Cooking Experiment: Peanut Butter & Chocolate Chip Cookies (mk II)

It's been a while since I last made peanut butter & chocolate chip cookies so I figured I'd give it another try!

This is more or less the recipe I used:

Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies

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Not Always My Cooking: Ryowa Ramen's Chashu Don

The other day, dracosphynx happened to be in my neck of the woods so we met up for dinner. "Suggest somewhere for us to eat?" I pleaded of chipotle, who is a 'yote what knows food. Among the various options, Ryowa Ramen cropped up as the most interesting (and importantly for misercats, inexpensive) choice.

So we traipsed down there. It's only a block off of Castro Street (Mountain View, not San Francisco) and it looks like an utter hole in the wall, the sort of shop you'd find in deep Japantown, San Jose, or Chinatown, San Francisco, but there was a line of people waiting to get in! Hmm. While we waited, I peered about and espied a manga collection within the shop. Awesome! In Japanese, alas, so I wasn't about to flip through them. They also had two TVs set to a Japanese obstacle course game show.

They actually asked us what we wanted to eat a few minutes before we got to sit down! Given how many people they had waiting, it seemed pretty reasonable. When we got seated, it was at one of the U-shaped tables, which provide room for the waitresses to move around behind them and serve the customers. They brought barley tea, and soon... Food!

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