carny-food; roasted corn, elephant ears and stawberry shortcakes. There was also a BBQ stand that had Seattle's *Best BBQ.
Another new phenomenon is the sudden appearance of small dogs as accessories. Follwing the footsteps of Paris and Britney, every third girl (mostly asian) seemed to have a malnourished dog the size of a NY subway rat. It makes me wonder what the future holds for these poor beasts. As the trends change or if these dogs hit doggy-puberty, will they do longer be desirable and left at home next to last year's Coach bag, trying to keep warm in the desolate apartments by huddling in the abandoned uggs.
*Best BBQ at the 2003 Bite of Seattle. Records show this was the only bbq at the 2003 Bite of Seattle.
Saturday, July 16, 2005
Green Tea Frappuchinos!
If you pick up a new Starbucks Green Tea Frappuccino expecting it to taste like macha you'll be in for a surprise. As the result of focus groups and blind taste tests done in the US, the Green Tea Frappuccino doesn't actually taste like green tea. In order to sweeten the taste and hide the green tea taste, they add a shot of melon syrup. You can ask the barista to hold the melon syrup if you like.
Just FYI if you've gone in and grabbed on and left thinking 'what the heck is this?'
Just FYI if you've gone in and grabbed on and left thinking 'what the heck is this?'
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