odon festival

the main asian invited me to a japanese festival in mountain view today. i ate vegetable tempura, a beef teriyaki stick and corn on the cob. i'm not sure how the corn on the cob fit into the japanese theme but it still sounded so good and it was. my favorite was the tempura of course and the batter was perfectly crispy and very tasty. i was however less impressed with the beef teriyaki which i felt lacked a true teriyaki flavor and feel since it was served as a kabob. i feel the need to say that this picture of the corn is not the ear i ate since i forgot to snap a shot. i ended up zooming in on a little girl near me who was also eating corn and i stole the picture. after eating we sat down for a few rounds of bingo. the games were only 50 cents a board or 3 boards for a dollar so naturally we played 3 boards per game. after a few games i ended up scoring bingo and won a 4GB USB. all the other prizes were things i already have and didn't want to pack so the USB was an easy choice to make. i'm not sure how long we were playing before i won but it wasn't very long and the poor main asian was less than thrilled so we continued to play so she could try her luck. sadly she didn't win but she still had fun playing.


for dinner we ended up at a thai restaurant near my new place called thai garden. i was so excited to try it since it's so close to where i'm moving but i'm sad to report the food was ok at best. even thought i ate the green curry i wasn't very flavorful and was more like soup. the other dish we ordered was a fried pork which was in my opinion better than the curry but still didn't impress me much. believe me this picture looks better than the food actually tasted, that's because i'm such an amazing photographer.. hahaha!