How does it compare to the US locations, if you’ve been?
I’ve tried the Berkley and WeHo locations; both good, but not dying to go back.
Honestly, can’t bring ourselves to pay US prices, so never tried in US. This meal, including one LG beer came to usd$20.01/all in for the both of us. I’m guessing this is about the cost for a single bowl back home? This is in Kyushu, where Tonkotsu and the world-wide chains started.
This meal was only 9 hours ago. Now we’re deciding on breakfast. She wants Ichiran!?!? I’m like, ahhh……. DW wants to do a ramen stepladder. sigh
I’ll just have to do an Asahi vs Sapporo vs Kirin comparison. 
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Happy wife, happy life.
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Wow! The pizza really is quite good, but I’m not sure if it’s THAT good. Maybe just the novelty of it all? Our little college town has a lot of pizza, but 95% of it is garbage - low bar.
That said, I would’ve enjoyed that pizza in any situation and location, despite my preference for a (good!) Neapolitan :-), but it would probably not be my first choice.
OTOH, I can’t imagine pickles w/garlic sauce on a Neapolitan 'za 
I will let you know at some point when I actually get a taste of it. We don’t really live that close to Seattle, so it’ll likely happen the next MLB season.
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Last of the leshta/lentil soup
served with feta/kalamata olives/hot pickled peppers and freezer fresh baguette. No lemon on hand so a splash of red wine vinegar for added brightness.
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Chicken parm calzone from the local joint, with some green salad and wine. Off tomorrow, today is my Friday!
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I was supposed to go to the movies tonight but I had to pick up my last CSA of the season this afternoon and I got a really big basket of veggies today. I ran into an old school friend on the way there whom I hadn’t seen in a year and a half and he insisted on updating me on his life by inhaling then updating me in one long run on sentence. When I finally picked up my veggies and unpacked everything there wasn’t enough time to make it to the movie theater on time so I made pasta with stirfried veggies then curled up on the sofa with a tv dinner and called it a day.
Dinner:
Kale, peppers and garlic from my CSA.
Leeks, broccoli and Brussels sprouts.
Carrots, acorn squash and butternut squash.
A thank you bonus for the CSA customers. Potatoes, onions and a decorative squash.
I guess I won’t be buying groceries for awhile
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Sprouts, leeks and carrots look great. It would be a roast-a-thon at my house.
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Sauteed b/s chicken breast, with s/p and dried thyme, a sploosh of wine added to the pan.
Lemon-pepper sauced pappardelle with peas alongside.
And wine.
A pic of the boyz relaxing this morning while I got ready for work. About as close as they’ll ever get to cuddling.
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I had shrimp and cooked basmati rice to use up so I made Maunika Gowardhan’s Marathi Kolambi Bhaat, which I guess is a sort of pilau of cooked basmati rice folded into shrimp that have been cooked in tomatoes, warm spices (asafoetida, cinnamon, cloves, green cardamom, cumin, and bay leaves), a ground masala (she suggests goda masala but says garam masala is ok. I used a Konkani style koli masala and added toasted coconut), onion, ginger, and garlic. It’s a large recipe and even halving it, I think I still have about 2 servings left. I served it with steamed cauliflower and some mint-cilantro chutney.
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Swordfish was great, capers were seriously over-frizzled which I didn’t realize could happen but it sure did. Crusty bread was eh. Salad from the last farmers market of the season was terrific. Sad FM season is over.
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Rainy day but I’m not complaining. We need it! Hamburger stew and jalapeño cheddar/MJ mix cornbread. Buttered. With hot honey. And he’s exhausted after a long day.
P.S. - We are really enjoying the Dooky Chase show on Create.
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Bowl buddies yet?
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They each get their own bowl for can cat, but dry cat drops into a single bowl on a timer, and they both shove their heads in there to get their share of crunchies.
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The one on the bottom should be the Sphinx for Halloween! 
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Which is the newbie?
Potstickers from scratch, including the wrappers. Filling comprised of ground pork, minced shrimp, chopped cabbage, scallions, ginger, garlic, egg, sesame oil, etc. Dipping sauce made of sweet soy, rice vinegar, garlic, ginger and scallions. Served with steamed rice and chili crisp.
I’m all for potstickers anyway I can get them, including frozen, but nothing beats freshly made.
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Finnegan (a.k.a. Finn, Finny, Mr. Man, Handsome Boy, Big Mao-Mao) is the relaxed dude in the back. That’s his go-to spot on my bed after breakfast.
Murphy (Murph, Murphster, Little Man, Little Mao-Mao) is the one up front with the scar on his nose (perhaps received in a street tussle before being adopted?)
You can see their color differential a bit more in this pic: Finny is a buff with no real markings, and Murph is much more orange with definitive stripes, although theyre still hard to see in this pic.
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I would double plus one if I could. Homemade potstickers and dipping sauce. Yum. As my granddaughter would say. Good job.
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