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Saturday morning, I went up to Berkeley to interview two Korean families for my thesis. Korean children are the cutest little people ever, so my morning was already perked up just from working with them, and when the families invited me to stay for lunch, my day was pretty much made - a home-cooked Korean meal with two lovely families?! I like research.
The meal was simple and delicious - a cabbage soup, rice, beef bulgogi, spicy pork bulgogi, and banchan - and it was almost like being back home…a little over a month before I go home for the first time since last winter!
After leaving their house, I decided to explore the area a bit before heading back home, just to make the most out of the long drive. I was walking along a quaint little road when I smelled something realllyyyy good - real New York-style pizza. Um, I mean, I didn’t recognize the pizza as real New York-style from the smell (although that would have been seriously impressive), but I smelled something delicious and pizza-like, walked into the small, busy Gioia Pizzeria, and saw legit New York-style pizzas.
Yeah. Anyway.
I was still a bit hungry (I’m always awkward about eating a lot when I’m a guest), so I decided to get a sausage slice ($3.50), although all of the pizzas looked pretty great.
LOOKS GOOD, HUH.
Soo…I’ve been really busy. Between school, work, and job-hunting, I haven’t had much free time to keep up here, but I’ll try to start writing more again, it’s good for me. And for you.
Friday night, a bunch of us took Yi’s friend from high school out to dinner at Garden Fresh, the vegan Chinese restaurant. Despite it being Friday night, we managed to get a table for our eight person beast of a group, and after we placed our order, the waitress brought out cups of corn soup. FO’ FREE.
I never complain about anything that’s free, and it was super nice of them to just give us eight soups, so it was too bad the corn soup was about as good as this picture turned out - sort of a lukewarm, bland, corn-starchy soup-ish liquid. The last time we came, I had the hot-and-sour soup, which was actually decent, so if you go for a soup, go for the hot-and-sour. Look at me, dishing knowledge left and right. I’ll learn all of you yet.