Hey Everyone,

Wow...it's been a while. Where do I begin. I haven't blogged in so long. I really wanted to tell you guys about my dining experience at Saints Alp Teahouse in williamsburg. This place has a very cute atmosphere and is very cheap. Not the greatest food in the world if your a food snob, but if your in the mood for appetizers and a bubble tea, this place is right up your alley. I was with two of my friends, Juan and Mayra and for the three of us I think our bill came out to around 40 bucks and we all had 2 appetizers and a drink.
So lets talk about this bubble tea business for those of you who don't know. Bubble tea can come hot or cold and the bubbles are giant tapioca pearls (hence, the bubbles). I definitely prefer it cold. The give you a giant straw which enables you to get a bubble with each sip...its chewy and so interesting. But if you are a texture-phobe than you probably wouldn't be down with it. My friend Juan got a hot tea with bubbles. I got my coconut black milk tea (love it). The last time I got a butterscotch one an it was terrible. Being the creature of habit I am, I'll probably stick with that coconut milk tea every time I go there. My friend Mayra got  matcha sorbee which is kind of like a smoothie with what looked like red bean paste floating on top. She liked it,(her second time ordering it). I don't remember what tea Juan got, but he didn't complain so he probably liked it.
On to the food. I had fried calamari. It was a nice small appetizer portion for one person. perfect size for $3.50 it was cooked perfectly and it had this spicy powder on top that was good but it made me cough a little..lol...(it came with sweet Chile sauce..yummy.  Then I got vermicelli rice noodle with curry vegetables. That was a bit disappointing. The flavor of the sauce was good. The problem was that the only vegetables in the dish were potatoes and carrots, and two lonely little baby bokchoy off to the side that seemed to be more of  steamed garnish that anything else The next problem with the dish was that the sauce rested on top of this huge pile of noodles. Vermicelli noodles are particularly skinny and very very long. After I took one bite...my sauce got lost and all of the noodles on the bottom were naked. so it seemed very boring after 3 minutes. I told my friends to remind me next time to order something else.
My friends were happy with their food. They got spicy fried chicken chunks. I think the spice came from the same powder that was on my calamari. and Ramen with spicy minced pork. I'm a non-meat eater so I cant say first hand how those dishes were, but to be honest I think if you throw anything spicy in front of my friends they will love it. They throw sriracha sauce on everything! but I think I'm a little more picky. Oh wait, I did try Juan's tea eggs. I was not impressed by a hard boiled egg cooked in tea lol...but to each his own.
Sunday I went to The Rye Bar and grill in Rye New york for My aunt and uncles 50th wedding anniversary party. Well, lets get right to the business at hand, i was not impresses with the service in regards to the food,  but those waiters sure kept those drinks flowing. I'm almost positive that was my cousins fault. He probably told them to hold off on the food order for a while so that held everything up. I had a goat cheese salad for an appetizer. It had obviously been sitting around underneath the kitchen lights for quite some time because when it arrived to the table it ws warm. Now I know how to read and it clearly said  goat cheese salad. Not a warm got cheese salad. My entre was salmon with spinach and potatoes. The sauteed spinach was the best thing on the plate. The potatoes were cut in thick slices. Ive honestly never seen potatoes cut that way. It almost looked like a scalloped potato that missed the mark. There were three on the plate that were undercooked. They were straight up like card board. I did not eat them and I didn't even bother to send them back. By that point I was just itching to leave and go to whole foods.(my favorite place in the whole wide world!)