i like to eat.

It was my creative director's birthday on Friday, so a colleague brought some delicious, sugar-filled donuts for breakfast. The box of goodies contained glazed, old fashioned, chocolate covered and crumbled. I took the crumbled and oh my, it was yummy. I haven't had a donut in a long time, so it tasted satisfying. But, at the same time, unhealthy. :X

For lunch, my cross-functional team left the office for a team building event. We decided to go to Daly City for lunch at L&L Hawaiian Barbecue and bowling. I didn't stay for bowling since I had to go back to the office, but I ate lunch with them at L&L.

L&L is a Hawaiian fast food restaurant. The menu is filled with all sorts of Hawaiian originals such as lau lau, barbecued short ribs/chicken/beef, katsu (breaded chicken, like the Japanese version), saimen (noodles), Kahlua pork and macaroni salad.

At any Hawaiian restaurant, I usually get the local favorite, "Loco Moco." It's a heavy meal with 2 hamburger patties, 2 eggs, rice and macaroni salad - all smothered with brown gravy. I smartly enough, ordered the mini version that was half the size. It came with only 1 patty, 1 egg, rice and macaroni salad. It was comforting, although, again, like the donut, felt a little unhealthy.

The little plastic cup next to my meal is called "hapai" or coconut pudding. It was only a dollar and it sure tasted cheap. :X It tasted like fake coconut and I knew it was made from coconut pudding powder. Oh well, what did I expect at a fast food chain?

And for dinner....see next post. :) This one's getting quite long.

   

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A long time ago, I had been to Island Cafe on Taraval x 19th during a late night and enjoyed it. I had a dish called “Loco Moco” which consisted of 2 hamburger patties, 2 large heapings of rice and a scoop of macaroni salad, all drenched in brown gravy. It was delicious and needless to say, fulfilling. Ever since then, I’ve had good memories of this meal but never went back because it was way too far.

And then came Saturday….my boyfriend, our friend and I went to Golden Gate Park (sorta nearby) and afterwards went hunting for this restaurant. I was anticipating some comforting Hawaiian food and was gushing all about it during the drive there.

Stepped in…couldn’t decide what to order (we were pretty hungry by then) and finally settled on a saimin noodles (a “special” kind of Hawaiian noodle) with BBQ chicken. I don’t know what I was expecting, but definitely not what I got. The noodles were over cooked and the ratio of chicken to vegetables was 2:1. Ugh. Too much chicken!

My boyfriend ordered the Kalua Pork (a “specialty” of the restaurant) and it was nothing to talk about. I had taken a picture but it wasn’t of good quality. :T Sorry.

It wasn’t as satisfying as I remembered. What a bummer. I had such high hopes. I hate when that happens, you go back to a place and it’s a disaster. So many restaurants are like that….no consistency! Come on people! Get your act together. :P