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We are so happy to explore and try new places!  Thanks to our friend Sonny for taking us here to Lucille’s

Very American with all the memorabilia and props all over the place

Our handsome host 🙂  Sonny.  A very successful Filipino entrepreneur in the States

Apple butter

 Cute way to serve water

Heart2Heart loves sides! 🙂

Everyone is eating salad nowadays! Sonny’s order.  I noticed that our friends in the states always order salads

Not us! haha!! I ordered this to try many appetizer all in one!

In the two restaurants we ate in – they both had their own BBQ sauces which they serve and sell by the bottle

Yum!! James ordered this!! with sweet potato fries and french fries

BBQ Two Meat Combo Platter

Your choice of any two meats: BBQ tri tip, BBQ half chicken, baby back ribs, St. Louis ribs, beef ribs, spicy hot link, pulled pork, rib tips or beef brisket.  27.99

This was mine! YUM!!! 

Southern Fried Chicken

Chicken breasts dipped in buttermilk, breaded and deep-fried. Served with grandpa’s pan gravy, garlic mashed potatoes and fresh vegetables.  17.49 

Wow and we have gifts to take home from Sonny- Thanks!! T-shirts and BBQ sauce! 

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Roger and Reed took me to this Curry House – I was so happy because I have been craving for curry 🙂

And just like any japanese resto, they had the fake food in front of the place

unique! 🙂

Roger is always healthy ordering salad

Reed ordered Keema Curry rice

And for the first time I tried tonkatsu with cheese!!!  Chicken Katsu with cheese – it was okay but could be better

What an extensive menu for a Japanese restaurant!  Though very specialized – curry and spaghetti 🙂  Love the options of having additional curry sauce and the different toppings

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Thank you Roger and Heather for a wonderful dinner!!!  We drove to Orange County for around 8 hours from San Francisco and we were happy to have a nice meal 🙂

Interesting bread which was sweet and had parsley flakes on the outside 

BBQ Chicken potato skins!  First time to try this dish – YUM! 

Close up!! I could eat two of that! 🙂 but trying hard to control

Wood Ranch Tri Tip

Rib eye with smashed sweet potatoes which Heather recommended! YUM!!!  First time for me to try smashed sweet potato! James and I split this steak trying to avoid eating too much red meat – but it was really good!!!

American menus are usually so extensive you want to order everything in the menu! 🙂

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Jorge and Maita are the parents of one of Jaime’s good friends, Bettina.  It’s nice to finally meet them and get to know them. It was our turn to treat so the next evening we asked them to choose a place since they are more familiar with the area and they took us to Positano.  They were feeling bad I did not enjoy the Ramen, they did not realize I enjoyed more than them with my skewers haha 🙂  Kidding guys 🙂

Previous entry:  Ramen Parlor San Mateo March 11, 2013

San Daniele Prosciutto Crepe

Sauteed clams guazzetto

Pizza con uovo which Jorge ordered and which I loved!!  At first I thought I would not like egg on my pizza, but when I tried it – wow! Love the combination of the mushrooms, pancetta and egg with the cheese- YUM!

This was James’ order which he enjoyed on his own! haha!! 🙂 Italian Sausage pizza

Bucatini pasta with boar ragu – interesting dish ordered y Jorge – who by the way loves to cook and I assume loves to eat too 🙂  

 We shared a tiramisu 🙂 Yum!

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We arrived in San Francisco in the evening after waking up from the flight 🙂 and even after they served us a delicious breakfast, we still went out to have dinner for RAMEN!

We were in the same flight as Jorge and Maita and they invited us to join them at this place!  With our friend, Pepe 🙂

The four of them had ramen, while I enjoyed all the robatayaki Maita ordered!!!  I loved it!!

Chicken cartiledge- Maita and Jorge’s choice which they loved!

Chicken wings! YUM!

Fish cake with spicy cod roe- YUM!

Basa fish with butter sauce – YUM!!!

Tomato with thick bacon!  YUMMY AGAIN!

Deep fried calamari rings wrapped in aonori- YUMMY!!!!

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Nowadays, airlines are definitely improving their dining experience.  It’s one of the things I look forward to because before I could not stand the smell of airplane food.  Now I am waiting for the airlines to include Spa and Salon services on the plane and maybe I won’t mind airplane rides 🙂

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