Habanero Pizza

Every August Flying Pie offers the Habanero Pizza. Sylvia could only manage a couple bites while I managed to down several pieces. It did take lots of water though and I felt like I had been repeatedly punched in the gut afterwards. Luckily the fiery sensation burned itself out before the grand exit.

Sun Valley 1/2 marathon

Everything about the event was great except for the run itself. The higher elevation and hills kicked my ass and my time was a minute per mile slower than my time in Seoul, though this wasn't unexpected. At least I was still under 2 hours.

The race started and finished right in the backyard of where we were staying, so that was convenient. It had rained heavily the night before so I was afraid of getting drenched but we had really nice weather the day of the race.

Little did Sylvia realize that she was about to get felt up by the big flamingo in pink cowboy boots shortly after this picture was taken.

Goldy's in Boise

How did I not know about this place? It was voted by Bon Apetite Magazine as one of the country's top 10 breakfast restaurants. Even though they don't take reservations and you are pretty much guaranteed a lengthy wait, it's well worth it once you get in.

I remember when I first tasted hollandaise sauce and fell in love with it. It seems that lately I've been like a junky chasing a high, anything with hollandaise that I've had has been OK, but not anything like that first time. Goldy's finally helped me find what I was looking for, the sauce was decadent.

Sylvia's spinach florentine was also great. On a recommendation from a friend I tried the stuffed french toast. It was good but a little too sweet for my tastes.

The Last Dinner (of the trip)

The kind of pizza looking stuff is called pajeon, and in this case it is actually haemul (seafood) pajeon. Kimchi pajeon tastes good as well, and Sylvia makes it for me once in a while.

I don't know exactly how to explain what pajeon is. It is sometimes called a "Korean pancake", but that isn't really in the ballpark. The ingredients are put in a batter and then cooked, but that is about the only resemblance.

Unfortunately, the paejon at this particular restaurant that I've been to several times before seemed oilier than in the past. I probably won't be going back when I visit Seoul again.

The thinks on the wooden skewers are spicy chicken skin. Imagine the best part of friend chicken (the skin), minus all the other junk. I think that these are baked or broiled rather than fried, but they taste great. I will have to remember to look for a Tudari (chain restaurant name) the next time that I'm in Seoul.

Blatant Lie

Here are two of Jon's favorite places in Seoul. I forgot which place he told me that he got a footlong weenie from though...

Sylvia's siblings

In the first picture we have Sylvia's brother along with her younger sister and her husband. In the other two pictures are Sylvia's two older sisters and their husbands.

The Little Loogie

You can't say I didn't think about work while I was on vacation. While waiting to meet Tina (next post) near a busy subway exit, I saw someone hawk this rather nasty loogie on the ground.

My first three thoughts were: 1) Eww, nasty! 2) Now it is contaminated and we couldn't use it for any kind of testing. 3) Too bad we can't use it, it would have been a great specimen and would have made an excellent gram stain.

Rather curiously no one stepped on this for about 20 seconds, but then back to back people stepped in it and it was gone. But it's OK, I have this picture and it's story to retain in our memories.