My Birthday in "quarantine" - April 2020

This pretty much sums it up for me...

(Happy Birthday from Mr. Chow!)

The year 2020 really threw everyone for a loop...

Pok Pok Noi

[Retroactively dated post - written on 7/8/20, posted on 3/15/19 for our trip taken Spring 2018]

[Update - As of June 2020, The owner of Pok Pok has closed almost all of his locations due to the economic strains wrought by covid-19, see info here]

Fueled caffeine...

we headed over to the NE quadrant...

IB Thai

After checking out Cesar Solis Community Park...

and taking photos of The Wing, a local landmark (post is forthcoming)....

55 Thai Kitchen, SDSU location

Yesterday was TC's orientation...

at good ole SDSU...

Dinner at Siam Imperial + Oasis (again)

The new school year started...

and I was glad that the first week was finished, hence, a Friday night out for us two...

Aaharn by Koon Thai, National City

Last year there was a short lived Ethiopian restaurant at the base of the Harbow View towers in National City...

We never got a chance to try Kebena when it was still around.  It has since been replaced...

Thai Joint on Adams

After our drinks from City Heights Coffee House,

we made our way to Normal Heights. There is a small strip mall that was recently changed up...

EaThai Bistro revisit

I recently had lunch with a friend from the gym.

(fresh herbs grown outside EaThai Bistro)

She is half Thai and I wanted her to try my latest Thai restaurant crush....

TC has graduated and is college bound!

I still remember the day she was born...

fast forward to yesterday when TC graduated High School....

Seafood Friday 2018 - Week 1: Lunch @ Sab e Lee plus frozen stuff

After having watched "Black Panther" at AMC Fashion Valley...

Bert and I went for a late lunch over in Linda Vista...

Bangkok @12 Thai Restaurant, Sacramento

Fresh from having seen Fuller Poles and Prince mural nearby...

it was time to call it a night but first...

55 Thai Kitchen

I remembered reading about this place last year...

Sometime during Fall Break, TC and I ventured out to Golden Hill

EaThai Bistro Revisits

C's recent comment on my previous EaThai Bistro post...

prompted this visit with her not soon after...

Siam Imperial revisits

Earlier this month I had the pleasure of having lunch at Siam Imperial...

for two separate occasions...

Lunch round up - Carnival, Halphen Red, Los Pollos, Pho Convoy, Cali Baguette, the food court in Su Mercado, Sandwich Bags Deli, Gunco Ramen and Mandarin

Time to clear out the memory card before the end of the year,

featuring past lunches...

EaThai Bistro

Two Saturdays ago (and with TC), we tried a new Thai place...

recommended by my good friend Cathy who was recently there with the Mister...

Return to Siam Imperial + Oasis!

Last night's dinner was spent in IB...

to try, once more, Siam Imperial...

Soi 30th North Park Thai Eatery

I noticed this sign the day I went out with MFH a few weekends ago...

and noticed it again when TC and I were in the area for WWW...

D's Bday Crawl - Return to Mae Ting's, LAX-C, LA's Chinatown + Dinner on Convoy St. @ Hui An Garden

Funny..this post is being written on 10/22 but backdated to 8/26...

I'm trying to finish D's birthday crawl posts and this one...

Siam Imperial + new paleta flavor from Oasis

It was finally a Friday and I wanted us to try a new place recommended by a co-worker...

Down near the end of Palm Avenue in IB, where you will see variously shaped red metal sculptures along the sidewalk. This, I just found out, was part of the Imperial Beach Outdoor Surfboard Museum. Every board has a plaque with the year, the shape  and size style, plus the shaper.

The newest Thai restaurant in IB opened three months ago...

which replaced a former bike shop...