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Nov. 17th, 2006 11:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miko2Got up. Eventually went to the crafts store across the street where I got a small sketch book, an xacto knife, and a straight edge (a purple plastic ruler). I was following Nara and Ali about so we headed to the mall, and eventually decided to eat at a place called Stir Crazy. This place was amazing -- a humongous menu with lots of Chinese dishes of all kinds including Sezchuan, some Japanese dishes, some Thai, some Vietnamese, and even a Mongolian-style assemble it yourself grill. Pan-Asian in every possible way, and not only was everything we tried amazingly delicious but the presentations were also fantastic and the service was fast, efficient, and very friendly. I couldn't recommend this place enough.
We had pot stickers and I had Thai Red Curry Chicken (a favorite). Ali had a wonderful blackened tuna filet that came with, among other things, pickled ginger, and Nara had sea bass that tasted phenomenal, and came with tempura green beans (also wonderful) and had thai tea.
After that I followed them around the mall, spending several hours there. We bought some things in the Rainforest Cafe store including a couple of slingshot monkeys and a cheap panda teddy bear for the Tai-Pan table. We got a couple of stuffed animals at another kiosk and I got some tea from a really nice high quality tea store.
I finally wound up at the Tai-Pan table after the dealer's room had opened at 3pm. I brought some chocolates to set out on the table -- dark chocolate hershey's kisses, and caramel and truffle hershey's kisses. As Gene pointed out, their so-called "dark chocolate" doesn't really qualify for the term, but this didn't stop him from eating several.
At one point I launched the slingshot monkey at Nara and it hit something on a table which then fell over. It wasn't a huge impact, the thing was just easily tipped over, but I felt bad. I felt less bad the more the guy behind the table went on and on and on about how I'd nearly destroyed the object and it was no longer capable of being displayed and I should pay for it... as if I'd taken a baseball bat to it. What was this object? A hanging candle holder made of chain... sort of a globe shape with a place inside to place a candle (he had an electric one inside). He claimed I'd broken it and that a link of the chain was missing... and he couldn't fix it, although he set to work on it right away and had it back on display soon after. In any case I didn't see where the missing link was on the table anywhere and didn't see how it falling over could have broken a metal link in a chain... nor did I think that if it were that easily broken it could be worth buying anyway. Basically the guy was a jerk and I lost my sympathy pretty quickly, and the topper was when I realized that one of the two kids running terrorizing the dealer's room was his.
His kid ate a lot of our chocolate. I think he wound up on a large sugar buzz.
I bought some art and a con tee shirt, and we had an expensive dinner at the con restaurant but it was good. Our Tai-Pan reading went well, we had four people to listen and they're all Tai-Pan fans. We went to dinner with one of them and had a nice conversation. I'd post more... but Give Me The Brain is calling...
We had pot stickers and I had Thai Red Curry Chicken (a favorite). Ali had a wonderful blackened tuna filet that came with, among other things, pickled ginger, and Nara had sea bass that tasted phenomenal, and came with tempura green beans (also wonderful) and had thai tea.
After that I followed them around the mall, spending several hours there. We bought some things in the Rainforest Cafe store including a couple of slingshot monkeys and a cheap panda teddy bear for the Tai-Pan table. We got a couple of stuffed animals at another kiosk and I got some tea from a really nice high quality tea store.
I finally wound up at the Tai-Pan table after the dealer's room had opened at 3pm. I brought some chocolates to set out on the table -- dark chocolate hershey's kisses, and caramel and truffle hershey's kisses. As Gene pointed out, their so-called "dark chocolate" doesn't really qualify for the term, but this didn't stop him from eating several.
At one point I launched the slingshot monkey at Nara and it hit something on a table which then fell over. It wasn't a huge impact, the thing was just easily tipped over, but I felt bad. I felt less bad the more the guy behind the table went on and on and on about how I'd nearly destroyed the object and it was no longer capable of being displayed and I should pay for it... as if I'd taken a baseball bat to it. What was this object? A hanging candle holder made of chain... sort of a globe shape with a place inside to place a candle (he had an electric one inside). He claimed I'd broken it and that a link of the chain was missing... and he couldn't fix it, although he set to work on it right away and had it back on display soon after. In any case I didn't see where the missing link was on the table anywhere and didn't see how it falling over could have broken a metal link in a chain... nor did I think that if it were that easily broken it could be worth buying anyway. Basically the guy was a jerk and I lost my sympathy pretty quickly, and the topper was when I realized that one of the two kids running terrorizing the dealer's room was his.
His kid ate a lot of our chocolate. I think he wound up on a large sugar buzz.
I bought some art and a con tee shirt, and we had an expensive dinner at the con restaurant but it was good. Our Tai-Pan reading went well, we had four people to listen and they're all Tai-Pan fans. We went to dinner with one of them and had a nice conversation. I'd post more... but Give Me The Brain is calling...
