Banana Brain
Sous Chef
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I'm back from Hawaii
I just got back today from Hawaii! I only went into ONE really nice don't-show-up-in-blue-jeans restuarant and it was... Roy's! I got the blackened ahi as an appetizer (which I didn't think was all it was built up to be, and I keep reading about it in more and more magazines, oddly) and as an entre I got Roy’s roasted macadamia nut mahi mahi (something called Omaha or something, it was some big white fish fillet I was unfamiliar with) with lobster sauce. I asked the waiter what was in the sauce and he told me there were lobster shells boiled down, some shrimp, crab, cream, bacon in there, basically all kinds of things. It was really delicious to, I finished the sauce long before I finished the fish (actually I never did get to finish the fish, because just then the waiter arived and said if we didn't have dessert now there would be a forty-five minute wait). My boyfriend's entre though was HEAVENLY and I wish I'd have gotten it! I only had one peice but I still remember it. It was this butterfish that litterally melted in my mouth. Can you believe that? Fish that melted in my mouth, not chocolate but fish? I still remember what it tasted like to, and that yummy green and white sauce of his that I ate more of while he excused himself to use the bathroom. I even ate the asperagus on top and all the decorative leaves in stuff. Was I not supposed to do that? For dessert we got the same thing as everyone else in the resturant, a melting chocolate souffle to share with rasberry sauce and a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream sitting in a candy shell. My first souffle and my favorite dessert, I actually ate over half of it! That night I woke up several times feeling very ill and I thought I would throw up for a while. Thats just what happens on nights when I overindulge for dinner. Worth it though.
Sadly, we had reservations for Alan Wong's for our last night there but they were cancelled when we had some um... differences. We're still together, but we had a fight. I thought about going by myself, but that would sort of be a social faux pas I decided. You know, to go into a really nice resturaunt by yourself. But we reconciled last night (in Southern California, not Hawaii, were we stopped for two nights before flying home today) and got a gourmet meal from In-N-Out. Other than that on the vacation for dinner we had the Japanese buffet Todai, a Hawaiian Luau, a very good low-profile Authentic Chinese Place in Chinatown which served mostly just Chinese people, some salads from a "make your own salad" place that had a wonderful selection of cheeses and meats and toppings to choose from, and lots of home-grilled fish. It honestly wasn't as great of a culinery exprience as I would have liked, but I got to go parasailing and up in a small jet plane that did flips in the air. Thanks to everyone who made reccomendations before the trip.
If for some reason anyone is STILL reading at this point, do you think it would have been a social error to walk into a nice romantic resturaunt and eat dinner alone?
I just got back today from Hawaii! I only went into ONE really nice don't-show-up-in-blue-jeans restuarant and it was... Roy's! I got the blackened ahi as an appetizer (which I didn't think was all it was built up to be, and I keep reading about it in more and more magazines, oddly) and as an entre I got Roy’s roasted macadamia nut mahi mahi (something called Omaha or something, it was some big white fish fillet I was unfamiliar with) with lobster sauce. I asked the waiter what was in the sauce and he told me there were lobster shells boiled down, some shrimp, crab, cream, bacon in there, basically all kinds of things. It was really delicious to, I finished the sauce long before I finished the fish (actually I never did get to finish the fish, because just then the waiter arived and said if we didn't have dessert now there would be a forty-five minute wait). My boyfriend's entre though was HEAVENLY and I wish I'd have gotten it! I only had one peice but I still remember it. It was this butterfish that litterally melted in my mouth. Can you believe that? Fish that melted in my mouth, not chocolate but fish? I still remember what it tasted like to, and that yummy green and white sauce of his that I ate more of while he excused himself to use the bathroom. I even ate the asperagus on top and all the decorative leaves in stuff. Was I not supposed to do that? For dessert we got the same thing as everyone else in the resturant, a melting chocolate souffle to share with rasberry sauce and a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream sitting in a candy shell. My first souffle and my favorite dessert, I actually ate over half of it! That night I woke up several times feeling very ill and I thought I would throw up for a while. Thats just what happens on nights when I overindulge for dinner. Worth it though.
Sadly, we had reservations for Alan Wong's for our last night there but they were cancelled when we had some um... differences. We're still together, but we had a fight. I thought about going by myself, but that would sort of be a social faux pas I decided. You know, to go into a really nice resturaunt by yourself. But we reconciled last night (in Southern California, not Hawaii, were we stopped for two nights before flying home today) and got a gourmet meal from In-N-Out. Other than that on the vacation for dinner we had the Japanese buffet Todai, a Hawaiian Luau, a very good low-profile Authentic Chinese Place in Chinatown which served mostly just Chinese people, some salads from a "make your own salad" place that had a wonderful selection of cheeses and meats and toppings to choose from, and lots of home-grilled fish. It honestly wasn't as great of a culinery exprience as I would have liked, but I got to go parasailing and up in a small jet plane that did flips in the air. Thanks to everyone who made reccomendations before the trip.
If for some reason anyone is STILL reading at this point, do you think it would have been a social error to walk into a nice romantic resturaunt and eat dinner alone?