味留 sushi

{ our wine of choice for the night }

{ started off the meal with an escargot and fruits salad }

{ sashimi }

{ 咸豆花 with abalone }

{ mini lobster }

{ shark }

{ song ban pork }

{ and the standard miso soup }

{ red wine jello with passion fruit and dragon fruit dressing }

To celebrate my parents' 25th anniversary, we went to 味留 for dinner. Typical Momma Chen wanted something modest and nothing extravagant, so we chose this cozy little Japanese restaurant tucked into a small corner all the way at the end of Shi Dong Rd. Their sauces are all uniquely concocted with a perfect harmony of flavor. Yumm.

tong hua hakka cuisine

I'm half Hakka so I guess it's in my blood to find this delicious. And yes, I did. Especially the dessert. Oh my god, the dessert. Here are the dishes I remembered to snap. Everything else we kind of devoured the instant it was placed onto our Lazy Susan.

kidney pains

I'm constrained to my bed with what I think are chronic kidney pains but may very likely simply be the result of bad posture during my 45 hours a week workdays. As I lie here starting my pre-sleep routine of browsing through 9gag and THOUGHTCATALOG a couple hours early, I figured I might as well waste some time adding pointless hipster filters to the pictures I already have in my phone. Because, why the fuck not?