garlic fries, dimsum, crawfish and cupcakes

time for the weekend recap! notice i put all food items? haha

friday hunny and i went to gordon biersch in SF for allen's bday. hunny and i shared a burger and salad to try to stay healthy yet fullfill our meat cravings - but of course we get to have garlic fries with the burger. yum! although they weren't as garlicky as i remembered. after the food, we headed out to a lounge. first we went to sip - and it was empty! then we went to rosewood room - which i really liked, but as soon as we got there, a bunch of people left and it became mostly empty. what's going on? do we smell bad or something? (could be the garlic fries - but i didn't think it was that bad!) anyhow we chilled there for a while just chatting things up. then allen decides he's ready to break his vegetarianism - during the week he's vegetarian and during the weekend he gets to eat meat. we were within walking distance to the "green place" so we left for some jiew yeem yow yu (salt and pepper calamari) and other late nite chinese food goodies. (beef noodles, fried stuffed tofu, salty fish and chicken fried rice). we weren't event hungry. haha...

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saturday i met up with family for an early mother's day dimsum at pan tao in cupertino. i'm so used to calling that place samkee even though the name changed long ago. grandma enjoyed seeing a whole lotta relatives and eating yummy food. however jon and i were holding ourselves back. why? crayfish!

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UOP has a huge crayfish boil which is sponsored by an alumni that has become well off after school. they ship in fresh crayfish from new orleans and cook it up free for the students and their friends. luckily i'm one of the friends. hehe. jon's best friend christine let us join her for the grubbing. luckily they all told me to change out of my dress and heels before i went. juices and shells were flying everywhere! jon also brought along a nice bottle of syrah to pair with the spicy crayfish. yum! i'm still drooling thinking about it. jon brought some home before to share with us, but it's definitely much better when it's fresh.

jon, christine and her bf tiger

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me and baby bro

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saturday nite was hunny's friend elaine's bday so we went to le colonial. i like that place since it's upscale and an older crowd. there are two areas - one with many chairs and couches, the other is for dancing. they play a good mix of hip hop, dance and oldies so the group loved it.

sunday hunny had to work so i did some cleaning around the house and then started watching tv with his bro stanley. we generally watch the food channel and they had a bobby flay showdown with a lady who has a cupcake store in eagle rock, california. stanley eventually would like to open up his own cupcake store also in the bay area when he finishes culinary school so he was definitely into the show. flay made a gingerbread cupcake with mango icing and the challenger made her famous red velvet cupcake. note - the secret to moist cupcakes is to use oil instead of butter. anyhow, after all the cupcake watching we were craving cupcakes so we made some chocolate devil food cake cupcakes with vanilla icing. yum! i brought some home and they were devoured quickly with none left for me today. booo. it's ok, i ate about 4. hehe. from sunday to monday of course, not all in one sitting.

sunday i also went to janet's going away party and had a mini scimagician reunion. so sad janet is leaving! i barely even got to see her since she was always travelling. she was truly one of the best bosses i've ever had and that company had the greatest group of people to work with.

i was going to go running sunday, didn't go. i was going to go gymming monday, didn't go. so i went for a long run today. hooray i finally got my lazy butt to work out! haah. the good thing about weight training is that i notice i'm able to burn more while eating badly. of course i'm watching my portions during the week, but hey when it's weekend, yum yum! i'm sure i could see faster results of weight loss if i didn't eat so much during the weekend. but that would be torture. i don't mind slow weight loss if i get to indulge.