Lunch at Lowell’s in Seattle’s Pike Place Market.
Lowell’s is one of the market’s longest-running restaurants, with three floors of seating and big windows looking out over Elliott Bay and the ferries. The menu covers breakfast, seafood and Northwest comfort food. The photos show the meal.
Grabbing a window table on one of the upper floors gives one of the best views in the market.
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Dumplings at Din Tai Fung on New Year’s Day 2022.
Din Tai Fung, which started in Taiwan, is famous worldwide for its xiao long bao, delicate soup dumplings folded with at least 18 pleats, and you can watch the dumplings being made through the kitchen windows. The photos show dumplings and sautéed greens from the meal.
The Seattle area has several Din Tai Fung locations, and they’re popular, so expect a wait at peak times.
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The Alaskan seafood feast at the Crab Pot on Seattle’s waterfront.
The Crab Pot is known for its seafood feasts, where a steaming pile of crab, shellfish, sausage, corn and potatoes is poured straight onto your paper-covered table and you dig in with mallets and bibs. The photo shows the feast from this visit.
It’s a fun, messy meal and a good one for groups. The restaurant is on Pier 57, next to the Seattle Great Wheel.
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Oga’s Cantina in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, during a September 2021 trip to Walt Disney World.
Oga’s is the cantina of Black Spire Outpost on the planet Batuu, serving colourful Star Wars-themed drinks while DJ R-3X plays music overhead. The photos show the drinks from this visit and the cantina’s interior.
Reservations through the My Disney Experience app are highly recommended.
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Dinner at The Cowfish Sushi Burger Bar at Universal CityWalk in Orlando.
The Cowfish combines two menus in one, serving both sushi and gourmet burgers, along with “burgushi”, its own mash-ups of the two. The photos show some of the sushi rolls from this meal.
CityWalk is free to enter and sits right between Universal Studios Florida and Islands of Adventure, so it’s an easy dinner stop after a day in the parks.
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Loews Royal Pacific Resort at Universal Orlando, a South Pacific-themed hotel set among lush tropical landscaping.
Royal Pacific is one of Universal’s premier hotels, and guests get Universal Express Unlimited ride access, early park admission, and a short walk or water-taxi ride to the parks. The photos show the view over the resort’s lagoon-style pool and gardens.
The resort is also home to the Wantilan Luau, a Polynesian dinner show held on select nights.
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Lobster and crab in September 2021.
The photos show a plate of lobster and crab legs with melted butter, a simple and classic way to enjoy shellfish.
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So I saw The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift in a movie theatre shortly after it came out in 2006. I was not a big fan of the series at the time, I know I had seen the first one but not the second. Everyone had been talking about how good a movie it was and I wanted to check it out.
Honestly I came out thinking the movie was fairly entertaining but I was really confused about some of the things that happened to Sean after he first arrived in Japan. It seemed really weird how he became friends with Bow Wow at the race. I didn’t think much of it afterwards as I wasn’t expecting an Oscar calibre screenplay or deep character development.
It wasn’t until years and years later I finally watched the movie again after really enjoying some of the later films in the franchise. It was only then I realized the theatre where I originally watched the movie had the REELS OUT OF ORDER!
The version I watched had Sean race in the parking garage prior to going to school for the first time. This was in a mostly full theatre. As far as I could tell this shuffle of reels did not raise any alarms among the rest of the audience. I sometimes wonder when (and if) the other audience members from that day realized what happened?
Niagara Falls in November 2019.
Niagara Falls straddles the border between Ontario, Canada, and New York State and is made up of three falls: Horseshoe Falls, American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls. Together they move an enormous volume of water every second, and the mist and roar are unforgettable up close.
The falls are lit up in colour every night, which makes an evening visit worth planning for.
Shake Shack at New York-New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, in October 2019.
Shake Shack started as a hot dog cart in New York City’s Madison Square Park and is now known worldwide for its ShackBurgers, crinkle-cut fries and frozen custard shakes. The photo shows a tray of burgers and fries.
The Las Vegas location is on the Strip outside New York-New York, next to the Park MGM and T-Mobile Arena area.
