Kings of the Road

Yesterday we went to Joe’s Noodle House in Rockville for a late lunch. I’ve been wanting to go here ever since I read about it on the Washingtonian’s Top 100 Restaurant list last January, where they described it as authentic Szechuan food in a chaotic setting.
The interior walls are a pepto pink color, what I’d [...]

Seen on the way to work:
The car in front of me had a low-hanging muffler. Pulling into the parking garage, it took the first speed bump slowly. But that muffler was like a loose tooth that just needed a little more wiggling and jiggling. It scraped the speed bump and fell right off. The car [...]

(not counting ones in Italy)
On a whim, I stopped at Cornucopia, an Italian specialty market around the corner from my apartment building. I read in the Washingtonian that Cornucopia has great panini, and a sandwich sounded like the perfect dinner.
I ordered a Prosciutto di Parma sandwich, made on a crusty mini-baguette with provolone, olive oil, [...]

The seriously awesome people at Serious Eats had an ice cream trivia contest to promote the new Häagen-Dazs Reserve line of ice cream flavors. The contest was simple—the first ten people to respond with the correct answers to the five trivia questions would receive their very own Häagen-Dazs Reserve line ice cream. Check out these [...]

I went to lunch with some of my coworkers to Golden King Restaurant, a nondescript Chinese restaurant in a strip mall in Sterling, Virginia and a short drive from my office in Reston. This was my second time there—my coworker Queenie introduced me to it a couple of months ago, and I’ve been begging her [...]

My parents came to visit us for Spring Break, instead of going to Panama City Beach or South Padre Island and doing beer bongs and dancing all night at Foam Parties. When they come to visit, it’s like we’re on vacation too—lots of fun, tons of laughing and no work.
They’ve visited many times, and they’ve [...]

Today we walked to “New Bethesda” in search of bread and some lunch. We planned on getting a freshly baked loaf of bread from Spring Hill Bread Company but found out when we got there that they are closed on Sundays. Because really, who wants fresh bread on Sundays?
We planned on going to Green Papaya, [...]

Yesterday we went to the early show of Zodiac at the Bethesda Row Cinema. I had been looking forward to this movie for a long time. I hadn’t read any of the reviews before seeing the movie, so as not to be influenced by anyone’s opinion. All I knew was that it is based [...]