Tony "PepsiKolaNut" L.'s Profile

I've been here twice (twice!!!) and I won't wish their teriyaki upon my worse enemies. I was here with friends who thinks this is good -- or maybe they were trying to kill me... twice...

I do agree that it's cheap and the portions are pretty big, but it's a big heap of nasty. How can teriyaki turn so wrong?

I've been here several times with my coworkers for lunch. It's alright for lunch -- something different. Don't expect too much from the food though, it's nothing to yelp home about. I would never eat here unless someone drags me :P

They have a good variety of veggies, meat, sauces, and weird stuff. The funny thing is, no matter how I put in the different sauces, it always tastes the same! If you were totally clueless as I was, they have instructions on what and how much of each sauce to put. And don't worry about making a mistake because you won't taste your mistake! All that sauce gets spilled out of the grill anyway when they're cooking it -____-

I was starving, but I was determined to try out this joint which I saw on the way to Ikea, so I drove all the way down to Kent. The moment I walked in, I thought --
Holy crap this is the fanciest looking Vietnamese restaurant evarrRR. I felt a bit uncomfortable dining alone because it looked so fancy, but screw it I need to feeed!

I had the special rice plate. It comes with a bunch of stuff I never really liked but they made it so good :b....
It came with:
- a tasty pork chop! I tend to not like pork chops because sometimes it's dry and rough and bland. This is none of those things and I love it!
- The egg rolls. Egg rolls?? *gag*. But their egg rolls were hella good!
- Fish sauce - I hate fish sauce because it smells bad and tastes funny. Theirs didn't smell bad or taste funny. I pour that stuff all over the plate and it was heaven. Now that I think about it, maybe it's not fish sauce...
- The shrimp - well, the shrimp was a bit bland.
- the sugar cane - holy crap what am i supposed to do with this thing in a fancy looking restaurant??!! Gnaw off bits, chew, grunt, spit, repeat! No, I sucked on it politely, with little bit of gnawing and muffled grunts.

I had my wisdom teeth taken out with Dr Crinzi. When I was trying to figure out who to go to, I asked everyone I know and he comes so highly recommended that it seemed like he's the best oral surgeon in all the world!

When I first met him and shook his hands, I thought, "so that's a surgeon's hands." The shake was uniquely strong and steady, but gentle. Everyone should find a surgeon and shake their hands! It's awesome. (If you get a dead fish or a crusher, run away!!)

But seriously, he's pretty good. Aside from my cheeks looking fat for a few days, I got Zero pain from the whole process. I didn't even have to use the pain killers (I'm saving the Vicodin for a special occasion?). He calls that same night and daily for the next 3 days to answer any questions and scheduled weekly followups with me for the next 3 weeks to make sure it's healing right.

Nintendo is GREAT!
But the Nintendo visitor center is... uhh.. lame.

I visited Nintendo America HQ expecting something great at their visitor center, but was so disappointed when I found myself in a smallish room of about 200sq ft -- that's roughly the size of 2 offices. How can you fit the greatness of Nintendo in 2 offices??!! Shame on you, Nintendo!

I found out that back in the day, they started out making playing cards and Mah Jong sets. How about that!

Their tire center is pretty great. I ended up getting my new set of tires there, and their staff knew all about the tires they're selling. I quizzed them on all the tires I researched and they were right on point. I had to special order the tires on Monday night and they said that it would arrive on "Thurs or Fri." I was a bit worried because I really needed to use my car on Friday night, but sure enough, they called me on Friday morning and got it installed. I love it when people come through!

Being a single yuppie, you would think that there's nothing for me at Costco -- what am I going to use 10 pk of toothpaste for??? ha! There are actually plenty of reasonable stuff I get from Costco and they're all quality. A lot of their things are really not as big as people make it out to be. Some of what I like to get are:

1 lb boxes of ready-to-eat organic baby spinach (or mixed veggies) for 3.99!!! READY TO EAT!!! NO WASHING!!! YESSSSSSSSSS!!! I can munch on it, cook it, munch on it while cooking food, munch on it while cooking it... the possibilities are endless.

Vitamin Gummies. The bottle is just slightly bigger than normal. I never forget to take my vitamin gummies :b.... The childproof lid is also great to keep my coworkers at bay.

Kirkland brand trash bags -- Somehow these are my favorite trash bags. What? You don't have a favorite trash bag?

Canned Dole pineapples and other canned fruits. Fresh fruits? BAH! maybe cuties!

Champion socks!! These are the greatest socks of all time. They stay soft and elasticky for evar! When my shoes are off, I've had people come up to me and say, "hey! Champion socks... from Costco?" *high five*

Box of 20 Mrs. May's Trio bars :b...............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

... and all sorts of other junk like Dishwashing liquid, 6pk Organic chicken broth, shampoo, 6pk handsoap, shower gel, wine, my heater!!, Infinite supply of paper towels and toilet paper (sometimes not so infinite)

This is where I get my massage. Hunching over the computer all day and yelping all night gets me all knotted up. And every time that happens, they fix me up so I can walk straight again! yay! My massage therapist automagically finds all the crazy painful tight spots as if she's a mind reader. Ahh what would I do without dream clinic :O

This is the most ridiculously clueless auto shop I've ever encountered.

I went in wanting to get a new set of tires. I knew exactly what I wanted and I wanted to see if they have any in stock. Simple question. Should be in n out. This is what happened:

1. I called. After many rings, they answered and immediately put me on hold for 10 mins and then I hung up.

2. I went to the store and there was no one at the front desk. I went into the shop and found 2 employees (one of them looks like the manager maybe?) helping 1 customer to finish up the paperwork, which consisted of signing, ripping off the sides, and handing a carbon copy to the customer. The manager was fumbling with the paperwork so badly that it looked like the 2 sheets were somehow going to explode out of his hands. After doing the worse tear-job in all of history, he was unable to separate the carbon copy. Finally, out of mental frustration, he dropped the half attached and badly torn paperwork on the desk like a hot potato and hoped that it would separate. The whole process took a good 20 mins.

You'd think that's the end of it. You'd think that the customer can go home now -- nope. They couldn't find her keys. Poor girl.

3. Now back to me. I wanted tires.
me: "Hi, I'm looking for the Michelin Pilot Sport."
sales: "Michelin? sure we have that."

He pulled up the list of Michelin tires that fits my car. The problem is, the list consisted of brand, tire size, and a model NUMBER, but no names of the actual models.

me: "Okay, which one is the Pilot Sport?"
sales: "The what? These are Michelins."
me: "Yes, these are Michelins. I want a specific model."
sales: "It's Michelin. They're all the same quality."
me: "Fine. If they're all the same, why are there so many models?"

I could see on his face that he had just experienced a moment of enlightenment -- but the moment went away just as quickly as it came.

sales: "How about this one? This one has a 90,000 mi warranty. If I were to get one, I'd get that"

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So, in the end, we never figured out if they have the tires I wanted. They still don't even know what tires they're selling despite the fact that tires is their main business at the auto center. They are still utterly confused as to why I would want a specific model. And I still wouldn't want them to touch my car even if they had the tires I wanted.

After coming back from my thanksgiving trip to San Diego, I realized how much I miss good Mexican food. If only I could get tacos in Seattle just like the ones in San Diego! I enlisted the help of fellow yelpers in the forum and Amy W. pointed me to Uncle Leo's mexican food list.

After seeing "Lard" in his review, I knew that I had to eat here. IMMEDIATELY (hey, there's lard! Lard!!! How can it not be good?!!)

When I got there, they had music bumping. A friendly lady checked my ID carefully and then asked for $5. I was confused -- am I at the right place? Turns out they were having some dancing thing at the time. I asked if I can just order to go.

I ordered 1 spicy beef taco (? something like that) and 1 (beef?) tongue taco at $1.50 each (ask for corn tortilla instead of flour!) and 4 rolled tacos which includes rice at $4.99.

Their tacos make me happy! They remind me of the tacos I had in Rosarito just south of the border. mmmm so good :b..... The rolled tacos are okay and the rice that came with it is very good.

The "road trip" from Bothell to Burien was totally worth it. I might go again tomorrow.

Update: Their chips... they're... amazing.... :b...................

I had dinner here for the first time yesterday for the "Dine Around Seattle" (aka 25 for $25, except it's $30 now). I've always wanted to go try out this restaurant and this seemed like a good opportunity.

This restaurant totally feels high class. The view is great and most of the tables seem to be by the window.

For the 3 course dinner, I had:
appetizer - crab cake
entree - lamb shank
dessert - chocolate cake
misc - cheese, crackers

Our food probably took 30+ minutes to come. In the meantime, the servers gave us something to snack on: 2 slices of cheese with fruit topping of some sort which was absolutely delicious, and after a while, some crackers -- at which point we start to wonder where are our appetizers and what's going on in the kitchen. For those of you who are fans of the FOX TV series Hell's Kitchen, I was imagining such a scene in the kitchen of YBG.

Anyway, by the time we got our food, we were so hungry we could eat a cow.

For the appetizer is a single crab cake, which I precisely measured to be 1" in diameter and 1/2" thick, of all-crab goodness. It's nice, but small.

For the entree, the lamb shank was... well... slightly bigger then the crab cake. "I finished my beer before my entree," said my hungry friend, "something is wrong."  The entree, really, should have been the appetizer. It also wasn't anything special to justify its freakish smallness. I can get something much tastier from the Whole Foods hot food bar.

Finally, the chocolate cake, which was warm and not-too-sweet, was delicious.