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Skriven 2007-08-28 12:13:28 av Michael Loo (1:18/200)
     Kommentar till en text av Hap Newsom
Ärende: Korean eats 54
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 -=> Hap Newsom said to Carol Shenkenberger <=-

 HN> We have a very (VERY) large Korean Community here so there are lots
 HN> and lots of Korean eating places that are very good. I took Michael to
 HN> one of my fav's on his last trip out here. 
 
And very nice it was. Good food, efficient service, decent prices,
okay, or is that obee, beer. Odd name, Soon Yi Allen Number Two
or something. The only major quibble I had was that the pork was
too lean! Perhaps I am used to lower class joints.

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 HN> While Anne and I both enjoy fine dining, our normal dining experiences
 HN> usually costs less than$40 for the two of us for the entire meal plus
 HN> tip. So $20.99 each is a bit pr icier than we usually go...but not
 HN> extraordinarily so.

Our east coast big city prices are high by comparison: I'm lucky
to get out for $40 a person most places.

Yesterday I had an interesting meal with my friend Joel -
he was helping me get rid of the last of my stuff, and
as he and his wife have been helpful and good friends
and have had me over for dinner a hundred times, I took
him to the best place I know of on the north shore -
Zafferano, in Orient Heights. We were the only table in
the joint all evening, and the bread that came in its
elegant spiral holder was yesterday's, ah well. I always
get the trofeo di melanzane, the eggplant-cheese tower in
tomato cream, to split, and that's what we did. Yesterday's
bread went well with. I gave Joel all the cheese.

I ordered the Zonin Pinot Grigio 05, a thinnish wine,
slightly citrusy, slightly minerally, not too interesting
by itself and beaten up by the tomato cream sauce of the
appetizer, but as it turns out okay with the main courses.

Joel, who doesn't eat meat in restaurants, had the special
mushroom risotto, which was absolutely wonderful, better
than mine. The mushrooms were mostly the tame wild ones
you get - shiitake and oyster - but that was made up for
with great vast lashings of truffle oil. My veal with
mushrooms in white wine was also good, though the mushrooms
were the same ones as in his risotto. A salad came with,
but whose it was is open to debate. It was at Joel's left
and my right, so I figured it was his; he thought it was
mine (this is what happens when two guys fight over a salad),
so we split it. Fresh greens, good balsamic, good olive oil.

For dessert, Chardonnay di Nonnino, a light golden grappa
from Jacopo Poli (or so the proprietor said). Nice tropical
fruit, a bit of leather, perhaps a lesser effort but still
attractive.

When time came to run my credit card, it didn't take. I
gave him another card. It didn't take. I called the bank,
which said that everything was fine. He ran the first card
again. It didn't take. He ran his wife's card. Same story.
I ended up leaving him the details of my emergency card
and told him to charge up $100 when he got the machine up.

And then on to South Station, where my credit card did work,
and I was on the 9:45 to Washington, biz class for $41 extra.
I hiked up to the biz class car and plopped down in the
rather spare seat. The conductor came by and evicted me,
saying that in fact even though it said business class, the
car was outfitted in coach, and would I please move to the
club car, where I found a fat seat with good pitch and good
recline in a 2+1 configuration. A Courvoisier and a half a
Benadryl and I was in the land of nod, from 128 all the way
to Baltimore, 8 solid hours and 15 stops. Oh, by the way,
despite its being a fat seat with good pitch and good recline
and with calf and foot rests, it was probably the most
uncomfortable public trans seat I've sat on in a long time.
I don't know, its bulges and creases were in just the wrongest
possible places for my body.
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