Kingyo: Prawns with Eyeballs Intact

Today, we went for a long walk from Davie to Robson and looked at home furnishings in warm stores.  Outside was freakin' cold but beautiful.  (Typical combination.)

We looked through cookbooks and decided we were hungry for fish, so we made a perpendicular bee-line for Kingyo.  It was nice and almost empty at 2:30pm on a Sunday (likely since they take the last order for lunch at 3pm).  So.  We sat down (at a table). I salivated in anticipation of rewarding my tastebuds with some deep-fried seafood.  Read over the menu -- no tempura!  I wanted the prawn tempura but they didn't have it for lunch--gasp--so.... I ordered whatever else was on the appetizer menu with the word prawn in it.

Prawn sashimi is rather gooey in one's mouth.  Which is fine, except when that one's mouth is mine.  I ate a couple when the prawns weren't looking at me.  Swann was the hero and finished off my plate.  I think she secretly liked it.

Also: ahi-tuna appetizer (the appetizer Swann ordered but I ate) and two pieces of (delicious) fish with an assortment of sides.  We couldn't figure out how to eat the fish that wasn't salmon, but we persevered and I think it ended successfully as a WIN for us.

Stir-fry and Carthage Cafe.

I was going out to dinner tonight at Carthage Cafe, but by 3pm my hunger drove me to throw together another stir-fry: mushrooms, broccoli and kale, then avocado.  MMMMMM.  I felt perky and alert and happy on my walk to the sky train.  

2 hours later, I ate too much: snapper and salmon with rice and veggies, chocolate ganache cake and Moroccan Tea.  This was all wonderful, but nothing compares to the simple satisfaction provided on all levels by my humble stir-fry.

Stir-fry with an egg.

This morning, I:

• Woke up, got my assignment for next week
• Went for a walk in the sun while talking to my Grandma
• Did some errands
• Made this stir-fry and omelette thing
• Made tea, with no milk/sugar
• GOT PUMPED and now doing workage.

The ingredients in my stir-fry: oil, then red onion and mushrooms, then some broccoli and bok choy.  One scrambled egg on the side.  I was still hungry after eating this entire portion, so instead of making something else that would have been too much, I made some tea -- and it filled me!  I'm learning these things.