Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
I’ve been doing job interviews for a server position at gr/eats, and the weirdest thing about it, is how many no shows there are. We set up an appointment, date and time, and poof, no one shows. No phone call to follow up or anything. I wonder if this is common in food service-land. Are people that flakey? Don’t these people need jobs or something? I know there’s great people out there too, but having 2 out of 5 flake out seems to be bad odds. I was talking to Don, the fella who owns Satsuma imports, and he goes on about how bad the younger employee/work force is today and how it’s getting worse and worse. Is this real?
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Last bit on the New Years Day Things turn into gambling. This is when I make my exit. Card games can go late into the night. Everyone thinks they’re Johnny Chan. Sunglasses and visors start coming out. Jolly smiles turn into game faces. Isn’t it weird how the poker chips in the foreground look like sushi rolls? I suppose after eating, and watching a bowl game or two, what’s left? Scrabble isn’t really favored, and Asians dig gambling. Family, that includes dogs. That’s Hanako, our old Shiba in the background right. She’s a nice dog, getting up there in age, but is a family pet. Even on holidays, the dogs act like it’s just a regular day but get more attention. Mochi, baked, slightly crispy, yet gooey is the special snack later in the night. You see the regular packs of mochi at some markets but you have no idea what to do with them. Here’s something really simple. But it in your oven. High heat for a few minutes. They’ll start to bubble and deform, and when they’re soft all the way through you know they’re ready. Two tastes, kinako on the top, it’s soybean powder and sugar. The bottom is soy sauce and sugar. I prefer the latter along with some seaweed. Family member dog #2, that’s Musashi showing some leaps after he chases a ball over the fence. See the ball in his mouth?
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Happy New Year! In a lot of Japanese culture, it’s not about Christmas. It’s about the New Year. It’s January 1st. We’re not Christian, so it’s a secular day, but New Years is for anyone. A day for family. Ok food time… Food is a big deal, and this is typical greatness. My mom cooks well, and some of the guests bring their own concoctions. Amazing display, and I can’t imagine how this can go on. We’re all lazier, busier, and less of us learn or take the time to cook. So with that, the efforts of family get recognition. I’m sure your family has special occasions when they bring out their best. For me, it’s New Years Day. Chicken? Holy smokes, these were great. No ranch dressing needed. This is lotus root with miso, lightly breaded and fried. Tasty. Futomaki – the typical, but a standard. It’s like white on rice. Thin layer of beef covering gobo (burdock root) and green beans. Fish cake, egg, and seaweed. Good with rice and it makes people smile. Chirashi – a standard. Veggies and some fishcake also a standard. sashimi and some vegetables – a must have. The tuna was especially good. Whoa, mango and sticky rice. How did that get in there? My cousin and his wife owns BaiYook in San Diego. It’s a great Thai restaurant in the Hillcrest area. This is a great way to end it all. There were plenty of other dishes, soup with mochi (ozoni), black beans (sweet), tempura, crab cake, sunomono, and honestly so much more that didn’t fit on the table. Aside from the big meal, the day begins and ends with the Buddhist altar. It’ll be there tomorrow, it was there yesterday, and it’ll be there long after I’m around, and it was there long before I was here. See the pics on the left? The small one right neat the orange is my aunt, the cut off photo above her is my grandfather, there’s one cut off on the left and that would be my grandmother. See inside the altar? There’s an Almond Joy sitting on a little pedestal. My aunt liked to eat those and that’s why it’s in there. Jon’s be the culprit who’d put an Almond Joy in there for his mom.
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Crotch shot. These are the City of Darkness PJs… From GOD Goods of Desire in Hong Kong, you can wear the long gone building. I look like this when I sleep
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My parent’s house to yours. This is just a couple of pictures of osechi. That’s what the big New Years meal is called. More food porn later. My mom cooks as good as it can get. Probably like many of yours. These are eggrolls. I guess finger foods are easy for bigger groups. It’s interesting what you can put into an egg roll, it’s like leftovers chopped finely. It’s weird, but sort of cool. Eggrolls are greatly underrated.
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