A Visit from BoingDragon: Food and Movies
Aug. 15th, 2015 10:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tuftearsAnother in my "it is obviously Tufty's mission in life to make people hungry" set of posts! This time, let's cover a couple of outing when ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
boingdragon was out in this part of the woods.
First of all, you might recall that I mentioned wanting to try the Stone Bowl Curry from the Curry House in a previous entry. Well, whenboingdragon came out and expressed interest in the cheeseburger curry after I showed him pictures, it seemed like a good opportunity to do so. So, behold!
It was served with some green tea soda. Interesting, but I don't think I'll try that stuff again.
You're supposed to pour the gravy liberally into the bowl. I decided to hold off for a bit; based on some of the reviews I'd seen, the idea is that the very, very hot stone bowl cooks the rice into crispiness, then you stir it in and you get nice little crackly nuggets in the rice.
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Well, maybe that works if you use white rice. With brown rice, the results weren't that great. Still, it was a worthwhile experiment! Also, I'd probably get hamburger or some other 'moist meat' rather than a chicken tonkatsu; I fear that the high heat of the stone bowl dries out tonkatsu. This is ameliorated by pouring the sauce on liberally, but I feel it should be tasty without the gravy.
We got to see the new and improved theater lounger seating at the Century Cinemas on Shoreline! Behold the Comfy:
What's weird is that you have to reserve seats now when you buy tickets online... The reserved areas are way in front. So if you want 'middle' seats as I'm accustomed to, you need to pick seats in the back of the available area. The above areas were presumably for people who bought their tickets at the counter.
We saw two movies whileboingdragon was out here:
Inside Out. The Pixar movie where feelings have feelings. Yeah. It was pretty solid. Pixar knows how to work those emotions while not feeling trite. Good balance of humor and seriousness.
Mad Max: Fury Road. Hooo boy. I don't really remember the previous movie, but no previous knowledge is required to appreciate this post-apocalyptic movie that plays as if someone had brought all those old 80s rock album covers to life in a no-holds-barred deathmatch.
boingdragon was out in this part of the woods.First of all, you might recall that I mentioned wanting to try the Stone Bowl Curry from the Curry House in a previous entry. Well, when
boingdragon came out and expressed interest in the cheeseburger curry after I showed him pictures, it seemed like a good opportunity to do so. So, behold!It was served with some green tea soda. Interesting, but I don't think I'll try that stuff again.
You're supposed to pour the gravy liberally into the bowl. I decided to hold off for a bit; based on some of the reviews I'd seen, the idea is that the very, very hot stone bowl cooks the rice into crispiness, then you stir it in and you get nice little crackly nuggets in the rice.
...
Well, maybe that works if you use white rice. With brown rice, the results weren't that great. Still, it was a worthwhile experiment! Also, I'd probably get hamburger or some other 'moist meat' rather than a chicken tonkatsu; I fear that the high heat of the stone bowl dries out tonkatsu. This is ameliorated by pouring the sauce on liberally, but I feel it should be tasty without the gravy.
We got to see the new and improved theater lounger seating at the Century Cinemas on Shoreline! Behold the Comfy:
What's weird is that you have to reserve seats now when you buy tickets online... The reserved areas are way in front. So if you want 'middle' seats as I'm accustomed to, you need to pick seats in the back of the available area. The above areas were presumably for people who bought their tickets at the counter.
We saw two movies while
boingdragon was out here:Inside Out. The Pixar movie where feelings have feelings. Yeah. It was pretty solid. Pixar knows how to work those emotions while not feeling trite. Good balance of humor and seriousness.
Mad Max: Fury Road. Hooo boy. I don't really remember the previous movie, but no previous knowledge is required to appreciate this post-apocalyptic movie that plays as if someone had brought all those old 80s rock album covers to life in a no-holds-barred deathmatch.
