My new favorite group dining experience was thrust upon me last week over the best Thai Food in the Richmond District. Quite simply, everyone piles their phones in the middle of the table at the start of dinner, face down. The first person to reach for their phone – before the check comes – buys dinner.
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Lunar New Year Party Planning 2012
The year of the Rabbit is coming to an end and the Dragon is upon us, so I should throw another party.
I generally invite 20-30 people to my tiny apartment and serve 8-10 courses over the span of the evening. This year, I would like to get out of the kitchen, so we are going to shake it up a bit, but be no less ambitious.
1. Since it is a Water Dragon year, there will be several interstitial liquid courses, and by that I mean shots. Between courses, we’ll have a palate-cleansing round of Red Dragon Shots, Golden Dragon Shots, etc.
2. All of the utensils and dishes will be compostable, because I don’t wanna do dishes.
3. Food will be prepped to the heat-and-serve level. Nothing fried, as it requires too much attention.
So far, the menu is looking like something like the following:
Braised Bunny Banh Mi
Red Dragon Welcome Shot
Dragon Roll (sushi with some combo of bbq eel, cuke, avo, tobiko and tempura)
Dragon Buns (steamed bao full of bbq gator)
Dragon Ribs (probably just my OMG ribs again, but grilled instead of pan-fried)
Potstickers
Green Dragon Shot
Noodle Bar with lots of customizing options
Golden Dragon Shot
Magic Dragon Puffs (profiteroles filled with something fun)
Orange Slice Jello Shots
Looking back at previous invites, I also realized that I must craft another absurd illustrated invitation. Hmmm… something with dragons and current events… Occupy Mordor?
Thoughts, questions or suggestions? Please comment below!
Have You Heard About HeardAbout?
I’ve recently started contributing to HeardAbout, and along with my writing and photos of some of my favorite foods in San Francisco, they will also soon be featuring some of my favorite cocktails.
From the HeardAbout website:
“HeardAbout features one delicious dish each day handpicked by our community of passionate local food bloggers, chefs, and restaurateurs. Occasionally we provide offers to try featured dishes for less – this is free to the local businesses (we take no commission or fee) and the offers are free for users to claim. Our goal is to provide authentic recommendations and to motivate locals to try the great food their city has to offer. Every so often we’ll run a sponsored feature (we do have bills to pay, after all) – but we promise these will be relevant and may even include fun offers as well!”
September 2011
Update: I’m finally posting this midway through the month, and I am doing better than usual, but I’m no saint. I’ll try to push through with this until I head to Portland at the end of October.
My plan is to spend the month of September spending as little money as possible.
This will likely lead to a lot of time at home, which I will try to spend simplifying my life, ideally:
- Getting rid of things I don’t need
- Finishing projects that remain incomplete
- Cooking and eating healthy
- Give extra attention to those who mean most…that’s a lot of people, so a few at random every month
- Digitize 30 years of notes, sketches and scraps of paper. I have a lot of scraps of paper
- Hydrate!
- Respond to concerns as they arise, immediately and in the moment
- Generally don’t procrastinate on anything
- Pick three projects, one personal, one professional and one creative and attack them like a hungry piranha
- Deep breaths while commuting… unless the train smells bad, which is often
- Do one thing at a time
- bias toward action!
- Organize, compartmentalize and itemize (label)
- Read the several months of backed up papers and magazines. Don’t renew subscriptions… except NYT
- Unsubscribe, unsubscribe, unsubscribe (I’m on a lot of email lists that I delete without reading)
- Don’t make so many damned lists
If you have any advice or words of encouragement, feel free to share, and if you feel like buying me a drink, call me in September.
Website for Sale
On a lark, I used mywebsitevalue to see what nermo.com was worth, and the estimate was $40,660.
If anyone is interested, I’ll give you a deal. I’m selling for a measly $40 grand!
I paid $20 for it, so a 203,200% increase is pretty darn good for less than 3 years.
If you are looking for an investment, I’m here to make your day.
Seriously, what kind of math is this guy using?
