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Skriven 2011-10-09 22:24:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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 HN> Yay for Lilli! Give her a hug from us and
 HN> have FUN in Waikiki! Ahhh my old stompin 
 HN> grounds...

We did okay in Waikiki. Walked around the beach
a lot, ate at cheap dives, got a free bottle of
Champers (pink California sparkling wine, actually,
from Woodbridge Champagne Cellars) that saved us
several drinks. Though we did end up with Longboard
Ale (for me) and cheap red wine (for her) at maybe
half a dozen places.

I wonder if the Seaside or Moose Mcgillicuddy's was
around when you were, or even if the neighborhood is
still at all recognizable. I had some lovely Spam
and Portuguese sausage at the former and some lovely
alcohol at Moose's, where we had gone to give Amy
the bartender the sad news that our buddy Dave, who
had introduced us to the place a couple years ago,
had died. Luckily Amy doesn't work there any more,
so we didn't have to bum her out. If she still
worked there, we might have wanted to let her know
why he didn't show up any more, but this way, ...

An interesting meal at the Side Street Inn on Hopaka
off Piikoi: a big plate of "ocean clam sashimi,"
which contrary to its name was boiled clams, big
ones, bellies discarded, 27 of them for $10. They
had been tenderized in some way and tasted almost
exactly like canned abalone, something that costs
tons of money but is still somewhat disappointing
to eat. For $8, as I didn't particularly care for
Lilli to starve, we also got a pound plate of
Chinese-style roast pork belly, which was pretty
good in a Chinatown greasy spoon way. I had of
course Longboards; she had Kunde Cabernet, which
was a relative bargain at $6 the glass, and whose
spicy peppery flavor went well with the meat.

Nother sort of interesting meal: the Surf Lanai at
the Royal Hawaiian, where as a Starwood Platinum
she got a free lunch, which consisted of an appie
of the house's choice (I forget what it was), a
main course out of a choice of 4 (Lilli got a
wagyu cheeseburger), and dessert. The burger,
ordered medium-rare, came medium of course (she
never learns) and was quite unluscious, not very
wagyu, but whatever, the price was right. The
place got its pound of flesh even as we got ours,
though: I got the $22 red wine braised short ribs
with "crushed potato and parsnip" and grilled
asparagus - pretty good but way overpriced, about
half a pound of decent short ribs that had a decent
amount of fat: three pieces, almost perfect cubes
and clearly prefrozen, in a very heavily thickened
but decent gravy. The asparagus were quite good,
the crushed stuff indistinguishable from mashed
potatoes out of a boil-in-bag. Dessert: haupia cake,
somewhat dry.

The rest of our food was burgers, fruit, or whatever
was free or cheap at the bars.

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 -> It's strong, but it can't be nastier than the
 -> Septra.
 HN> Never had that, but they claimed that the 
 HN> cipro course that we had was just about
 HN> the strongest and most "potent" antibiotic
 HN> given.

Cipro is one of of the most broad-spectrum, but it is
not nearly as nasty - its side effects won't kill anyone,
but Septra has been known to do patients in. But I
understand Vancomycin and Daptomycin are both stronger
and nastier.
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