One part of my very large birthday lunch at Javier’s Cantina and Grill at Crystal Cove in Newport Beach, CA.

Wahoo’s Fish Taco is so yummy. It’s simple food that tastes good. I’ve already eaten at the Wahoo’s located at Fashion Island, South Coast Plaza, and Costa Mesa 2. This past week I was able to try Wahoo’s outside of Southern California at the San Jose location of Wahoo’s at Santana Row. As usual, I got the Maui Bowl, which is carne asada marinated in Teriyaki over steamed, seasoned white rice with black beans. It also comes with salsa on top of the carne asada, but since A does not like salsa we opted to get it on the side in a bowl. A, my cousin D, and I shared an order of jumbo fries and a Maui bowl. It was absolutely delicious and filling. From my experience, the good thing about the food at Wahoo’s Fish taco is it always tastes the same, something I can always count on.

This is how it comes…

with the salsa on the side…

but I love mixing everything together!

Absolutely delicious.

(sorry, but no pics here.  my reflex to grab chopsticks was much quicker than my reflex to grab the camera.)

The Supplies

The Cooking

The Dinner

What you probably didn’t know about my attempt to make dinner

A and I bought two bags of pasta and a can of alfredo sauce to make dinner for two nights.  A figured that a bag of pasta + half a can of sauce = dinner for one night.  A, however, didn’t realize that “half a can of sauce” would only be enough for half a bag of pasta.  After eating a forkful of semi-sauced pasta, A and I decided to dump our pasta back into our pot and add the remainder of the sauce to our pasta.  After this second attempt to make dinner, our pasta was now a bit more edible though it lacked any spices to make it like the good ‘ol pasta that we get cooked for us at home.  All in all, we somehow survived through this dinner.  (As a side note, we did have enough leftoever pasta for dinner the next night, but we made the call instead to return to our take-out dinners.  As for the extra bag of pasta we had bought, it made for a nice souvenir for the real cooks at home.)

The delivery was fast!  The portions were huge!  The quality of the food was great!  This ended up being our meal for two nights instead of one and we were stuffed both times.  As a side note, the pasta was much better than the calzone and they were generous with the serving of fries.

Hands down the best Chinese food I have ever had in Cleveland.  Chopstick was a quick walk (five to ten minutes) in the snow from the Glidden House and it definitely was worth it.  Most single dishes were $4.95 and the portions were definitely fair.  I highly recommend General Tsao’s Chicken.  Best choice ever!

God was smiling down on me and made sure that I did not have any flight delays at the O’Hare Airport in Chicago, which in the weeks prior had canceled 200+ flights due to weather.  Since it was A’s first time in Chitown, we opted to get some good ‘ol deep dish pizza from Uno at the airport while waiting for our connecting flight.

Verdict:  A did not see what all the fuss was about and I can’t really blame her.  This was not on par with the deep dish pizza I had at Giordorno’s last time I was here.

Solution:  We supplemented our pizza with chicken mcnuggets from McDonald’s.