3 Year Anniversary

Hello folks! It's time for another update! Today's blog revolves around my 3 years anniversary with Angela! It's been such a short 3 years; I can't believe that we've been together for that long already. It seems like yesterday we had just met. But of course, such a milestone couldn't have gone uncelebrated, especially with food....so here's what we ended up doing:

Kouzan Restaurant 
I had previously taken my parents to this restaurant, and I thought that Angela would really enjoy this place. And I was correct :). It's wonderful because normally, Japanese food does not fill her up, but she seemd super content and full after our meal!

1)  Angela ordered a cocktail: the Midori Delight! It was served in a martini glass, with a slice of lemon, and had a very pretty green color, so you know it's going to be good. Angela certainly enjoyed it. I thought it was a little sweet for my liking...but hey Angela's very sweet, the drink is very sweet, it's a perfect match.

 2) This is the miso soup. This place makes very delicious miso soup. It's not super watery and has a lot of flavor. Delicious! I really feel like I should learn how to make miso soup; it's delicious, it seems simple, and I'm pretty sure it's healthy. I mean, c'mon, the soup has got seaweed!

 3) I ordered pan fried udon with chicken. Again, I find that many places drench their udon in soy sauce and the dish turns out very greasy, but Kouzan cooks it in a way that extracts the natural ingredients from the dish. I think I devoured this dish in 5 minutes; it was that good, and I was also super hungry haha. And it's healthy because look at all those pieces of broccoli...

Later on in the evening, Angela and I bought some Rose Champagne to celebrate even further. We thought we'd be able to recork the champagne and save it for a later day. Boy were we wrong; once you pop the champagne bottle, you can't recork the bottle because the cork expands to a point where it won't fit in the nose of the champagne bottle. So yeah, Angela and I finished a whole bottle of champagne together...that would be 3 glasses for each of us!

* look at that beautiful red color; I'm giving her a "rose" in a bottle. I'm very romantic


Yesterday, we decided to go to an Italian restaurant in East Village named "Supper." It's a nice, small restaurant that got very good reviews on Yelp. Unfortunately, we had a hard time navigating our way to this restaurant, because the MTA (New York's Transportation Authority) diverted our normal route. What should have been a 30 minute commute turned into an hour's commute. Oh well, the extra delay was worth the wait!

1) This restaurant has an open kitchen, and we were seated right next to it. It was great because we could see our dishes being cooked in front of us. The chef on the right in the picture was awesome; he was in charge of cooking the pasta dishes, and whenever he was cooking the pasta in its sauce, he would bob his head and carry a goofy grin as if he were listening to music. 

* I seriously can't believe that all the food comes from this kitchen; it wasn't tiny, but it didn't elicit the image of great works of art coming from that kitchen

2) My dish: Spaghetti Bolognese. This was a delicious meal. The spaghetti was cooked al dente, so I was able to finally experience exactly what "al dente" is supposed to taste like. I came to the realization that my previous attempts at cooking "al dente" was "all wrong!" There's a chewy texture to the spaghetti when it's cooked al dente; so instead of having your teeth sink right through the noodle, there's some chewing that needs to take place to break down the carb! The Bolognese sauce was fresh, tomato-ey, and ripe with basil. It's like the chef knew how I love my basil!

 3) Tagliatelle in Meat Sauce. This is what Angela ordered.  I can comment on this dish because Angela couldn't finish the dish, so she let me devour whatever was left over. I like meat ;), so the meat sauce was right up my alley. The Tagliatelle was tagliatelle: it was a flat noodle that tasted just like how it was supposed to...like carbs! And of course, all the ingredients were fresh, so I had no complaints.

4) This was the complimentary bread. There were two types of bread. I'm not sure what one of them was, but the other had a delicious garlic spread on it. Nevertheless, both breads were delicious, and both Angela and I finished them in a heartbeat! The dish also came with a complimentary dipping sauce, containing olive oil, beans, and vinaigrette. I'm not a huge fan of beans, but the beans gave the dipping sauce a nice flavor. Angela preferred eating the bread without the dipping sauce, so I was just dunking my bread all night long, no shame! 

Overall, this was a very great weekend for me; I got to celebrate a special moment in my life, and I got to eat at two very delicious restaurants. I've been very lucky to have been a part of all these wonderful experiences. Here's to many more good times to come!