food

smoker pibil and barbacoa

Eric Jahn — 2011-01-08T18:04:32Z

food network annato

Eric Jahn — 2011-01-08T17:55:00Z

food network pibil

Eric Jahn — 2011-01-08T17:55:00Z

recipes

Eric Jahn — 2010-12-27T00:32:34Z

Malmo Cheese Market

Eric Jahn — 2008-11-13T03:07:34Z

The scent here was very strong!

Korean restaurant in Wroclaw, Poland

Eric Jahn — 2008-11-13T03:06:45Z

This restaurant mainly caters to the Korean workers at the new LG plant in Wroclaw, a regional financial center near Krakow, the arts center. Sonia chatted it up with the owner in Hangul.

Fancy Sushi

Eric Jahn — 2008-01-01T15:11:17Z

It looked so pretty, I felt bad destroying it by eating it. But I quickly got over it...

5-9-2009 Desert Rose and Spice Garden

Eric Jahn — 2009-05-09T04:10:47Z

: Spice Garden

Here's a pic of my little spice garden project. That's an Australian origin bottle brush tree with African irises surrounding it in the cutout. Click on the thumbnail above to see a blowup of the desert rose. I had it under a tree and there were few flowers. Once we moved it into broad daylight (not a bad idea since it's from sub-Saharan Africa), it made some serious floral inroads.

4-20-2009 Amaryllis and Trees

Eric Jahn — 2009-05-01T02:45:00Z

Despite the title, this isn't a topical blog post. In fact, I really don't give a damn about the psuedo-amaryllis. Been dabbling in baking things. Also growing things. The oval tiled concrete planter is almost finished and I'm trying to find a yellow flowering tree to plant in it. I was first thinking about a Palo Verde (Green version?, well, the shorter one I think). Then the guy at Twigs and Leaves in St. Pete suggested to me it might be deciduous, so bald in the winter. I'll have to check on that. It's also not native Floridian. It's pretty common in Arizona, he told me. But it is quite drought tolerant, which is an important factor for me. I also looked at the beautiful tababuia, but it's too tropical (from Brazil), and I think it would die if young and during a good freeze. They grow fine around here, but I don't want 30 year frost damage. So he suggested sweet acacia. I'll probably go that route, since it's native to Floriduh. But, being an acacia, it will look like my jacaranda leaf-shape-wise, and that's a minus. Leaves to me are like pasta, and the diverse shapes alone keep me steeped in laffity-clappity bemusement.

7-10-2008 Halong Bay

Eric Jahn — 2008-07-11T04:10:00Z

Halong Bay

5944 34th St N Saint Petersburg FL
727.522.9988

View Map with Street View (under construction when photo was taken)

Unlike all other Vietnamese restaurants in this area, Halong Bay actually has a stylish atmosphere with green shaded halogen track lighting highlighting large images of Halong Bay. The place was very busy, almost cafeteria-like, apparently frequented mostly by the local Vietnamese population. Being open for only a week at this point, the staff, albeit friendly and eager to help, were mostly useless. Speaking Vietnamese would likely have helped my cause when ordering. We came for the dim sum menu, but the menu is otherwise Vietnamese.

Yes, I am an antipodigastrotarian.

The dim sum was not very diverse. Generally, there were fried items filled with shrimp or pork, and steamed items filled with shrimp or pork. The steamed items were very good, the fried items were boring. There was one vegetable dish on the dim sum menu: chinese broccoli, which was very large and hard to eat without a cutting instrument and just some chopsticks. The manager jokingly encouraged me to try the chicken feet, but since this review is voluntary, I fell back upon my "no feet nor tripe" personal policy. Yes, I am an antipodigastrotarian.

We also ordered a Vietnamese basil chicken dish, which was excellent and massive in proportions, so most of it went into a to-go box. Jalapeno peppers and lots of garlic made it interesting.

Prices were reasonable, and on the cheap side for dim sum. I'll go back. Hopefully next time there will be fish in the aquarium.