So remember the shoes that Carrie wore on my favourite episode of Sex and the City? Well, I found out the name, it’s Sedaraby, and they are available for sale on eBay…for over $800USD!?!?!?!?! They retailed at $485USD and now they are doubled the retail price! Oh the power of television…
Today, the sun was out in the morning on my way to yoga and it was nice…when I left to go for dinner, it was raining…*Sigh* This is one thing I won’t be missing about Vancouver.
Sally and I went to The Flying Tiger in Kits. It’s been open since August and I found out about it through SweetSpot.ca and I forwarded it to Roe and Sally, and we keep saying we want to check it out and we finally did. They were busy and we got the last reservations. Next time I go though, I want to sit at the bar and watch them cook. The Flying Tiger received some pretty rave reviews from the local publications and so the expectations were slightly higher than normal. I have to say, my dinner was great. Josh, our server, was pretty chill and chatted with us throughout the night. He used to work to work at Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen Restaurant in London. Sally knew all about the show, so we had a nice little chat about that.
I ordered a cocktail called Airi-Chan, which has boysenberry tea-infused vodka, fresh lemon, lychee juice and soda. The boysenberry tea-infused vodka intrigued me so I ordered it and it was good. I would have like a little less lemon and a little more lychee though but it is a nice refreshing cocktail.
I also ordered the veggie tempura to start and it was delicious. I don’t normally like peppers or other “weird” veggies, but the way they did this, I like. I couldn’t decide on the ‘Humba Style’ Braised Pork Belly or the Grilled Kalbi Korean Ribs so I asked Josh what he would recommend. He said that the Pork Belly is more of a complete meal as it comes with rice whereas the Ribs are more like a pile of meat – Albeit a very good pile of meat. Naturally I had to go with the pile of meat so I ordered the ribs. Don’t let the ribs part fool you like it fooled me. I guess I was so used to the western style of ribs that I was expecting a rack of ribs, but this was better. It was like have 5 or 6 slices of tender steak with 3 or 4 round bones in each slice. I don’t know how they do it but boy was it delicious. The 3 different kind of kimchi that came with it were a different story. I’ve never been to a Korean restaurant and never had Korean food so I’ve never had kimchi before. Apparently it is a staple is Korean diet. Well, let’s just say that kimchi is not what I would eat if I had a choice so I gave them to Sally. I ended up ordering a side of nasi goreng rice to add some starch to the pile of protein and it was yummy. The nasi goreng was one of the best I’ve had and I’m from Singapore. Not only was it yummy, it came in a little Chinese take out box to the table. How cute is that?
With all that food, I just couldn’t finish it so I now have a very good lunch for tomorrow. Josh told us about the dessert and while the chocolate-filled deep fried bananas sounded tempting, we decided to leave it for another time and go to Dairy Queen instead.
Now I’m tired. I guess spending most of the day in front of a computer can tire you out. Tomorrow, I am planning on a little shopping, packing and going to Richmond to see my family. Packing is the #1 priority right now, so this coming week, I’m striving to do a little packing each day and be completely done by my parties on the weekend. Two weeks left, so nearly crunch time; time to put things into a higher gear.