5th Street Bar & Wood Fired Grill

Chipotle garlic rubbed pork loin chop $15.00

I wanted to go this pub for a long time but I didn't pick here just because... but I am really grad to be here this time.

Because of the location, I thought they are not very busy restaurant but once I opened the door I notice I was wrong.
It was different world! Full of young to old people, so busy, lively, smells so good!

Of course we had to wait to be seated. While we were waiting, we had beer at their bar counter. (That was the only seat we could stay.)

Mushroom cheese cake $5.00

I wish I could take their kitchen pictures. I just loved their opened wide kitchen. Running fired meats??

Fire-grilled buffalo burger (with Caesar) $10.00


Their foods are so cheap, I don't know how they can keep their food quality. Taste, presentation, quantity, everything is so good.
Gochisousamadeshita!
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Japanese Izakaya Wann in Seattle

American Kobe beef Tataki $8.25
(Japanese people hate to call fake Kobe beef as Kobe beef. It's totally different.)

Sorry for taking break to post Victoria restaurants for a month.

In Victoria, I don't know any good Japanese restaurant. If you are Japanese, your cooking is way better than Japanese restaurant in Victoria.

Oh I shouldn't say that, I have a few restaurants I haven't try yet.
Chikara sushi, in the strip mall, I heard so many people saying they make the best sushi in town.


We went to Wann Izakaya in Seattle at their happy hour. You get $2 beer (ジョッキで), some dishes are just $4.

Cheese Tsukune $7.25


Crunchy Garlic Rock Shrimp $7.75


Tatsutaage $4.00

Jidori Kamameshi $9.00


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some buns...

Sorry, I haven't been to any restaurans, just baking.
I know it is boring.

Anyway,


Wednesday is gonna be my baking day. Also! golfing day...

"Saint Germain Tendresse", the bakery in Nagoya, I got a really really good brioche from this bakery.
They put custard and chocolate chips between the brioche dough.

I couldn't forget that... and I made it. It doesn't taste even close! I will try with defferent brioche dough.



This Wednesday, I got a friend came over to bake with.
It was the first time to bake buns for her but she did really good and I guess she liked it.

We made some cinnamon rolls and Japanese sweet bean paste buns.
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Hamburger buns, Gratin buns


Today was baking day.
I had some hamburger left overs from last night dinner and I made prawn gratin for my husband's lunch.
Sometime when I have dinner left overs, I use them for buns.

Here is direction how to shape left over buns.

Spread the dough and use cookie cutter just like the picture.



And you put anything you want to put inside on to the circle part of dough.



The other part, you spread and make long ring and twist it and make it double.









Now, just surround the left over.
Don't worry if the bottom part and the ring part doesn't touch each other, it will stick when it grow anyway.


This time, I put ketchup and cheese on the top of hamburger.




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Canoe Brewpub

I wish I had one of the keg.

I feel like I hired models to take that picture... They look good.

For my partner's birthday, we went to this pub.
It has nice harbour view, and totally nice and big inside.


As usual, I ordered a humburger. I don't know when I started to have humburger all the time. I used to not. Very tasty one.
And my husband, he ardered something different this time.


I tried to try, but I was full so I don't know but he really liked it.
I still like butter chicken from Sanuk (which already closed restaurant),
but you know, I am Japanese.
I don't know real Indian taste yet. I have to try real Indian butter chicken one day.

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Ridge 9 holes Golf course

This month, we've been to many 9 holes golf courses.
Ridge is one of our favorite small and cheap per3 course. I cannot count how many times we went to.
This is the view from 6th hole.

Lately, my score is getting worth and worth and worth and..... sigh
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breakfast @floyd's diner



I got a friend visitting from Vancouver but I had to work and didn't have time to hung out with her.
All I could do was going to breakfast before work.

I heard some good stuff about this restaurant so we tried.

First impression was it is way bigger than how it looks from outside.
and after that with no moment, I found this place is really funky.


For the breakfast, you can also have lunch menu.
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