{"id":966,"date":"2013-08-03T22:23:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T04:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=966"},"modified":"2013-08-03T22:24:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T04:24:24","slug":"serendipitous-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=966","title":{"rendered":"Serendipitous Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

My daughter and I went to check out a restaurant supply store this afternoon. Unfortunately, it doesn’t sell to the public; you have to have a business license to shop there.<\/p>\n

So, we went to the IKEA store that’s not far from it. Neither of us had been to it before, and it was interesting wandering through it. Well, I say wandering, but they’ve arranged things so that there’s a preferred path through the store that everyone more or less follows. Still, it was interesting, an I saw a few things I may go back for.<\/p>\n

Afterward, we decided to have an early dinner, and we made a spur-of-the-moment decision to try out a place we were passing by, the Street Kitchen Asian Bistro<\/a>. I decided to try the okonomiyaki appetizer, because I’ve read about it for years, but never run across any place that offered it before. It wasn’t quite what I was expecting, based on what I’d read about it, but it was very good.<\/p>\n

For the main course, I had the roasted pork belly stuffed with chinese chives, with steamed baby bok choi and brown rice side dishes, which was fabulous. Cheryl had the Char Kuey Teow – pan-fried flat rice noodles with pork, lap cheong sausage, bean sprouts, eggs, and garlic chives. It was pretty good, but I didn’t think it could match mine.<\/p>\n

The only place I felt they fell short was the iced tea, which was instant instead of brewed. Still, I’d go back there anytime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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