Boke Bowl, near Portland, Oregon’s Pearl District, is a hip and happening lunch spot with a modern fusion take on ramen. Literally flooded with hipster elderly and hipster children with everything in between, Boke offers a caramelized fennel dashi or char sieu prok steam buns. In my personal opinion, whichever ramen bowl you order, adding in tofu is definitely worth the extra $2 (I mean, if you’re already there and paying that much for ramen) because of the marinade. I’ve heard that the pork belly could be better and the fried pie feels like an attempt at glorifying McDonald’s apple pie, out of the hot-pockets shape. If I was only going to order one thing to re-inspire my taste buds, I would pick the Warm brussels sprouts, cauliflower, citrus, house tofu croutons with Thai vinaigrette ($8). I should really figure out how to make this at home. It’s very small and I suspect high salt and oil content, but the cauliflower actually carries flavor. Have you had a fried everything salad before?

Thai Sweet Basil was light on the basil, a little heavy on the chili and the oil, but maybe your tummy is stronger than mine. Overall, fun and fresh presentation, though. Their pinapple fried rice even comes in a pinapple shell!

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The trek across Los Angeles is not for those in a rush.

It was fun to try a new restaurant in a new part of town. Hopefully, we can do more of that during DineLA restaurant week!

I could use some delicious spinach naan bread and mango curry paneer from Taste of India in Seattle’s U-district (with their excellent service) right about now. My best ex-roommate friend treated me to lunch here last month. Did I tell you that food tastes better when you’re eating with with people dear to your heart?

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Tandoori chicken

If you haven’t come around to making resolutions yet, you’re not a day too late. Happy Lunar New Year! The post linked above was fodder for thought on the kind of new year’s resolutions I want to be making. I used to closet-purge or get a new haircut, but if I want to see a new, better me, why not start change on the inside? Plus, this kind should last longer than trying to wash the dishes faster or finish the unsightly rug project I started a couple years ago. (I would still like to conquer my slight arachnophobia – I squished a few baby spiders last night. You’d think that baby anything would mean a cuter version, right? Yeah, no. While humans, kittens, and maybe even baby aardvarks work with my general theory, those spiders did not last long. Squishing the miniscule thingys felt a little too heartless, so I tried anti-spider-spray and that was just sad. I was just too afraid that they would grow into big spiders, like the kind I’ve found on my ceiling this week, crawling all over me in my sleep. See? I need to work on this.)

God is more interested in where our hearts dwell than where our activities take us.

- Bob Goff

Dieu est plus intéressé par où demurent nos coeurs que où nos activités nous emmenent.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.

-Winston Churchill

Le succès n’est pas définitif, l’échec n’est pas fatal, c’est le courage de continuer qui compte.

…live life intentionally. You and I get one chance to do this, one lifetime to let God shine big through our time on earth

- Natalie Lloyd

… Vis ta vie intentionnellement. Toi et moi, nous n’avons qu’une seule chance de faire cela, qu’une vie à laisser Dieu briller fort par notre temps sur la terre.

Seattle

When I get back, I’m excited to have dinner at home with my family. It’s going to be like Christmas, Thanksgiving and a birthday rolled into one.

I want to go eat at Fresh Bistro and then take a pint of Snoqualmie Gourmet gelato to the park and just stare at the city skyline. And then, we’ll go take shadow pictures at the concrete park until it gets too chilly and we have to go indoors to watch Bride and Prejudice for the 47th time. (Ok, ok, I lost count. In English and in French.)

I would like to get my hair cut at Seven (it’s been two and a half months and I am itching for a trim). Then I want to wander the grocery store in my high heels. We shall go home and make peanut butter and banana sandwiches before playing the piano and painting. Then, we’ll bake a mountain of cookies.