Tummy Chronicles: Buddha’s Veggie Restaurant

Overall Restaurant Rating: ♥♥♥♡♡/♥♥♥♥♥

Another weekend, another food adventure. So as you may know, or may not know..I am definitely not a vegetable kind of girl, I was a bad child, and I am still bad as a semi grown up because I still hate to eat my veggies, except for a few exceptions. So I was really really curious to try out a vegetarian place to force veggies on myself, and see if they can make different types of meat dishes out of veggies and make them taste actually yummy. And to my delight when we walked in and got seated I see on the table Peking Duck! And of course we also ordered that, and to my knowledge Buddha’s Veggies use to only have one menu containing all vegetarian dishes but recently they also added a menu containing meat dishes.

 

So due to my curiosity, we ordered
Deep-Fried Drum Sticks ♥♥♡♡♡/♥♥♥♥♥ My baby said it tasted like cardboard, and I sort of agree that it taste artificial, the batter was good though. Lol
Crispy Veggie Eel with Spicy Salt ♥♡♡♡♡/♥♥♥♥♥ I think they battered and deep-fried Mushrooms for this, and added sauce or some sort of seasoning that tasted very fishy, and it was just a really odd smell and taste, a big no-no.
Ma-Po Tofu with Veggie Ham ♥♥♥♡♡/♥♥♥♥♥ This was good, I am really fond of Tofu so I can’t really complain, the Veggie Ham tasted yummy to me, I don’t know if it was because it was drenched in super rich sauce but the sauce was flavourful and went wonderfully with a bowl of steamed rice.
And one course Peking Duck ♥♥♥♡♡/♥♥♥♥♥ I was impressed with the display of folded Peking Doilies, they were presented very neatly and it makes it so much easier when they don’t stick together, the Cucumbers and Onions were sliced to slivers which was amazing, and delicious Duck, the only negative was the Peking sauce, which just was too think and tasted too much like plain Hoisin sauce.

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Confessions of My Heart: Missing

There's never a day where I don't think about you. 

because my heart only beats for you, even when yours doesn't seem to meet mine.

Penguin Plunge

Yay for Zoo days! What a wonderful day it was..we started off with picking up some Macdonald’s and oh what? A double Filet-O-Fish? Yes a double Filet! Just because Macdonald’s can, and it seriously can’t get any better than parking your car, stinking it up with Macdonald’s before hitting up the Zoo.
Penguins Penguins Penguins! A good long line up, about a fifty minute wait, sipping some hot chocolate, playing some Text Twist. Definitely well worth the wait! Even though it was only a fifteen minute duration per group but it really does feels like plenty of time when you’re in there, you can actually get pretty close to them, the glass that surrounds them hardly even passed our shoulders. Quite the experience, had a few good super lame Penguin jokes told to us which were so lame they were funny, we did manage not to get pee-ed or poo-ed on which was a plus. I would definitely line up again to see them, especially this lone Penguin I took a liking to, and he was the cutest one out of the bunch.

I haven’t been to the Zoo in ages and this was probably one of the best Zoo day ever! Since everyone was hyped up for the Penguins the rest of the Zoo was pretty cleared out, so we had a chance to spend a good four hours wandering about, creeping on the animals, and let me tell you, those animals were super active that day. We came across a tiger that paced back and forth for a good twenty minutes, a weird Ape that kept eating random things off of the ground and totally kept facing his back towards us because he definitely knew we were watching him I gotta tell ya, those Apes are something else I could sit there on that bench and watch them all day if I could, they are so smart! We bumped into two Meerkats fighting over a hardboiled egg, we were there, I kid you not a good thirty minutes at least watching them push each other around but hardly moving, claws dug deep in the dirt, poor little Meerkat didn’t even get a piece. And a lady walks by and says to her husband “aww look, the Meerkats are in love”. Bf and I stare at each other and chuckle knowing we have been watching these two stubborn Meerkats struggle with each other for thirty minutes. We also ran into a very itchy Giraffe, and that was alone mesmerizing, he almost took out a whole branch from itching himself. Oh how I have come to appreciate the Zoo so much more.



So after the Zoo, off to watch The Lorax, I couldn’t tell you much other than the fact I fell asleep for practically the whole movie. Obviously not good enough to keep my interest.

Then to Applebee’s before our Walking Dead Season 2 Finale!

Oh Applebee’s, it’s like walking into a pub with weird circus clown lights above your table, it’s a place to go nearby when we don’t have time to travel elsewhere.

What did we order?



Manfriend got the
Half Rack of Ribs ♥♥♥♡♡/♥♥♥♥♥ I am always down for Ribs, one of my favorite things..and they’re pretty good here not too sweet not too sour.
Mmm..what did I get?..I believe it was the
Bourbon Street Steak with Cajun Prawns ♥♡♡♡♡/♥♥♥♥♥this has to be one of the worst Steaks I’ve had in my lifetime, it was weird in flavour and the texture of meat was something else. Which reminds me don’t ever get the Spinach and Artichoke Dip ♥♡♡♡♡/♥♥♥♥♥ probably the worst Appetizer ever, actually ruined my appetite the first time I had it.

 

and for take home dessert for our Walking Dead Finale the
Triple Chocolate Meltdown ♥♥♥♡♡/♥♥♥♥♥ This is so good you always have to ask for an extra scoop of Ice Cream though because it is extremely sweet! That was the best part about Applebee’s. The extremely chocolaty yummy dessert!

And I must add, if you tune into the Walking Dead, the season finale absolutely left me wanting more! I can not wait till season 3. Sooo INTENSE! Got to love them zombies..

Holy #@%& !

I haven’t been able to blog for a little while because my poor little Hp had a breakdown, and for a little while we had some battery issues and last week it just powered off and stayed that way.. Thankfully I have a very knowledgeable bf that can get all my gadgets to work, because apparently not only am I extremely clumsy, technology also seems to hate me, and likes to break down in the presence of me. But that is besides the fact, the “higher power” (yes indeed you read that right, I did name my laptop) It was a birthday gift from my lovely manfriend almost two years ago, and I do cherish it a great deal, it is now up and running again after purchasing a new charger and taking the battery out.

Welcome back old friend.

♥ ohsotedious

Tummy Chronicles: Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse

Overall Restaurant Rating: ♥♥♥♡♡/♥♥♥♥♥

Another Saturday full of tummy goodness.
This was my second trip to Ruth’s, and from what I can remember from my first experience is sitting at a cosy booth along the wall listening to sizzling plates and infusing my nostrils with the intense aroma of their delightful butter. And the second time around I was just as delighted as the first time, what beats sitting next to my manfriend and whiffing up a storm? Not too much indeed.

For the “manliest of man” guys or those few butter haters, you may not like how you don’t taste that pure beefy beef taste, but for myself I quite enjoy the butter soaked beef.

So what beef did we have infused?

They start you off with yummy Cheese bread and Garlic Butter Bread ♥♥♥♡♡/♥♥♥♥♥
my meal also came with the Harvest Salad (Mixed greens with Roasted Corn, dried Cherries, crispy Bacon and Tomatoes in a White Balsamic Vinaigrette, topped with Goat Cheese and Cajun Pecans.)  ♥♥♡♡♡/♥♥♥♥♥ Not bad, minus the Goat Cheese, Goat Cheese makes everything lose a ♥.

Baby had the Ribeye ♥♥♥♡♡/♥♥♥♥♥ super juicy, cooked medium rare just right. Along with the Creamed Spinach (A Ruth’s favorite, chopped spinach in a New Orleans style cream sauce) ♥♡♡♡♡/♥♥♥♥♥ I have never had Spinach severed to me this way before, and I can tell you I am not a fan. So mushy it reminds me of baby food or better yet an oldie with no teeth. Blah.
and I had the Petite Filet and Barbecued Shrimp ♥♥♥♡♡/♥♥♥♥♥ also super juicy, I also like my meat medium rare, and it was pretty much bang on. The Shrimp were really yummy, the sauce was just right, not too creamy, and not too liquefied along with the Lyonnaise (Sautéed with Onions) ♥♥♡♡♡/♥♥♥♥♥
and even with those tummy stuffers, we had to fit dessert, the Cheesecake (Creamy homemade Cheesecake served with Fresh Berries) ♥♥♥♥♡/♥♥♥♥♥ this Cheesecake is big, like I mean big..like it could almost pass for a small individual cake. I quite enjoyed it, it was topped with Greek Yogurt I believe, which made it unique and for me complimented the richness. The boyfriend didn’t enjoy that part of it so much, so you may not be too fond of it as well, if you don’t like the taste of pure unsweetened yogurts.



Our waiter said “Absolutely” a lot, which kind of drove me a little crazy, and he forgot my Ginger Ale, I’m not usually bitter about things like this, but I just really didn’t have the fondest feelings for our server. But the restaurant over has a nice presence, big windows, dim lighting, it’s nice.

Confessions of My Heart: My ♥

“We need to teach ourselves the difference between,
a man who flatters us
and a man who complements us
a man who spends money on us
and a man who invests in us
a man who views us as property
and a man who views us properly
a man who lusts after us
and a man who loves us.”

Don’t settle, find a man who truly loves you.
My heart has always overpowered my mind, and my mind has always over analyzed my heart.