Sticky Rice with Red Bean + Banana

Sticky Rice with Red Bean + Banana
Originally uploaded by Hadi Ishak

I want to hop on a plane and fly for 24 hours to eat this! Wow.











**this picture was taken in Australia by my friend Hadi.

Columbia Restaurant

This restaurant didn't pay me to promote them, but I had to say that their mojitos are the best I've ever had. Sweet, but not too sweet and just the perfect blend of mint made this drink the most refreshing (yes with sugar cane).

I'm head back to Lido Beach to pick on up and ready on the beach. I still have about two good hours of good light.

This is the life.

Pass the Diet Coke

It's 9:15am yesterday morning and I'm still sitting on the train between stops heading to work. We've been underground since 8am and I'm okay because I'm with my good friend and roommate.

Suddenly we hear a cry and a voice saying, "Oh my God" in Spanish. I look behind me and I see this lady collapsing. She probably thought we were going to die underground or something. We all felt for her but there was nothing anyone could do to help.

Then, out of the blue we hear, "pass this to her". We look and someone sends a diet coke to the crying woman. To my surprise, she quieted down like a baby. My friend and I laughed because of the diet coke being the item that calmed her down. It seemed like we were filming a commercial. It was good she got the diet coke because were still underground between stations for another twenty minutes.

I had never heard of a soft drink having this effect on someone. I'm going to try one for lunch today.

Talkin bout S'Mac

Another plug, but I had to mention this.

This isn't the healthy option, but that's okay. You can make this a once a month treat for yourself. I'm talking about S'mac. This weekend a friend was in town from Florida and we went from restaurant to restaurant. Outside of the bars one the highlights was Smac. It's fun and extreme comfort food. Surprisingly the service was good and staff friendly. I told the young man at the counter that it was my first time and what would he recommend. He immediately said the cheeseburger mac and cheese. Boy, was he right. It was filling and it was the right amount of beef to cheese, so I was in heaven. If you like macarroni and cheese, this is a must. Make you way to the East Village as soon as possible.

The pic is of what I actually ate! It was as good as it looks.

Pinkberry

I feel like today is ad day, but I have to mention the "hot" yogurt place in the city, Pinkberry. It's refreshing and fun, who can resist captain crunch and fruity pebbles in your yogurt. All I have to say is it's a must trip this summer if you're in town. My favorite location is the Chelsea one. There's normally at least a fifteen minute wait. If you're single, that's not a bad thing. ;-)

Here's to green tea!

Soy Luck Club

I gotta give a shout out to this place. It's almost better than than Grounded. Grounded is great and I love the "loungy" feel of it, but Soy Luck Club is just filled with windows and people are constantly walking by. Plus, I love this one chair that gives me back support, and allows me to relax. To top it all off there's an outlet right next to me.