Food and drink from home and on the road: Las Vegas buffets, seafood, French Quarter classics, London pubs, tiki bars and plenty of everyday meals.
Fish and chips from Ivar’s, the Seattle seafood institution founded by Ivar Haglund in 1938.
Ivar’s is known for its fish and chips, clam chowder and clam strips, served everywhere from its waterfront restaurant, Ivar’s Acres of Clams on Pier 54, to fish bars around the region. The photos show the meal, including fish, chips and fried clams.
Eating fish and chips while feeding the seagulls on the waterfront is a classic Seattle experience.
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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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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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Missing the best lobster roll I ever had, from September 29, 2017.
A great lobster roll keeps it simple: big chunks of lobster meat, lightly dressed and piled into a buttered, toasted bun. The photo shows the roll with fries on the side.
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After I read about the return of Chocodiles on Dinosaur Dracula, I became determined to find them. Now I live in Canada, and they most definitely do not sell Chocodiles in Canada, so every time I went on a quest for the Chocodiles I had to drive an hour to Bellingham, WA.
I made 3 trips and checked many, many grocery stores trying to find the elusive Chocodile. I’m not kidding in saying I checked 9 different stores in one trip without success.
Finally, Friday August 22nd (my first search with my awesome new wife for a good luck charm) I found the so elusive Chocodile:
It has been a while since my last post, but I can’t let a holiday season go by without writing about some random crap.
How about Snickerdoodle milk?
Yes, it is a real thing. Sold at Target.
I didn’t remember to grab a picture of what it actually looked like, but the packaging is a good representation. It is basically a little lighter colored than chocolate milk. I was somewhat apprehensive about the taste, but was pleasantly surprised. Basically cinnamony sweet tasting milk, like eggnog with a whole lot more cinnamon.
The sweetness was too much for me though, I only drank half a glass.
More important than Snickerdoodle milk, this year I managed to again find Christmas Crunch cereal!
It had been a while since I’ve had Christmas Crunch. I was unsuccessful in my crunch quest in 2012 and 2011. My last successes were in 2010 and 2009.
Actually I found this year’s Christmas Crunch back in November just before US Thanksgiving. That seems to be the sweet time to find it, last year I checked at least a dozen grocery stores along the I-5 corridor during the first week of December, but I think that it was too late.
Christmas Crunch is essentially just a holiday-ified version of Captain Crunch Crunchberries edition, but that holiday-ification makes all the difference to me. There’s something about Christmas versions of food products that just call out to me.
If you look closely in the Christmas Crunch photos you can make out the caboose of my new train. I’ve always wanted a model train to run around my tree and this year is the year I actually got one. Of course it took over a month, two locomotives, trips to the local train store, and a lot of patience, but eventually had a running train going around my tree.
In case you haven’t heard, Hostess Snack cakes are back! At least sort of…
So far I have seen Twinkies, Cupcakes (the chocolate variety), Mini-Muffins (chocolate chip and blueberry), and Donettes (powdered sugar and chocolate). No Zingers, Ding-Dongs, Ho-Hos, or Coffee Cakes. And most disappointingly, no Apple Cinnamon or Crunch varieties of Donettes. The official Hostess products page lists a number of other items I have yet to see as well.
All I really want to see are the individual packs of Crunch Donettes. After the initial demise of Hostess I tried a number of imitations of Crunch Donettes, such as Little Debbie and Mrs Freshleys, but they did not taste anything like Hostess.