Thursday, September 23
On Tuesday, we celebrated my birthday!
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| Waiting for a cheeseburger...so patiently... |
We both had to teach, and I didn’t feel like planning a whole thing (plus, there’s not much going on anyway), so we had a pretty relaxing day that mostly involved eating my favorite things and answering sweet birthday wishes from friends & family.
I wanted to have sushi for lunch, but my two top choices were either not delivering for lunch or else not delivering on Tuesdays at all so, instead of having mediocre-looking or super-expensive sushi, I decided to have papaya salad, which is one of my favorite things to eat anyway.
Roman went down to the cart on our street, and ordered us a papaya salad, sticky rice, and a piece of grilled chicken. It came with some raw cabbage and green herbs.
And the green herbs came with a cute little caterpillar!
Man, I love papaya salad.
In the afternoon, we taught our classes, and Roman ordered my birthday cake slices! I did a lot of research into a lot of bakeries for Second Cake Day, and finally decided on the lovely-looking cakes from a place in Chinatown called Wallflowers Café:
We ordered a slice of red velvet and a slice of NY cheesecake. More on that later...
After I finished my classes, we went out and got massages, and then walked to a burger place in Soi 11, where we sat on an outside patio with groovy red lighting and had delicious cheeseburgers and fries.
Back at home, I opened presents from Roman and my mom, and laid it all out on my bed to admire it!
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| Posing with my new teapot |
I felt very spoiled.
And we ate cake!
It was pretty good cake. And it was a pretty nice, chill day.
AND, here are a few more things we ate this week...crispy pork with wing beans and ginkgo nuts:
Mushrooms with ginkgo nuts and crispy pork:
Bao buns with braised pork (which we had delivered, and ate with kim chi):
Chicken soup and shu mai at Pier 21:
And noodles with wontons and red pork from an outdoor cart pod near the American Embassy:
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