Sunday Notes
Apparantly we are in the rainy season here in Shangra La so i wanted to point out a few things from the past 48 hours.
1) Aladdin's Restaurant is great...especially for a chain. I prefer my ethnic food served by indigenous people, but the Middle Eastern fare was awesome. If you are ever in DC, there is a Middle Eataern place up near the zoo. Last time I was there I ate at the bar with a friend and we threw ourselved onto the mercy of owner who brought us plate after plate of delicious food, including wine he insists was from grapes from the former Shaw Of Iran's personal vineyard.
2) I am amazed at the number of names for seemingly the same articles of women's clothing. i.e...I have shorts, but the wife just bought a new pair of "walking" shorts which seem to have no relations to walking but actually denoted their length, I am as lost in this linguisitc nightmare as she is familiar. I think there are no less then 10,000 terms for sleave length alone.
3) Nothing gets kids out of the house faster on a Sunday morning then one one runs into the kitchen and yells to his brother "I just caught a toad, get a container!" This causes a race to the kitchen between brother # 2 and mom...with brother # 2 already planning to poke holes in more tupperware lids while mom is trying to stop yet another item of plastic ware from being turned into a habitat.
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Have you ever eaten at Abay? Really good Ethiopian Food and BYOB with a small cork fee - a fun place to take a group of people...
May I call you that? Where is it at and is it sit down on the floor style eating?
It is in in the area they now call East Side - I still call it East Liberty / Shadyside border. Close to the Whole Foods. You can sit on low chairs at a rotating table or at a regular table - it is meant to be 'communal" eating. It's worht a try.
That Aladdin's sucks big time the food is horrible I tried it once and refuse to go back. Then again maybe it's cause of the culture of food just isn't. I will stick with my Itaian and Chinese food.
HF, I agree 100% on the concept of requiring that my food be served by indigenous people. The other day I was in a Chinese restaurant and they sent a white waitress to my table. I told her to send someone Asian over, or I was out the door. I have done the same thing in Italian restaurants whenever they send an Asian or African-American waitress to the table.
I am explicitly paying for that "indigenous" experience, so bring it on, or discount my meal, dammit!
Fun blog for a lazy Sunday, (in my house anyway)
1) I haven't eaten at Aladdin, but heard it is really good. Will have to try it.
2) Regarding womens' clothes names, you are so correct.
Pants...trousers, capris, crops, wide legs, skinnys, sweats (eww only for cleaning), jeans, denims, dungarees (any of you old timers remember that?)
Shorts...bermudas, walking (dress 'em up with a pair of heels), hot pants, short shorts, skorts
Sleeves...(you crack me up), tank, sleeveless, cami, short sleeve, 3/4 sleeve, long sleeve, spathetti strap, halter
Omg it goes on and on...
3) Hilarious about the toad. My son, prob at age 8, brought home a tiny toad without me knowing, he must have put it in his pocket, then brought it to his room and put it in a shoe box. The next morning he brings me the shoe box and says 'look inside'. I opened the box and there was this poor dead toad, sitting in a toad position but stiff as a board. Boys will be boys! I so agree with your bride on the disappearing tupperware, I always seem to have all bottoms and no matching tops. haha!
~* chanel *~