Sunday Dinner

Tonight we had some friends we met from NorthWest Veggie over for dinner. After dinner we watched a wonderful Japanese film, "Tampopo", a comedy about a lady who puts her heart and sweat to make her Ramen eatery successful after she took it over from her husband who passed away.

Here are the lucky diners, ready to start the meal.






Here's a picture of Bob, happy with his bowl of Phan's noodle soup. If you had a bowl of Phan's noodle soup, you'd be happy too!




For appetizer we had gluten meat wrapped in crispy fried bean curd on top of sweet tomato & jack fruit sauce.




The first entree was a miso lemongrass soup. Very flavorful. It had the wonderful aroma of lemongrass, the sweetness of Thai tom yum soup, and the richness of Japanese miso soup. Green veggies and tofu stuffed with eggplant accompanies the soup.



The second entree was fried thick rice noodles. Forgot to take a photo of this one, oops!

For dessert, we had black glutinous rice with tapioca, purple yam, and coconut milk. It was mmmmm delicious. Just the right amount of sweetness, and the texture was divine; firm but not too firm, with a certain chewiness to it. Had some more later that night.




On an update on our restaurant, we're finished with the lease negotiations for the new location and just received the lease contract from the landlord. We've sent the contract to the bank for review and if they approve the new location, we'll have our lawyer look through the contract before we sign it. In the meantime, we're also having our contractors bid on the construction work for that property so that we'll have contractors ready when it's time to start the renovation.